Re: Retro for Mac G3 and G4

[crc]

What GCC or CLANG version are you using?

In the meantime, you can grab a pre-converted image from http://rx-core.org/retroImages/ and see if that works.

-- crc

On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:24:00 AM UTC-4, saurus wrote:

I'd like to run retro on Mac G3 and G4, both under Mac OS X 10.4.11.  

I downloaded Retro 11.4; failed to make retroImageBE.  

Could you show me how to do it?  Here is what I did:

In Makefile I modified

  CFLAGS = -Wall

to

  CFLAGS = -Wall -DRXBE

and did 

$ make

rm -f retro

rm -f retroImage16 retroImage64

rm -f retroImage16BE retroImageBE retroImage64BE

rm -f *~

cc -Wall -DRXBE vm/complete/retro.c -o retro

$ make images

cc -Wall -DRXBE tools/convert.c -o convert

./convert

Loading...

Converting...

Saving...

rm -f convert

$ ls -l retro*

-rwxr-xr-x   1 ...  ...  34964 Jul 17 19:14 retro

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...  27876 Jul  9 19:00 retroImage

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...      0 Jul 17 19:14 retroImage16

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...      0 Jul 17 19:14 retroImage16BE

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...      0 Jul 17 19:14 retroImage64

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...      0 Jul 17 19:14 retroImage64BE

-rw-r--r--   1 ...  ...      0 Jul 17 19:14 retroImageBE

[John Chandler]

I am running 10.4.11 on a PowerBook G4, and attempting to launch
retro.py. Depending on the specific image I symlink to, I either get
a quiet exit, with exit code 0 (retroImage, retroImage64,
retroImage64BE, retroImageBE), or a noisy exit w/exit code 1
(retroImage16, retroImage16BE).

In the noisy case, here's the error message:
====
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jmc/bin/retro.py", line 427, in <module>
run()
File "/Users/jmc/bin/retro.py", line 400, in run
memory = list(struct.unpack( cells * 'i', f.read() ))
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 13936
====

The file sizes might have a bearing on this, but none of the images is
13936. The two that are closest are the ones that produce the noisy
failures:

-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 55752 Aug 12 14:46 retroImage64
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 55752 Aug 12 14:46 retroImage64BE
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 27876 Aug 12 14:47 retroImageBE
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 27876 Aug 12 10:04 retroImage
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 13938 Aug 12 10:05 retroImage16
-rw-r--r-- 1 jmc jmc 13938 Aug 12 10:06 retroImage16BE


This looks like a very basic problem, which could be difficult to fix,
or completely trivial. Do the symptoms I describe indicate what the
problem is, and what I can do about it?

-jmc

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Thank you for the suggestions. I'm out of town now; will check when I'm home.