Really dumb questions of a returner

[nouty]

Hey there,

I just received my new GameShell a few days ago after I sold my old Kickstarter one in December.

As I’m back and have been a long-time inactive here, I just have several questions, that could probably be easily answered with a few links to posts over here, but I haven’t found answers due to searching on my own, so maybe somebody could help out:

• I soft-broke my GameShell and had to reinstall the image again. Now the sd-card only shows 8 GB of storage instead of 16. How do I change this? Furthermore: Is there a special firmware for the new version with 1 gig of RAM?
• I have tried to use the preinstalled AMIGA-Emulator with a .uae-configuration and the Kickstarter ROM of the AMIGA 500, but it didn’t work out. Is there a guide for this?
• Is there a new guide for optimizing RetroArch since the old one seems to be outdated?

Sorry for my stupid questions and thanks a lot to all that will try to help me out or even succeed with it.

Wishes

PS: Really big props to the developers – the software and features have improved a lot since the last time I used GameShell. Really great to see that.

[Rebusmind]

Not really answering your questions, but I’ve made a custom image that has many standalone emulators pre-configured, which gives better performance. It uses v0.3, though (the newest OS version is v0.4).

Give it a look if that sounds useful to you. (it also touches on the subject of expanding the file system)

Custom GameShell image (v0.3) with standalone emulators

Hi everyone, as discussed in other threads, I was thinking about taking the base OS image and add the standalone emulators so that newcomers can get most systems running with improved perfomance by just adding games (and the odd bios file). This is purely aimed at people that just want to emulate games without tinkering with the system too much. It is still advised to get acquainted with the system itself if something goes wrong some time in the future. I’ve tried to keep changes to the image…

[guu]

Auto expand root fs os v0.4 img, it will expand the partition to be full size of sdcard

https://mega.nz/#F!IUkxQSjB!d_H9leVSSl6tDP4X0oWnag

cd ~/apps/Menu && git pull  && cd - 

to update the os v0.4 menu items, including AMIGA-Emulator

then the UAE can be loaded ,I tested the uae emulator with adf rom file

actually the UAE emulators has two arguments
-0 and -1

in os v0.4
I only use
/home/cpi/apps/emulators/uae4arm -0 to load adf rom file

[nouty]

Hey @guu, that worked out perfectly well. Thank you a lot. Really appreciate your work and your effort here.

[nouty]

@guu

to update the os v0.4 menu items, including AMIGA-Emulator

then the UAE can be loaded ,I tested the uae emulator with adf rom file

actually the UAE emulators has two arguments
-0 and -1

in os v0.4
I only use
/home/cpi/apps/emulators/uae4arm -0 to load adf rom file

Hm. The .adf-files load, but only to the loading screens. Then the screen turns black and nothing games. One game reminded me, that the system needs at minimum 1 mb of memory. Maybe that’s the issue?

[guu]

or maybe load the second adf ?
I don’t know a lot about UAE

[nouty]

Nope, they’re mostly single disk games.

Even if I place the .uae-file with the right kickstarter, it doesn’t do anything.

kickstart_rom_file=/home/cpi/games/UAE/kick31.rom
chipmem_size=1
bogomem_size=2
use_gui=no
nr_floppies=2
cpu_type=68000
cpu_speed=real
cpu_compatible=true
ntsc=false
chipset=ocs
immediate_blits=false
gfx_linemode=double
gfx_framerate=1
sound_output=normal
sound_frequency=22050
sound_channels=mixed
sound_interpol=none
show_leds=false
floppy_speed=100
gfx_center_vertical=smart
gfx_center_horizontal=smart
gfx_color_mode=16
floppy0=/home/cpi/games/UAE/Gamefile(OCS).adf

If I load games directly from the .adf file it shows me, that there isn’t enough additional memory, which should at least 1 mb. I think I have to expand the given memory of the emulator, but don’t know where I can do that.