Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: ragnar on August 14, 2010, 02:16:38 am
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It took a while but I got Atari800WinPlus working. Getting actual roms takes time since the usual paths do not yield valid rom files. So after alot of snooping, I found that atariage hosts them.
Anyways, my issue. I got escape hotkeyed to exit Atari800WinPlus. It works as expected except that Atari800WinPlus has a confirmation dialog (Are you sure you want to exit? OK/Cancel) that prevents it from closing fully. Is there any way to over-ride this?
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Nevermind ... I had to find that stupid "confirm exit" checkbox. Duhhhhh
Happy to have my childhood emulated! Not that I don't already have 3 actual 5200s with trackball. I need new joysticks though.
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I also have Atari800 working on my cab (after a lot of headache) and use the Mala built in ESC wrapper to exit. Have you found a way to easily load and exit .atr images? The only format I can get to start and exit easily are .xex
I found a bunch here...
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Atari/8bit/games/xex (http://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=Atari/8bit/games/xex)
Alley Cat, Blue Max, Archon - all great with arcade controls :)
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I only have Atari 5200 games working. If your inquiry is in regard to this, I can help you out.
I am using the latest Atari800WinPlus (not Atari800). What I did was set hte Mala hot key to Alt-F4 instead of escape. So when escape is pressed, Mala catches it and sends an Alt-F4 command to Atari800WinPlus thus closing the application. Atari800WinPlus had a confrim exit dialog that you can turn off from within the Atari800WinPlus options.
As for getting ROMS working, I went to an atari specific web site that hosts actual rom images. I can link it later. Those work perfectly. Within Atari800WinPlus, I am going to have to convert those files to cart files. That way I can avoid the cart hardware selection dialog since cart files store that data. Atari800WinPlus can convert roms to cart format. If you are trying to emulate other Atari 8-bit hardware, you might be able to do something like this. Unfortunately, only the 5200 is on my todo list.
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Yes, I am also using Atari800Winplus, but I am using it exclusively for the 8-bit atari games, many of which were on disk which is where the cabinet friendly load/quit problems arise. I did convert rom files to cart too for a while to get around that kb? confirm box you mentioned, but I found using the .xex images was the easiest solution, and most of the games I wanted to play were already in that format at the link I pasted. Funny, the mala check box that asks to use 'esc' as exit works fine for me without having to hot key alt-f4.
Atarimania is a great resource if you haven't been there, and has a wealth of 5200 stuff.