Acorn Atom - Script needed

[Vicman]

Hi all,

It seems, that MESS does not really yet support the Acorn Atom Please, look here :

I can't find any other Windows-Emu for the Atom....

And so :
I need some Help to create a Script for the Arcon Atom Emulator(DOS-Emulator)

My Idea, to autorun the Games in eCC is :
1. I have exported all Games on the Tape-Images as *.ATM-Files to the eCC-romfolder. (so eCC can parse the dumps)
2. I have also created one new Tape-Image [*.Tap] ,with the DOS-Emulator, and copied all *.ATM's in it.
3. The new Tape-Image is in the same folder as the Emulator.

4. Now the Script has to do (only) this :
- start the DOS-Emulator with Dosbox
- type at the prompt : LO."Game-filename" (send Enter) and then type: RUN (send Enter)

That's it

Who can write this Script ?
Any other Ideas ?..... or maybe someone knows a working Win-Emu ?

Here are some Screenshots :

[te_lanus]

Hi vicman. I'll try, but could you upload everything (including the atm files), so that i know the script works

[Vicman]

Here you are.
Containing:
- "Test-Tape"-Image with 4 Games. (in the emu-folder)
- the 4 ATM's (in the ecc-rom-folder)
- Screenshots for eCC
- ecc-Datfile

Good Luck

[Phoenix]

Hi Vicman,

I got it almost ready, but i got an error, i think we're missing that....how does atom.exe know witch .TAP file to use??

[Phoenix]

Hi Vicman & CO.

You may want to try this script....but i think that atom.exe doesn't know wich TAP file to use, nevertheless here is the almost finished code

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; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; BEGIN OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDownDelay", 120)

Run($Emulator & " Atom.Exe")

WinWaitActive("DOSBox", "", 10)
Sleep(5000) ;give dosbox some time to load atom.exe
Send("LO.")
Send("@") ;@ = " (other codepage)
Send($eccFileRomNamePlain)
Send("@") ;@ = " (other codepage)
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(1000)
Send("RUN")
Send("{ENTER}")
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; END OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Vicman]

I got it almost ready, but i got an error, i think we're missing that....how does atom.exe know witch .TAP file to use??

The Solution is :
We only need one Tape-Image, and put all ATM-Files in this.
That should work

I'll try your script

[Vicman]

This Script doesn't work for me....
Only Dosbox starts, but it don't "mount" and start the DOS-Emulator....
Think you have to add something to the Script....

[Phoenix]

Hi Vicman,

You have to place the atom emulator and dosbox in the same folder

[Vicman]

Don't work
The Letters are written "revers" , ans the "quotation marks" are missing...
You have to fix the Script

[Vicman]

LO."FROGGER" has to be written in lowercase....(lo."frogger") and (run)
but, how to say to the script "Send($eccFileRomNamePlain)" in lowercase...

An other Solution :
I put : lo."frogger" into the Info-ID Field....
then send ENTER, RUN, ENTER....
but what is the string for the $ID-Info ?

[DerMicha75]

Hi Vicman,

try:

Send(StringLower($eccFileRomNamePlain))

Micha

[Vicman]

Hi Micha,

StringLower works

But still no quotation marks " (Anführungszeichen werden nicht geschrieben)

[Phoenix]

Quotations marks for this system on my computer is the @ (above number 2) > result: " .....but maybe this is under another location on your keyboard/codepage (this is a codepage issue)

maybe you should try "Chr(64)" (@) instead:

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Send(Chr(64))

so the most recent code will result in this:

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; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; BEGIN OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDownDelay", 120)

Run($Emulator & " Atom.Exe")

WinWaitActive("DOSBox", "", 10)
Sleep(5000)
Send("LO.")
Send(Chr(64))
Send(StringLower($eccFileRomNamePlain))
Send(Chr(64))
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(2000)
Send("RUN")
Send("{ENTER}")
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; END OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Vicman]

Sorry chr64 don't work....

on my Keybord the " are on Number "2" (shift+2)

btw.
Your Script above :
lo. and run in lowercase

[Vicman]

GOT IT
For me it's chr34
http://rmhh.co.uk/ascii.html

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; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; BEGIN OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDownDelay", 180)

Run($Emulator & " Atom.Exe")

WinWaitActive("DOSBox", "", 10)
Sleep(5000) ;give dosbox some time to load atom.exe
Send("lo.")
Send(Chr(34))
Send(StringLower($eccFileRomNamePlain))
Send(Chr(34))
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(1000)
Send("run")
Sleep(100)
Send("{ENTER}")
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; END OF SCRIPT
; ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks to all !

[Phoenix]

LOL, when i use "Chr(34)" i get "@" in this case (usual i also get ") , i have to use Chr(64) for this program though...

But how dit you load the proper TAP file?

[Vicman]

But how dit you load the proper TAP file?

Well, I have created my own TAP-File

1. When DOS-Emulator is loaded : Press F9 . Now, you can see all Tape-Images.
2. Go i.e. to the Tape-Image "Games1" . On the right hand you'll see the Games.
3. Now, select a Game-file and press E for exporting the File as *.ATM on your Harddisk.
4. Do this with every Game on each TAPE-Image
5. Now, create a Blank Tape-Image by typing N, and give it a Name, i.e. 001
6. Select your new Tape-Image, and go to the blank right panel.
7. Press i , for import *.atm-files . Now you see all atm's , you've exported to your Harddisk.
8. Select an ATM and press S to import this Dump to your blank TAP-Image....
9. Do this with all atm's.
10. Now, you have all Games on one Tape-Image