SofaRun 3.0 &amp; SofaROM 2.0 released

Prophet (2496)

26-04-2017, 21:35

Thanks guys

Kdl, I've heard that SofaROM does not recognize the OCM internal ESE-SCC-like mapper (and launches games using the normal Memory mapper). Let me know if you can confirm that, I'd also be interested by documentation/links about that special mapper (I do not own an OCM).

By Colemu

Hero (544)

27-04-2017, 12:38

I only discovered the wonders of Sofarun about a month ago,
Now I don't know how I lived without it!

Great work Louthrax, from a very grateful user!

By KdL

Paragon (1485)

27-04-2017, 13:16

Louthrax wrote:

Thanks guys

Kdl, I've heard that SofaROM does not recognize the OCM internal ESE-SCC-like mapper (and launches games using the normal Memory mapper). Let me know if you can confirm that, I'd also be interested by documentation/links about that special mapper (I do not own an OCM).

Ok, I will let you know...

By KdL

Paragon (1485)

27-04-2017, 14:22

It seems ok...

By iamweasel2

Paladin (722)

27-04-2017, 15:43

Great news ! I'll check it out for sure this weekend. Does it support running Pointless Fighting with a 2 megabytes Megaram?

I'm curious, what exactly the A.I code from Nyyrikki does in SofaRom?

Thanks for this great update.

By Fabio Belavenuto

Rookie (17)

27-04-2017, 15:48

(translated from portuguese by sd_snatcher user, thanks!)

I would like to help with this topic, as I have some related projects that use VHDL code from the OCM.

This interface has 3 types of "megaRAMs" internally: the SCC-I, the ASCII8 and ASCII16.

In fact, it's implemented as two interfaces: one connected to the slot-1, and another connected to the slot-2. The slot-1 allows the selection of either the external connector or the SCC-I, while for the slot-2 it's possible to select between the external connector or one of the three types of MegaROM controller.

The Switched I/O ports are used to configure the slots and megaROM types. You need to write D4h to the port 40h, and then write to the port 41h one of the following values:

0x0D => Set External Slot-1 + External Slot-2;
0x0E => Set Internal SCC-I Slot-1 + External Slot-2;
0x0F => Set External Slot-1 + Internal SCC-I Slot-2;
0x10 => Set Internal SCC-I Slot-1 + Internal SCC-I Slot-2;
0x11 => Set External Slot-1 + Internal ASCII-8K Slot-2;
0x12 => Set Internal SCC-I Slot-1 + Internal ASCII-8K Slot-2;
0x13 => Set External Slot-1 + Internal ASCII-16K Slot-2;
0x14 => Set Internal SCC-I Slot-1 + Internal ASCII-16K Slot-2;

When the SCC-I is selected as the MegaROM controller in one slot, it behaves like the SD-Snatcher and ESE-SCC cartridges:

Frames:
1.0 => 0x4000-5FFF;
1.1 => 0x6000-7FFF;
2.0 => 0x8000-9FFF;
2.1 => 0xA000-BFFF;

The bank switching is done in the addresses below, only if the bits 6 and 4 of the register-1 (detailed below) are set to zero and the bit 4 of the register-2 is zero.

Writes to 0x5000~0x57FF => Select the page on frame-1.0
Writes to 0x7000~0x77FF => Select the page on frame-1.1
Writes to 0x9000~0x97FF => Select the page on frame-2.0
Writes to 0xN000~0xB7FF => Select the page on frame-2.1

To select the waveRAM, set the page-63 on the frame-2.0 and access it on the area 0x9800 to 0x9FFF

There are two extra registers:

register-1: Address 0x7FFE~0x7FFF (configuration register)
register-2: Address 0xBFFE~0xBFFF (SCC+ mode register)

The register-1 is accessible if the bits 4~5 of the register-2 are set to "00", and the register-2 is only accessible if the bits 4 and 6 of the register-1 are set to "0".

Register-1: (ESE-SCC configuration register)
bit7: not used
bit6: RAM A19 (see bellow)
bit5: not used
bit4: 1=allows RAM writes on frame-1. 0=blocks RAM writes on frame-1.
bit3: not used
bit2: not used
bit1: not used
bit0: not used

Register-2: (SCC+ mode register. Only some bits are implemented)
bit7: not used
bit6: not used
bit5: Sound Mode (0=SCC, 1=SCC+)
bit4: When set to 1, allows writes to the RAM (like the SD-Snatcher SCC+)
bit3: not used
bit2: not used
bit1: not used
bit0: not used

On reads and writes on the RAM, its A19 address is set to 0 for the frame-1.1, and to the register-1 bit6 on the other frames. That limits the effective available memory for ROMs to 512KB. It's possible to have a total of 1MB of ROM, but the frame-1.1 will always be limited to the lower 512KB.

Additional information can be found in the following links:
http://bifi.msxnet.org/msxnet/tech/scc
http://bifi.msxnet.org/msxnet/tech/soundcartridge

The ASCII8 and ASCII16 mappers are almost identical to their original implementation. There's one extra bit on the paging registers: if the bit7 is set to "1" for the following frames, it allows the RAM to be written:

ASCII8: frames 0, 2 and 3
ASCII16: frame 1

To load a ROM, select the mapper type, select the desired page with the bit7 set for the frame-1 on ASCII16, or for the frames 0, 2 and 3 for ASCII8. Then copy the data to those frames normally. After the data is loaded, just initialize all the page registers with the bit7 set to zero.

Prophet (2496)

27-04-2017, 18:31

iamweasel2 wrote:

Great news ! I'll check it out for sure this weekend. Does it support running Pointless Fighting with a 2 megabytes Megaram?

I'm curious, what exactly the A.I code from Nyyrikki does in SofaRom?

Thanks for this great update.

Pointless Fighting works with ESE-SCC 2MB (test here), so there's a good chance it will work with MegaRAM.

Pointless Fighting starts on MFRSCC+SD but crashes when starting fight. I have an IPS patch for that, but I'm trying to implement a "generic" solution that would work for >1MB ROMs on MFRSCC+SD. The ROM pages in MFRSCC+SD above 1MB are not contiguous, so a patch is required in the ROM, I think that this could be done in an automated way (OPFXSD is applying a specific patch for each game).

Nyyrikki's code is called eveytime SofaROM patches something in a ROM. It checks if the bytes to patch are really code or data (patching is not applied in this case). That's used in lots of situation (patching "page switches", but also JoyMega, PSG2SCC and external SCC features).

Prophet (2496)

27-04-2017, 18:23

Fabio Belavenuto wrote:

(translated from portuguese by sd_snatcher user, thanks!)
I would like to help with this topic, as I have some related projects that use VHDL code from the OCM.
This interface has 3 types of "megaRAMs" internally: the SCC-I, the ASCII8 and ASCII16.

Thanks Fabio! I'll try to see if I could have these working in SofaROM. I'll need someone to make tests for me (I do not own a OCM, so that will be some "blind-coding" ).

Prophet (2496)

27-04-2017, 18:25

KdL wrote:

It seems ok...

Thanks for testing KdL. What happens if you do not enter the SLOTMODE commands (does SofaROM work without that)? I guess you can always put them in AUTOEXEC.BAT, waiting for SofaROM to detect these mappers and select them nicely.

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

27-04-2017, 20:45

Louthrax btw, in addition to Fabio’s information, there’s a complete overview pdf of all the I/O settings of the OCM in KdL’s firmware package if you’re interested.

I imagine SLOTMODE controls the settings Fabio mentioned. I haven’t used it myself, normally I use the DIP switches… seems handier to use that command line tool actually .

By Sylvester

Hero (593)

27-04-2017, 21:47

I just noticed that my SD Snatcher SCC isn't detected by sofarun when it's in slot 2-1 of my Slot Expander.Vgmplay seems to have the same issue. Both programs only work when my SCC is in slot 1 of my TR ST.

Is this a know issue? or a limitation of the SD SCC that you can only use it in slot 1 or 2?

Prophet (2496)

28-04-2017, 02:14

Sylvester wrote:

I just noticed that my SD Snatcher SCC isn't detected by sofarun when it's in slot 2-1 of my Slot Expander.Vgmplay seems to have the same issue. Both programs only work when my SCC is in slot 1 of my TR ST.

Is this a know issue? or a limitation of the SD SCC that you can only use it in slot 1 or 2?

That's a super-weird case: I tried with the same configuration here (I'm the lucky owner of an SD Snatcher cartridge), and I indeed got the same "SCC not found" error (I tried to use SD Snatcher as "External SCC" in this case). I then "flashed" the SD Snatcher cartridge with a game (the Konami Game Collection version of Knightmare, that you can create with the KGC2ROMS tools). This was working perfectly, including SCC+ sounds.

After that, I reseted my MSX and made the first test again... and SD Snatcher was the recognized. And no way to reproduce the problem after that!

It seems like flashing the SD Snatcher cartridge restore it in a state that's compatible with the slot-expander... Could you try the same as I did (I can send you the Knightmare SCC+ ROM if you want), and let me know if that changes something ?

Prophet (2496)

28-04-2017, 02:31

I just fixed some issues in SofaROM:

The MFRSCC+SD driver was wrongly configured to support BASIC ROMs. This has been removed (BASIC ROMs are launched using Memory mapper).
When "External SCC was" set in the same main-slot as the disk ROM, sound was disabled in Memory mapper mode. That's fixed too.

I did not change the version numbers, just re-download the SofaRun package or SofaROM.

By KdL

Paragon (1485)

28-04-2017, 07:38

Louthrax wrote:

KdL wrote:

It seems ok...

Thanks for testing KdL. What happens if you do not enter the SLOTMODE commands (does SofaROM work without that)? I guess you can always put them in AUTOEXEC.BAT, waiting for SofaROM to detect these mappers and select them nicely.

SLOTMODE is a temporary mode to change the DIP-SWs.
You can grab the 'Switched I/O Ports' references from the last OCM-PLD Pack.
If you do not choose the properly mode the SofaROM do not works.
Only my firmware can do it... the original 1chipMSX uses the DIP-SW only.
The OCM-EXTRA Pack has the source code of SLOTMODE command inside.

Prophet (2496)

28-04-2017, 18:18

Thanks KdL. I'm tempted to assume in SofaROM that your firmware is installed, considering the OCM/Zemmix/etc... as a single ROM device, and selecting the good "slotmode" according to the ROM. That would simplify things I guess (the other approach is to add the OCM mappers as individual ROM devices that will be detected depending on the DIP switches... not so handy...).

What do you guys think? Can all OCM/Zemmix be updated with KdL firmware, or any reason not to do that? (or any interest to go for the "individual ROM devices" approach ?).

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

28-04-2017, 18:33

You can detect the presence of KdL firmware easily (out (40H),D4H; if in (40H) == ~D4H), also a version number can be read though I don’t know from the top of my head… If not detected, just rely on ESE-SCC support and let the user set the DIP switches correctly.

Prophet (2496)

01-05-2017, 20:18

Thanks Grauw, that approach looks good.

https://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/hardware/fddide-controlle...

Prophet (2496)

06-05-2017, 02:32

I just promoted those small fixes:

Selected directory is now preserved when you go to the parent directory ("..") in the file browser.
1x is now the default flash speed for MFRSCC+ non-SD.
Due to popular demand, .BAS file extension has been added to the SR.INI file (I was using .LDR for my personnal game setup to differentiate from .BAS files and know which file is the "official launcher", but that's not so handy for everybody).

I did not change the version number, just re-download from the same location.

By Erwin Brasil

Supporter (5)

25-05-2017, 09:37

To be complete, only the save state feature is missing in this program.

By mboixo

Resident (40)

25-05-2017, 13:46

~~Link in page no work.~~

By Bastiaan

Champion (333)

01-06-2017, 12:40

Are these new programs compatible with Carnivore2 cartridge?

Prophet (2496)

02-06-2017, 09:55

Erwin Brasil wrote:

To be complete, only the save state feature is missing in this program.

Yeah, I had that request several times The Game Master (1 & 2) option already allows you to do that for most Konami cartridges games. That should be doable for DSK and other ROM games (on disk access, or keyboard access if that's done in a standard way) , the only thing is to "guess" the state of the VDP correctly (maybe that could be done through options).

Prophet (2496)

14-06-2017, 15:28

SofaROM 2.1 is out and available from my website, with the following changes:

Support for the new GR8Net "composite mappers" recently added by Eugeny. These new mappers allow using the Game Master (1 & 2) option, and also saving/loading on disk with games allowing that (King's Valley 2, Metal Gear 2...).
Better detection of ESE SRAM cartridges. Some ESE SRAM models where temporary disabled by the Snatcher and SDSnatcher cartridges detection routine (which were usually performed first). That's fixed.

Please note that the GR8Net ID switches must be set to their default positions for SofaROM to detect it (those are the small switches under the cartridge near the connector).

SofaRun itself has not changed (no new options were introduced), but the SofaRun package also contains the new v2.1 SofaROM.

By ~mk~

Champion (340)

17-06-2017, 02:46

Louthrax wrote:

Erwin Brasil wrote:

To be complete, only the save state feature is missing in this program.

Yeah, I had that request several times The Game Master (1 & 2) option already allows you to do that for most Konami cartridges games. That should be doable for DSK and other ROM games (on disk access, or keyboard access if that's done in a standard way) , the only thing is to "guess" the state of the VDP correctly (maybe that could be done through options).

Louthrax, maybe you can get in touch with the author of Game Runner or just see how it is implemented. I would love to be able to use save states on my real msx, but unfortunately I am limited to MSX-DOS 1.0 :(

Prophet (2415)

31-08-2017, 18:35

is there a detailed manual/tutorial available for all the options? I really want to play SD snatcher without the use of a physical disk drive (also for saves)

Prophet (2496)

31-08-2017, 19:18

Vampier wrote:

is there a detailed manual/tutorial available for all the options? I really want to play SD snatcher without the use of a physical disk drive (also for saves)

Should be as simple as copying your concatenated SD Snatcher disks to your SD card along with the contents of the SOFARUN.ZIP file.

You have a full documentation of all options in SR.TXT for the user-interface use, and also SRI.TXT for the disk launcher and SROM.TXT for the ROM launcher (not needed if you launch things with SofaRun). All those help files are also viewable directly in the different "Usage" links on my website. All options are also displayed (with a bit less details) if you just launch SRI.COM and SROM.COM without parameters. Wondering what visibility I could add to that ?

Prophet (2415)

01-09-2017, 07:04

once I have my megaflashrom scc+ SD I might make a tutorial (quickstart guide)

Prophet (2496)

01-09-2017, 12:24

Ah yes, a little quick start guide would be nice! I was also thinking about making a FAQ one day, covering the different MSX models and SD devices specific things...

Rookie (17)

04-09-2017, 22:52

Hi

Just reading up about SofaRun - what an awesome tool and love the name! What would be the steps to configure sofarun to be the default app executed via Nextor when used with a MegaFlashRom SCC SD+?

Thanks
John

Prophet (2496)

05-09-2017, 00:14

Hi z00pster,

z00pster wrote:

Hi
Just reading up about SofaRun - what an awesome tool and love the name!

Thanks for the nice words

z00pster wrote:

What would be the steps to configure sofarun to be the default app executed via Nextor when used with a MegaFlashRom SCC SD+?

That question is frequently asked these days here. Here's my attempt at doing a quick tutorial on this:

Format an SD card in FAT16 on your preferred desktop / laptop computer.
Unzip SOFARUN.ZIP to a "SOFARUN" folder on your SD card.
Copy your games, disk, rom or cas images to your SD card. I recommend grouping them into ZIP files (ROM.ZIP, DISK.ZIP, etc...) if you have lots of files and want to enjoy long file names.
With your favorite text editor, create a file named "AUTOEXEC.BAT" at the root of your SD card and put this line in it:
```
  A:\SOFARUN\SR.COM 
```
Insert that SD card in your MFRSCC+SD, boot your MSX and copy the files NEXTOR.SYS and COMMAND2.COM from the ROM disk to your SD Card (also backup the tools or files from the ROM disk that you find useful).
Remove the ROM disk: boot your MSX while keeping the [Up] cursor key pressed and then press [F3] ("Erase ROM disk").
Reset your MSX and start playing!
Finally be sure to check the SofaRun documentation to fully enjoy your MSX (lots of things can be configured, in the UI and in the .INI files).

Rookie (17)

05-09-2017, 08:46

Thanks!

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

05-09-2017, 09:35

Louthrax wrote:

Insert that SD card in your MFRSCC+SD, boot your MSX and copy the files NEXTOR.SYS and COMMAND2.COM from the ROM disk to your SD Card (also backup the tools or files from the ROM disk that you find useful).
Remove the ROM disk: boot your MSX while keeping the [Up] cursor key pressed and then press [F3] ("Erase ROM disk").

I would start with these two steps, making a complete copy of the ROM disk to the SD-card (using Multi Mente), erasing the ROM disk and ensuring that it boots from the SD now and things still work. Perhaps slightly more foolproof that way for a novice. Paths will be set up correctly in the AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc.

After that you can do the steps to put SofaRun on there and modify the AUTOEXEC.BAT (replace the "MM" line with SR, rather than making a new one).

Rookie (17)

05-09-2017, 23:57

Thanks. Few additional questions:

1) Presumable the ROM disk can be recreated if needed?
2) Would it be possible to put an option in AUTOEXEC.BAT to boot into MM or SR?
3) Finally is SofaROM needed to use SofaRun?

Prophet (2496)

06-09-2017, 00:38

z00pster wrote:

Thanks. Few additional questions:
1) Presumable the ROM disk can be recreated if needed?

Sure, check the MFRSCC+ SD documentation (you can get the ROM disk image from the official site and have to use OPFXSD.COM).

z00pster wrote:

2) Would it be possible to put an option in AUTOEXEC.BAT to boot into MM or SR?

Yes, that can be done with some MSX-DOS 2 commands, but I do not rememer the syntax exactly.

z00pster wrote:

3) Finally is SofaROM needed to use SofaRun?

No, you can replace SofaROM with the ROM launcher of your choice or just remove it (would be curious to know why if you do so!), but you won't benefit from the ROM options in SofaRun. Check the SR.INI file and SofaRun documentation for details.

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

06-09-2017, 10:05

Louthrax wrote:

z00pster wrote:

Thanks. Few additional questions:
1) Presumable the ROM disk can be recreated if needed?

Sure, check the MFRSCC+ SD documentation (you can get the ROM disk image from the official site and have to use OPFXSD.COM).

(Though I think once you’ve migrated files to SD card, there’s not much point in using the ROM disk anymore.)

Louthrax wrote:

z00pster wrote:

2) Would it be possible to put an option in AUTOEXEC.BAT to boot into MM or SR?

Yes, that can be done with some MSX-DOS 2 commands, but I do not rememer the syntax exactly.

Simplest is to put both Multi Mente and SofaRun directories in the path (append to the SET PATH= in AUTOEXEC.BAT with a ; separator), then if you leave the MM / SR entry out of the AUTOEXEC.BAT it will boot into DOS and you can simply start either by typing "MM" or "SR". This is what I do.

If you want to be fancy you can "echo" some descriptive reminder text in the autoexec.bat, and if you want to be really fancy you can echo some menu choices and then create batch-files 1.BAT, 2.BAT or M.BAT, S.BAT, etc. (But personally I think the Multi Mente and SofaRun executable names are short enough to just keep things simple and type .)

Rookie (17)

06-09-2017, 10:30

True! Thanks for the additional advice.

Prophet (2415)

07-09-2017, 18:36

I wish sofarun has the capability to activate the r800/z80a modes from the selection screen. Maybe something for the next release?

Prophet (2496)

07-09-2017, 19:26

Vampier wrote:

I wish sofarun has the capability to activate the r800/z80a modes from the selection screen. Maybe something for the next release?

You have this in the per-game settings (check turboR / CPU option in the menu). This can be set as a default settings (check the "Global settings", so that will be applied to all games).

What's your intended use here?

Prophet (2415)

07-09-2017, 20:06

my intended use is to make slow games like SD snatcher/YS1 go faster.... some games are nicely synced while others create an utter mess of the sound though so individual settings are indeed the way to go.

Prophet (2496)

07-09-2017, 21:01

Vampier wrote:

my intended use is to make slow games like SD snatcher/YS1 go faster.... some games are nicely synced while others create an utter mess of the sound though so individual settings are indeed the way to go.

Yep, settings in SofaRun have been designed for that purpose

Rookie (17)

07-09-2017, 23:37

Got SR running on my SD card after following the provided instructions. Thanks for the great advice!

I copied a fairly large zip file onto the SD (9MB) containing about 150 games. When I try and run the roms from zip I get an "Out of Segments" error message. Is that related to the zip size or something else? Roms are loading fine if selected outside a zip.

My MSX 2 has 128k vram and the MEGAFLASHROM has 512k RAM.

Prophet (2496)

07-09-2017, 23:50

z00pster wrote:

Got SR running on my SD card after following the provided instructions. Thanks for the great advice!

I copied a fairly large zip file onto the SD (9MB) containing about 150 games. When I try and run the roms from zip I get an "Out of Segments" error message. Is that related to the zip size or something else? Roms are loading fine if selected outside a zip.

My MSX 2 has 128k vram and the MEGAFLASHROM has 512k RAM.

It should work with 512K RAM. Can you type a "MEMORY" command in MSX-DOS and report what's displayed? (and what's you MSX model?)

Rookie (17)

08-09-2017, 09:07

131 072 bytes. MSX Model is Panasonic AS-A1F.

Rookie (17)

08-09-2017, 10:51

Finally worked out what happened. I was originally going to order the 512K version of the megaflashrom (so this was highlighted in my emails on the subject) but in the end I didn't order the extra memory! I'm now ordering the extra memory so I can use it with SofaRun. Good to have a justification for the upgrade!

Prophet (2496)

08-09-2017, 13:10

z00pster wrote:

Finally worked out what happened. I was originally going to order the 512K version of the megaflashrom (so this was highlighted in my emails on the subject) but in the end I didn't order the extra memory! I'm now ordering the extra memory so I can use it with SofaRun. Good to have a justification for the upgrade!

Good! That memory expansion will definitively be useful, you'll also be able to launch .DSK images and use other RAM consuming tools and demos.

Rookie (17)

08-09-2017, 13:46

Great. Out of interest is there a list of software and tools that benefit from the additional memory?

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

08-09-2017, 17:32

VGMPlay :D

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

08-09-2017, 22:11

I tried to run SofaRun from the B: drive ( using a MFR with ROM disk on A: ). I modified all three paths in the sr.ini file to B:, however when i try to launch a rom it still gives an error writing to A: (which ofcourse is read only). Am i still missing a setting somewhere?

Prophet (2496)

08-09-2017, 22:19

ToriHino wrote:

I tried to run SofaRun from the B: drive ( using a MFR with ROM disk on A: ). I modified all three paths in the sr.ini file to B:, however when i try to launch a rom it still gives an error writing to A: (which ofcourse is read only). Am i still missing a setting somewhere?

There's also a path to change in SROM.INI:

####################################################################
[SYSTEM]
####################################################################

# Path  containing  SROM.FLH file. That  file keeps track of flashed
# ROMs for non-volatile devices.

FLHPATH=A:\SETTINGS

# Path  containing  Game Master's ROMs. Files must be named
# SROM.GM1 (Game Master 1) and SROM.GM2 (Game Master 2).

#GMPATH=B:\GM

Let me know if that works!

By ToriHino

Paladin (927)

08-09-2017, 22:38

Yes that was it, thanks!

By Samy83

Rookie (22)

02-10-2017, 19:48

Hello,

Louthrax, do you intend to support the Carnivore 2 cartridge ?

Thanks.

Prophet (2496)

02-10-2017, 20:36

Samy83 wrote:

Hello,

Louthrax, do you intend to support the Carnivore 2 cartridge ?

Thanks.

Yes, I'd be glad to do that (already had several request), I'll just need a Carnivore 2 for that purpose. 8bits4ever mentionned they would send me a prototype version but I had no news so far.

By Samy83

Rookie (22)

02-10-2017, 21:07

Louthrax wrote:

Samy83 wrote:

Hello,

Louthrax, do you intend to support the Carnivore 2 cartridge ?

Thanks.

Yes, I'd be glad to do that (already had several request), I'll just need a Carnivore 2 for that purpose. 8bits4ever mentionned they would send me a prototype version but I had no news so far.

MP

Prophet (2496)

02-10-2017, 22:08

MP do not work well on MRC these days. I sent you an email directly!

Prophet (2496)

11-10-2017, 13:43

A little preview of the coming "ZIP filter" function in SofaRun:
ZIP filter in SofaRun

It uses generic wildcards (with "*" and "?"), that allows to list either games starting with a given sequence ("Z*"), or games containing a specific string ("*(KONAMI)*", or "*(199?)* to list all games released in the nineties).

To be released before the end of the week (along with the full support for Carnivore 2).

By eebuckeye

Resident (33)

05-01-2018, 02:13

Does 3.2 support long filenames? I am using it and it seems to be the same as when I used v2.

Thanks!

By Grauw

Ascended (10821)

05-01-2018, 02:40

Only in ZIP files.

By eebuckeye

Resident (33)

05-01-2018, 17:42

Sweet! Time to try to remember where I downloaded the zip files...

By Lazzeri

Champion (280)

06-03-2018, 18:50

Sorry to ask: Do I need a specific configuration to run .DSK files? Like Nextor instead of MSX-DOS or a specific amount of RAM / MegaRAM?

Never used this software and really looking for it but I do use a MMC/SD with DOS2 and I´m not sure if I can squeeze Nextor on it.

Prophet (2496)

06-03-2018, 20:05

Lazzeri wrote:

Sorry to ask: Do I need a specific configuration to run .DSK files? Like Nextor instead of MSX-DOS or a specific amount of RAM / MegaRAM?

Never used this software and really looking for it but I do use a MMC/SD with DOS2 and I´m not sure if I can squeeze Nextor on it.

Hi Lazzeri,

SofaRunIt requires MSX-DOS 2 (not necessary Nextor), and 256 KB RAM. No other additionnal hardware is required.

By Lazzeri

Champion (280)

06-03-2018, 20:29

Thank you! :-)

By GUNMA747J

Expert (100)

19-08-2018, 15:17

how to deal with multi disk games? just zip them into a zip file?

Prophet (2496)

19-08-2018, 17:50

You have to concatenate your .DSK files into a single "big" DSK file. You can then swap the disks when playing using the keyboard or joystick. Everything is described in the documentation (and it's still possible to have your concatenated DSK file in a ZIP file).

By giuseve

Paladin (814)

25-08-2018, 16:03

Hallo Louthrax,
so, no way to swap disk without concatenate it directly in SOFARUN?
Neither with tis 2 options:
- filename type xxx1.dsk xxx2.dsk etc.
- filename type xxxx.fd1 xxxx.fd2 etc.
- zipping files from one of the two options above?
?

SOFARUNIT seems to already do this
* Keyboard or joystick on the fly disk change