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I have a ROM dumped from an Apple //e, and I'd like to use it with MAME in Linux (I'm running Debian). However, it's not clear from the manual how I could do that. it seems I can put ROMS on ~/mame/roms, but when I start MAME, it doesn't let me use those.

I have this ROM image, and I also have a couple of disk images (can I use those with MAME?)

Where can I find simple instructions on how to start an Apple //e with MAME? If it's possible to start directly from the command line, it would be even better!

I tried to identify my dumped ROM, and MAME says it doesn't match anything it knows (I'd expect that, since each clone's ROM will be different, I suppose).

$ mame -remident apple2e.rom
apple2e.rom         NO MATCH
No roms matched.

(the file apple2e.rom is in MAME's ROMs path, I believe, since it is in ~/mame/roms)

Jay
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1) Do mame -showconfig | less and verify the ROM path matches where you put the file.

2) You can actually find all Apple ROMs for MAME on the internet, and you need a bunch of them (character generator, disk ROM, the monitor/BASIC ROM you dumped) in a specific format with a specific checksum. So it may be easier to use those ROMs instead of trying to massage your ROM into the format MAME expects (which I'd have to look up, too). Just putting a .zip file with several ROMs in it into the ROM directory also works.

3) You start mame with the name of the configuration you want, plus disk images, e.g.

mame apple2p -flop1 ~/games/apple/Bolo.dsk

for Apple II plus.

You can use other options to modify the configuration (cards in slots) as in mame -sl[0-7] name_of_device. mame -lslot shows available slot options (for all systems, not only Apple). mame -ld apple2p shows the default hardware for this configuration.

4) I totally agree a simple and robust Apple II emulator for Linux would be nice. :-)

dirkt
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