[Coco] Mame on debian wheezy

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 09:01:24 +0900
Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2018年9月30日(日) 7:48 Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>:
> 
> > On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 04:09:34 +0900
> > Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 2018年9月25日(火) 2:44 Christopher R. Hawks <chawks at dls.net>:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 01:00:06 +0900
> > > > Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I installed the packages I could find. Not sure I installed
> > > > > all the packages necessary on wheezy.
> > > > >
> > > > > I put coco3.rom and disk11.rom in a folder called coco3 in
> > > > > $HOME/mame/roms and tried running mame with no argument. It
> > > > > tells me no games found, check rom path.
> > > > >
> > > > > Putting a zipped archive of the same there gives me the same
> > > > > results.
> > > > >
> > > > > Running mame coco3 gives me unknown system coco3,
> > > > > approximately matches cobram3, sc2cops and a bunch of other
> > > > > stuff I'm not interested in.
> > > > >
> > > > > Mame -verifyroms gives me no matching games.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     Not 'in a folder called coco3 in $HOME/mame/roms' in the
> > > > folder "$HOME/mame/roms'.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Tried that, too.
> > >
> > > Is /usr/share/games/mame/hash supposes to have coco entries?
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > Joel (and all):
> >
> >     You did run 'mame -cc' in your $HOME/.mame directory to create
> > the initial config files?
> >
> >     Oh, and it's $HOME/.mame not $HOME/mame (on linux anyway).
> >
> 
> Well, I did a -createconfig, but not actually in ~/.mame .
> 
> But I just tried -cc in ~/.mame, and, while it does leave a mame.ini
> in the directory, nothing else changes. Still get the unknown system
> errors on "mame coco3", etc.
> 
> Is there something in mame.ini that needs to be set to something
> other than default?
> 
> >
> 

    Don't remember what the defaults were.
All the xxxxpath and xxx_directory options (except homepath) start with
$HOME/.mame like this:
 
homepath                  .
rompath                   $HOME/.mame/roms
hashpath                  $HOME/.mame/hash



Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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