Virtualc64: Action Replay VI and VirtualC64

[puleyo]

Hello to all.
I also owned the Action Replay 6 cartridge and I was very happy with this.
Is there a way to get it started in VirtualC64?
How do the cartridge buttons work with the emulator?
Please, help me.

action_replay_6.zip

[Alessandro1970]

Oh yes, I had almost forgotten, now I'm too old, _big days in those days_!
The legendary Action Replay, beautiful.
Excellent mon editor and a lot of tools like the poke enterer, screen saver/editor, the disk fastloader...
Magnificent cartridge !!!
It should still be implemented I believe, I am downloading your attachment and I will try tonight at home.

[Ottavius]

This cartridge is very much appreciated for me, let me know how I can use this with VirtualC64.
Do you have a quick guide?

[Alessandro1970]

You have to download the Puleyo's file, look inside, you will find the manual in English.

[Ottavius]

Ok done, Thank you.
But VirtualC64 does't work with the Action Replay !
What am I doing wrong?

[Alessandro1970]

I don’t know.
Probably It should still be implemented, I will try tonight at home. Now I cannot.

[Alessandro1970]

It is not supported yet.

[dirkwhoffmann]

The Action Replay cartridge needs a custom implementation similar to the Final Cartridge III. I'll put it on top on the list of the cartridges to be supported.

[Alessandro1970]

hi,
can someone tell me where I can find (download) the ActionReplay 3 .CRT file?
Thanks

[Alessandro1970]

hi,
can someone tell me where I can find (download) the ActionReplay 3 .CRT file?
Thanks

[dirkwhoffmann]

http://ar.c64.org/wiki/Action_Replay

Scroll down and download

Action_Replay_all_rr.c64.org_2013-01.rar

I'm trying to make the cartridge work, but I didn't succeed so far.

[dirkwhoffmann]

If you stumble across a schematics of the V3 version, please let me know.

[Ottavius]

Why AR MK3 ? ...it is buggy!
Version 4 or version 6 instead work well.

[Alessandro1970]

I have found something here:

http://przychodnia-jawor.pl/temp/Commodore%2064/C64%20Cartridges/Action_Replay/AR_Sources/
http://przychodnia-jawor.pl/temp/Commodore%2064/C64%20Cartridges/Action_Replay/

[dirkwhoffmann]

I started with version 7.5., but I didn't get it to work. When selecting the fast loader, it resets to the main screen (current code in V2.3 branch, if you want to compile it with XCode). Therefore, I decided to go for AR3 first, because it has simpler hardware (no onboard RAM).

[Alessandro1970]

http://rr.c64.org/wiki/Inside_Replay_Essentials.txt

[Alessandro1970]

https://sourceforge.net/p/vice-emu/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/vice/src/c64/cart/actionreplay.c

[dirkwhoffmann]

I made some progress on AR3. When the cartridge is attached and the freeze button is pressed, the AR3 menu comes up as expected. I didn't test all features extensively, but I was able to use to freezer to backup a running game to an empty disk and reload it from there. However, as I never had an AR cartridge, I don't know exactly how the correct behavior should be (especially for the other features).

I have set up a beta version which can be downloaded here:

http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/VirtualC64_2.3_beta1.zip

This version also supports the GeoRAM (use the cartridge menu to attach it). I didn't test it with Geos yet, but it seems to work well with the drive tool app that was mentioned in the GeoRAM thread.

[dirkwhoffmann]

AR7.5 also looks much better now:

http://www.dirkwhoffmann.de/VirtualC64_2.3_beta2.zip

However, I think there is some incompatibility between the AR7 fast loader and the current drive implementation. While testing, I experienced some read failures from time to time. Please let me know if you experience similar issues.

[dirkwhoffmann]

There is definitely a problem with the AR7 fast loader. Hard to say, if it is related to the drive implementation or the AR cartridge implementation.

[dirkwhoffmann]

The cartridge itself seems to work, but the current drive emulation does not seem to be accurate enough. Issue #363 is a follow up.

[Alessandro1970]

The best-selling cartridges were Action Replay MK IV (1988) and Action Replay MK V (1989) in my opinion would be to enable only these.
Few will have bought the VI ...
If you can add MK III, IV and V it would be the best...

[dirkwhoffmann]

IV, V and VI seem to use the exact same hardware. The issue with the AR7 fast loader is interesting by itself, because it points to a more general bug in the drive emulation code.

[Alessandro1970]

I haven't tried the fastload but the cartridge MKIV and MKVI work fine.