Draugr Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Hi everyone. Is there a emulator for the Bally Astrocade that is made for the Raspberry Pi 1 or 2? I found MESS for Windows, but haven't found any info on an Astrocade emulator for the Raspberry Pi. Any info is appreciated. Thanks, John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckafka99 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Over at http://intellivision.us/raspberry/raspberry.phpthere is a set of files for RetroPie that includes AdvMame/Mess that will run the Astrocade emulator. It is also possible to use Bally controllers with RetroPie if one has the Astrodaptor USB adaptor. It does take a little bit to get it up and running; you have to be fairly comfortable working from the command line in linux and understand (reasonably well) how RetroPie is setup and runs things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Over at http://intellivision.us/raspberry/raspberry.phpthere is a set of files for RetroPie that includes AdvMame/Mess that will run the Astrocade emulator. It is also possible to use Bally controllers with RetroPie if one has the Astrodaptor USB adaptor. Thanks for that link! I never knew about this setup or the Ultimate PC Interface. Now I have a Raspberry Pi on my wishlist! Just in case you're not aware of this, the Astrocade emulation in MAME supports cartridges, but it has no tape input/output support for either 300 or 2000 BAUD tapes. For most people, this should be fine-- as all of the best games were released on cartridge and very few people have used any of the many hundreds of Astrocade programs available to type-in or load from a tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckafka99 Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Thanks for that link! I never knew about this setup or the Ultimate PC Interface. Now I have a Raspberry Pi on my wishlist! Just in case you're not aware of this, the Astrocade emulation in MAME supports cartridges, but it has no tape input/output support for either 300 or 2000 BAUD tapes. For most people, this should be fine-- as all of the best games were released on cartridge and very few people have used any of the many hundreds of Astrocade programs available to type-in or load from a tape. IntvDave here is the real one to thank; he made the files available. One can also run Fairchild Channel F on a Raspberry Pi as well. For me, these were the last two systems I really wanted to get up and running within RetroPie so that I could move my systems out of the living room (making wife happy). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Just in case you're not aware of this, the Astrocade emulation in MAME supports cartridges, but it has no tape input/output support for either 300 or 2000 BAUD tapes. "Baud" isn't an acronym. It's just baud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 ZylonBane, on 24 Feb 2016 - 6:17 PM, said: "Baud" isn't an acronym. It's just baud. Sure it's an acronym: Bane Acts Unnecessarily Dogmatic 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenjennings Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 I had thought "baud" was an abbreviation for "bits audible". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I figured it was someone's name involved in the early invention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballyalley Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I figured it was someone's name involved in the early invention. Baud is based on someone's name (a man named Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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