MAME with Symbiface II and BonnyDOS

[egrath]

Hi,

has anyone managed to get MAME (0.276) running with a emulated Symbiface II and BonnyDOS? I struggle to set it up, maybe because I do something wrong (the most likely case) or it's not supposed to work.

What I've done:

1. Create a 20 MB IDE file with:

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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]chdman createhd -c none -chs 615,4,17 -o ide.hd[/font]
2. Run MAME with the following configuration:

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[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]mame cpc6128 \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-window \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-resolution0 1120x840 \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-lowlatency \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-keepaspect \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-video opengl \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-unevenstretch \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-uimodekey F11 \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-prescale 4 \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-filter \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-skip_gameinfo \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-upd765:0 3ssdd \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-upd765:1 35ssdd \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-exp rom \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-exp:rom:exp sf2 \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-hard 20mb.hd \[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]-romimage5 roms/cpc6128/ext/bdos172.rom \[/font]
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3. Use the System disc B side tool "disc" to partition the drive. Here the trouble starts: I'm able to partition the drive (one partition with maximum size) and save it. Everything seems fine, except for when reading back the configuration from the drive, the partition table is empty. Also just saving, rebooting and running "drvtest" shows "No drive".

Any clues?

With kind regards,
Egon

[egrath]

Sorry, messed the code section up:

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chdman createhd -c none -chs 615,4,17 -o ide.hd

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mame cpc6128 \
-window \
-resolution0 1120x840 \
-lowlatency \
-keepaspect \
-video opengl \
-unevenstretch \
-uimodekey F11 \
-prescale 4 \
-filter \
-skip_gameinfo \
-upd765:0 3ssdd \
-upd765:1 35ssdd \
-exp rom \
-exp:rom:exp sf2 \
-hard 20mb.hd \
-romimage5 roms/cpc6128/ext/bdos172.rom \

[Egg Master]

Very nice! I used BonnyDOS with the xmass expansion (4x32MB), it worked fine.
Unfortunately, the partitions wasn't readable from SymbOS, only from the BASIC.

[egrath]

Do you know if MAME supports X-Mass? I did not see it in the list of available slots (-listslots)

[mahlemiut]

Do you know if MAME supports X-Mass? I did not see it in the list of available slots (-listslots)

It does not.