Prosystem & cmd wrapper Help

[Slope]

Prosystem is an Atari 7800 emulator (https://home.comcast.net/%7egscottstanton/).  I got Howard's Command-Line wrapper to close the program with the ESC key.  It was actually much easier than I thought.

The problem I have is: if I run the emulator without the wrapper, it will go full screen, etc.  If I run it with the wrapper it won't look to the "Prosystem.ini" so it isn't going full screen.  Is there a way to fix that?

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

[Howard_Casto]

It sounds like, for whatever reason, the path isn't being changed to the 7800 directory. 

First off the wrapper needs to be in the same folder as the exe (It shouldn't even work if not, but just in case.)

Secondly your front end needs to be changing the path internally.  If it's coded well then this shouldn't even be an issue, but if it's not, then unfortunately, you are screwed. 


I'm not too familiar wth the prosystem emulator, but if you want to post yoru lconfig.ini and some more data, maybe I can help. 

Hope that helps,
HAC

[Slope]

Thanks for your willingness to help....

I do have the cmd-wrapper in the same directory as the emulator (thought I had to after I looked at the configs - turns out I was right

I have attached my lconfig.ini as lconfig.txt (thought it was too big to copy and paste here).

Here's my atari780.cfg

extension=.a78
path=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Emulators\ProSystem
exe=cmd-launch7.exe
send rom path=0
send exit keys=1
command line options;--use-config-file=atari780.cfg

Here's my prosystem.ini just in case you needed/wanted to see that too...

[Recent]
Recent0=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\Asteroid.a78
Recent1=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\xevious.a78
Recent2=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\Xenophob.a78
Recent3=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\WINTERGA.A78
Recent4=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\WATERSKI.A78
Recent5=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\TOWERTOP.A78
Recent6=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\titlemat.a78
Recent7=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\TANKCMD.a78
Recent8=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\suprhuey.a78
Recent9=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Roms\SUMMERGA.A78
[Display]
Fullscreen=true
Mode.Height=600
Mode.Width=800
Mode.BPP=8
Palette.Default=true
Palette.Filename=
Stretched=true
Zoom=1
[Sound]
Mute=false
Sample.Rate=44100
Latency=1
[Emulation]
Region=2
Frame.Skip=0
Bios.Filename=
Bios.Enabled=false
Database.Filename=P:\Emulator\Atari780\Emulators\ProSystem\ProSystem.dat
Database.Enabled=true
[Input]
Key0=205
Key1=203
Key2=208
Key3=200
Key4=45
Key5=44
Key6=38
Key7=36
Key8=37
Key9=23
Key10=50
Key11=49
Key12=60
Key13=61
Key14=62
Key15=63
Key16=64
[Console]
Save.Path=
Window.Left=0
Window.Top=0
Window.Right=800
Window.Bottom=600

[Howard_Casto]

Are you using Dk?  Cause that cfg file is only vaild for dk, doesn't do anything on other emulators. 


Also that "--use-cfg-file=" line is a option sent to zinc, and THAT zinc.cfg refers to zinc's cfg file, and has nothing to do with dk's cfg file.  So unless you know something I don't that line needs to go. 



If you are using dk then I can assure you that it sets the path for you.  So it sounds like an emulator thing.  Try running it without the wrapper by using the command line to navigate to the path and launch it there with a romname.  If it doesn't use the ini then obviously it's an emualtor thing. 

[Slope]

Actually, I'm using MameWAH as my front-end.  When I saw it wasn't working right, I started using the cmd prompt, manually going to that directory and running everything via command line myself.  My theory was that way it would take all the "if you use this front-end" thing out of it (also I thought it would make the troubleshooting easier).

I'll try to remove that "--use-cfg-file=" when I get home and see if that helps.

Thanks again for your help.  I appreciate it a lot.

[Slope]

That's it!!!  That is so incredible.  Thank you so much for your help.

I do have one more newbie question...is there a way to change the exit key the cmd-wrapper is waiting for?  I thought there was, but now I can't find it.

Thanks again.

[Slope]

Nevermind.  I got it.

Thanks again Howard!!