Native Commodore 64 core for Raspberry Pi?

[Fingerlickin_B]

Hi folks,

Has there been anything else like Commodore Pi developed?

I checked out Commodore Pi, however it's deveopment stalled some years ago before completion & from what I read, it doesn't work properly.

It would be great to have an RPI act like a C64

PZ.

[kamelito]

A PI is just a computer so just fire an emulator into it and you're done.
Kamelito

[Anubis]

Apart from RetroPie having installed vice C64 emulator, have you tried RPi Vice by itself??

http://elinux.org/RPi_VICE_C64_Emulator

If you want it to act as C64 from boot up, then just change starting program from EmulationStation to vice. (I remember someone doing the same with UAE)

[Cobe]

Did you ever managed to run Vice in full screen? I tried it with RetroPie and it works for me as long as I don't try scale x2 or similar, in that case it just returns to EmulationStation...

[Fingerlickin_B]

So the answer is pretty much "no...but".

Thanks Anubis for the positive reply though

PZ.

[john1979]

Originally Posted by Cobe

Did you ever managed to run Vice in full screen? I tried it with RetroPie and it works for me as long as I don't try scale x2 or similar, in that case it just returns to EmulationStation...

I only have experience running VICE on linux but VICE won't do fullscreen properly if it can't scale by opengl.

When you run x64 on command line you should see in the messages "hwscale:yes" or something similar, if it's 'no' then it won't work.

[Cobe]

I'm not familiar with linux. I setup all other emulators to work just fine following instructions on rpi forums but vice just wont go fullscreen. I gave up. I attached vice's settings. I tried 100 times to turn on and off all things related to graphics but it's always the same.

[john1979]

Can you provide the output you get when running x64 at the command line?

Or is that not possible with this device?

[Retroplay]

Try a self compiled version.
Download latest tarball from here. (2.4.18 as of writing this).
Extract the archive and open a terminal on the pi, then:

./configure --enable-sdlui
make
sudo make install

If it fails to compile you probably just need to install build-essential and sdl.

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

I haven't tried it on my pi though.

[john1979]

You can also try from svn. This is my current version (although change your configure options to Retroplay's)

The 2.4.18 tarball above does work though as long as you don't want video recording feature (it is broken in that release.)

sudo apt-get install subversion 
svn co https://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/ vice 
cd vice/vice 
./autogen.sh 
./configure --enable-gnomeui --enable-static-ffmpeg 
make 
sudo make install

I needed libgtkglext1-dev installed for fullscreen support.

Thread: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55651

[Cobe]

I managed to get output.txt and now I see it says HW scale not available

[john1979]

Forgetting about the rest of the log output for a second, I notice you are running vice2.3, which had known problems with scaling to fullscreen. I remember groepaz telling me fullscreen with scaling was impossible on 2.3. You need to grab the latest dev version of 2.4.x and start from there.

You can see I got it working eventually here: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=52602

Edit: I understand retropie uses raspian which is based on Debian. So a manual compile should be very similar to how we do it on Ubuntu.

[Cobe]

Ok. Thank you guys really a lot. I always got frustrated when dealing with linux cause for example for simple cd command I have to google every now and then to be sure how it works cause my memory no longer remembers things as it used in the days of Amiga... So I'll take a break now, I also have some other duties to finish so I'll try to install 2.4.x tomorrow or later tonight.

[Retroplay]

Originally Posted by john1979

./configure --enable-gnomeui --enable-static-ffmpeg

I never got fullscreen to work properly on my Linux PC with gnomeui enabled.

Originally Posted by john1979

I understand retropie uses raspian which is based on Debian. So a manual compile should be very similar to how we do it on Ubuntu.

It is, but be prepared to wait until christmas for the compile to finish.
I did a Deluge 1.3.11 & libtorrent 0.16.13 compile recently on my pi, it took 7 (!), I repeat, 7 hours to finish.

[Cobe]

ouch... well maybe I'll just use my real C64

[tekopaa]

http://www.commodorepi.co.nr/

[Cobe]

Yes, that's the one stalled and slow mentioned in first post

[john1979]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

I never got fullscreen to work properly on my Linux PC with gnomeui enabled.


It is, but be prepared to wait until christmas for the compile to finish.
I did a Deluge 1.3.11 & libtorrent 0.16.13 compile recently on my pi, it took 7 (!), I repeat, 7 hours to finish.

With the gnomeui it is important that your machine can support opengl hardware scaling in someway or it just doesn't work.

7 hours! Takes me back to the Gentoo days.

[Retroplay]

It is capable of OpenGL & hardware scaling, SDLMAME & FS-UAE runs perfectly fine with OpenGL filter shaders and so on.
The only way I can get fullscreen to work in VICE is using sdlui (hit F12 to bring up menu).

[john1979]

Originally Posted by Retroplay

It is capable of OpenGL & hardware scaling, SDLMAME & FS-UAE runs perfectly fine with OpenGL filter shaders and so on.
The only way I can get fullscreen to work in VICE is using sdlui (hit F12 to bring up menu).

Since the machine I am on doesn't have VICE yet I'd thought I'd give it another try. Got it working with gnomeui enabled and using Nvidia binary drivers:

 1091  svn co https://vice-emu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vice-emu/trunk/
 1092  cd trunk/
 1095  cd vice/
 1097  ./autogen.sh 
 1101  sudo apt-get install bison
 1103  sudo apt-get install flex
 1104  sudo apt-get install libpulse-dev libasound2-dev libmp3lame-dev libgtkglext1-dev
 1107  sudo apt-get install texinfo libreadline-dev libexpat1-dev
 1109  ./configure --enable-gnomeui
 1110  make
 1111  sudo make install
 1112  x64

*** VICE Version 2.4.18, rev 29523M ***
OS compiled for: Linux glibc 2.19
GUI compiled for: GTK+
CPU compiled for: AMD64/x86_64
Compiler used: GCC-4.8.2
Current OS: Linux 3.13.0-46-generic (glibc 2.19)
Current CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E6750  @ 2.66GHz
 
Welcome to x64, the free portable C64 Emulator.

X11: GTK version compiled with: 2.24 (xf86 ext:yes cairo:yes pango:yes VTE:no hwscale:yes fullscreen:yes ui-threads:no)

Then hit alt-d to test the fullscreen. It should scale and keep aspect ratio.