How to transform a MINIPC in a MSX | MSX Resource Center (Page 4/4)

Expert (81)

18-09-2023, 11:43

If It Helps, I tried too.
I've burn imagev3 on usb stick.
tried on my desktop recent pc doesn't boot
on old asus net pc boot but still no sound.

how can i transfer games to the stick, i have windows pc.
i see two partition on the usb stick.
I think one is linux fat and other is fat, but when i boot mi netpc with the stick
not the file manager and not openmsx can see that partition, can't see neither other usb stick in other port.

Sorry for my bad english.
thanks

By Daemos

Prophet (2170)

18-09-2023, 13:12

Burn the image with rufus. The image is Uefi so if your system boots in legacy this one won't work. There are two partitions in the image. Ext4 and vfat indeed. The vfat is the uefi partition. The other one contains the whole os.

Automounting is not build in yet. We are working towards this image 1 step at the time.

By Gig71

Expert (81)

18-09-2023, 20:12

Thanks for the answer.
I'll Continue to try All updates made.

By giuseve

Paladin (813)

23-09-2023, 10:45

Hi Daemos,
I've tested the v3 of MSXli (Ok, the name is just to understand each other on-the-fly, let me know if you like it :-)

SUTDOWN WORKS
AUDIO DOESN'T WORK

My test platforms are:
- HP8200 (i7) with REALTEK HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO
- INTEL MINIPC Z83 (Atom) with INTEL SST AUDIO

The test was on:
- BEEP on MSX Boot
- PLAY "aaaaaaaaa" command in BASIC
- SPACE MANBOW.ROM game

Maybe more drivers to add?

By Daemos

Prophet (2170)

23-09-2023, 16:10

can you open a terminal on the image and see what the output of ls /dev is?

there should be a snd folder in there. Can you also output lsmod for me?

you can open a terminal by right clicking in the desktop

By giuseve

Paladin (813)

23-09-2023, 16:39

I'm not a linux expert .. but I try..

I launched the image on the MINI PC and I opened terminal and input:

LSMOD
the result is a serie of lines
This line seems interesting:
snd_intel_sst_core 1 snd_intel_sst_acpi

LS / DEV
the result is:
ls : cannot access 'dev' : no such file or directory

By Daemos

Prophet (2170)

23-09-2023, 17:37

ls /dev exactly as i wrote.

By giuseve

Paladin (813)

24-09-2023, 11:28

Ops, Sorry.

ls /dev shows many results with different colors.
I confirm that in purple there is also a SND voice...

By giuseve

Paladin (813)

24-09-2023, 12:33

I forgot to add a question

It could be nice to let users to customize the launch line of openmsx
I know that is possible to set directly in OpenMsx a complex machine configuration and to save it as default configuration.
But in many case is very useful to change it directly from the launch line of OpenMSX.
For example, my default OpenMSX is a super european Turbor that starts with this:

F:\NEWMSX3\_OPENMSX\openmsx.exe -machine Panasonic_FS-A1GTE -ext slotexpander -ext ram4mb -ext audio -ext audio2 -ext gfx9000 -ext moonsound -ext scc+ -ext SunriseIDE_Nextor -hda F:/NEWMSX3/_OPENMSX/zemhdd.dsk

Is it possible to do the same in MSXli ?

By Daemos

Prophet (2170)

24-09-2023, 17:27

can be done. We take the whole line. Trow it in a script and call that script. easy.

so there is a /dev/snd folder so the sound card is found. This is interesting. I will try to trow in pulseaudio or pipewire it ususally causes more troubles than it normally should but it will propably help to get the sound going. Openmsx finds this /dev/snd folder and automaticly sends the audio there so it is strange that there is no sound. Has to be some kind of mixer problem. Even nastier is that it just works fine on any computer I test over here.

Will bake new image soon.