Use this script to get most P2000 related documentation files :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/scraper-tools/blob/master/Philips_P2000_documents.sh
Blow new live in the old Philips P2000 Emulator of Marcel de Kogel
make_M2000.sh is made for compiling the old
P2000 emulator (1997) from Marcel de Kogel
on the raspberry pi or x86 with raspbian.
It has been tested on raspbian stretch.
It should work on debian or ubuntu too, but is untested.
For now, only the UNIX/X version works.
Version : 1
Use :
This script is made to bring new live to the old Philips P2000 emulator from Marcel de Kogel.
It downloads the source, patches the sourcefile X.c and compiles the Philips P2000 emulator.
For now, only the UNIX/X version works.
How to run :
Make the program executable, dubbleclick and choose open in terminal.
Or run it from the terminal with : ./make_M2000.sh
Version : 1
Use :
P2000Xstation is a simple program created to run the emulator with the selected Philips P2000 .cas files from your windows desktop enviroment (X).
Dependencies :
This program only works if the P2000 emulator is compiled on your computer with make_M2000.sh.
Also make sure you have installed the desired python-modules.
How to run :
Make sure it is in the directory where the P2000 directory and make_M2000.sh is.
Make the program executable, dubbleclick and choose open in terminal.
You can run it also directly from the terminal with : python P2000Xstation.py
Or run it from the terminal with : ./P2000Xstation.py
18 jul. 2019 11:02
Although this post is quite old it seems still relevant and it shoud be nice if it could be added to RetroPie.
I did some investigation about the Philips P2000.
The fastest way of emulating the P2000 is to use DOSbox and the P2000 emulator for DOS.
This is my directory structure :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/EmuOnDos/Philips_P2000T/M2000.exe (emulator)
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/EmuOnDos/Philips_P2000T/games (.cas files)
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/EmuOnDos/P2000T (all executable .sh starters for .cas files)
An .sh starter contains the following, were as "leeg.cas" can be any .cas file :
/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/EmuOnDos/P2000T/leeg.cas.sh :
#!/bin/bash
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -fullscreen -scaler normal3x -c "@echo off" -c "mount c: ~/RetroPie/roms/EmuOnDos/Philips_P2000T" -c "cls" -c "c:" -c "m2000 -verbose 0 -boot 1 -tape games/leeg.cas" -c "exit"
I also tested the source code on raspbian stretch.
The source code is 22 years old but it still works.
I've got the UNIX/X version working again by adding bpp!=24 in X.c.
Compiled with :
make -f Makefile.X
Installed alsa-oss for OSS emulation though alsa :
sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
A proper command, that works from every directory, can be (aoss is for sound):
aoss /your/emulator/dir/m2000 -video 1 -boot 1 -tape /your/emulator/leeg.cas -font /your/emulator/dir/Default.fnt
(Beware, the emulator stops if the window is not active, so click on the emulator window.)
By the way : "I'm not that good in C programming, still learning".
But it seems that for running this code in RetroPie there are a lot of to do's.
To Do's :
make one universal version that can be run in X and also in RetroPie;
if in a window, add more windows scalablility;
add SDL video and audio;
if SDL audio is a problem then add Alsa audio;
remove SVGAlib version.
Who has a good idea of making the source code work in RetroPie ???
12 aug. 2020
This is an update on running Philips P2000 emulator of Marcel de Kogel "M2000.exe" on lr-dosbox.
Philips-P2000 on RPI4 32 bit OS (Buster) with lr-dosbox :
Change a few core-options in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg :
dosbox_cpu_cycles = "9"
dosbox_pcspeaker = "true"
Make a bat file for example Lazy-Bug.bat :
@echo off
cls
c:
m2000 -verbose 0 -boot 1 -tape games/Lazy-Bug.cas
exit
Place it in :
/home/pi/Desktop/roms/pc/P2000/Lazy-Bug.bat
Games should be in :
/home/pi/Desktop/roms/pc/P2000/games/Lazy-Bug.cas
Emulator should be in :
/home/pi/Desktop/roms/pc/P2000/M2000.EXE
With these other files :
BASIC.BIN CWSDPR0.EXE M2000.TXT
CWSDPMI.DOC CWSPARAM.DOC P2000ROM.BIN
CWSDPMI.EXE CWSPARAM.EXE
CWSDPMI.ZIP DEFAULT.FNT
Automatically make all .bat files from .cas files in /home/pi/Desktop/roms/pc/P2000/games/*.cas :
open terminal and paste these commands :
cd /home/pi/Desktop/roms/pc/P2000/
for file in $(ls games | cut -d '.' -f 1); do touch $file.bat; echo -ne @echo off '\n'cls'\n'c:'\n'm2000 -verbose 0 -boot 1 -tape games/$file.cas'\n'exit > $file.bat; done
Works pretty good :)
An attempt to use xdotool in linux to simulate keypresses for the emulator m2000.
This way you can automate typing a basic file that exists as a text file on the host computer.
In some basic you find ~ (tilde) or { ("opening bracket").
These are no mistakes but represent other charachters of the p2000.
Sadly the keys / (slash) and ? (question) or uppercase don't work correctly.
Uppercase is therefor turned off.
For slash and question these is no solution.
And using the slash keys on Raspberry Pi OS will freeze the terminal !
The program echo's the output for debugging. (bash p2000-xdo.sh mybasicfile.bas)
To execute the output just do something like this :
bash p2000-xdo.sh mybasicfile.bas|while read cmd;do $cmd;done
Then you have 5 seconds to click the main window of m2000 so typing can begin !
An attempt to use ydotool in linux to simulate keypresses for the emulator m2000.
This way you can automate typing a basic file that exists as a text file on the host computer.
In some basic you find some special characters I tried to add these as much as possible.
All keys can be read inside the script
Seems ydotool does a much better job with special characters and uppercase/lowercase than xdotool does !
The program echo's the output for debugging. (bash p2000-ydo.sh mybasicfile.bas)
To use the program install ydotoold and ydotool from source like described on this page :
https://gabrielstaples.com/ydotool-tutorial/#gsc.tab=0
(these packages are too old and will not work when installing with : sudo apt install ydotoold ydotool)
I found that I had to install xinput aswell with : sudo apt install xinput
To execute the output just do something like this :
sudo -b ydotoold --socket-path="$HOME/.ydotool_socket" --socket-own="$(id -u):$(id -g)"
(press enter when it says ready)
bash p2000-ydo.sh mybasicfile.bas|while read cmd;do $cmd;done
Then you have 5 seconds to click the main window of m2000 so typing can begin !
BTW.
The basic files that can be found for p2000 have lots of whitespace or lines are spread over multiple lines.
The best way is to edit the basic file before using.
I have built in a workaround for the multiple line issue but this will not always work if the second line starts with a number and a space.