Coleco Adam with Retroarch

[launchretrogirl2562]

let me try again.
I will download retroarch and install it completely fresh.
(together with the added instructions I sent you)

if that works for me...then it should also work for you
 

[launchretrogirl2562]

I need to go back to the drawing table.
Turns out, my config in electron.ini was too wide (top level directory to the software lists) and it was launching the dkong.zip from arcade. So not the electron.

That does not mean the settings I shared with you are all wrong.
Just that it needs some more tweaking.

When I fix this I will post here again.

[MaineBear]

Sounds good.  Thank you for your help!

[roughmech]

Hope this helps others. I recently just ran into the same issue getting .dsk game types to run using MAME thru Launchbox. I decided to go with a standalone emulator and ran across Virtual ADAM. It runs ADAMEm using DOSbox to make it compatible on Windows 64bit systems. I liked the DOSbox idea but Virtual Adam does not support command lines and requires all the game files to be in its roms directory, so how did I get it to work, bypassed what Virtual ADAM actually does. Virtual ADAM takes the game file you load in a drive and copies it to its temp deirectory as LDrive1.DSK, then it runs DOSrun.bat in its root directory which loads its own DOSbox with a preconfigured cofig file. To get this to work with Launchbox try the following

1. Download and install Virtual ADAM to the emulators, this is the website I got it from and confirmed its legit and works in Windows 11 https://adamarchive.org/archive.php?dir=%2FEmulators%2FColecoVision+%26+ADAM+Computer, make sure to select "Virtual ADAM v1.03 with NET Frameork Fix (2010) (Steve Pitman).zip" and click "DOWNLOAD"

2. I created LaunchADAM.bat in the Virtual ADAM directory 

LaunchADAM.bat

@echo off

copy /Y "%~1" "D:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Virtual Adam\Temp\LDrive1.DSK"

"D:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Virtual Adam\DOSBox-0.72\DosBox.exe" ^
-noconsole ^
-conf "D:\LaunchBox\Emulators\Virtual Adam\Vadam.cfg"

3. Setup the Virtual ADAM emulator. Notice the Application path, Default Command-Line Parameters, Check hide Console Window

4.Setup of the game, ADAMEm does not support zip so you have to unzip your files

5. Run your game in Launchbox

I have not tried all the games yet but thought this was a clean way to launch ADAM dsk images.