Command Line?

[TVsIan]

I'm testing out the possibility of including this core with Batocera, and there is one issue I can't quite figure out.

On MiniVMac standalone, you can pass multiple disk files, so you can load for example a boot disk and a game disk. I see that a function was added to parse the command line for the core, and it looks like it should be loading multiple disks, but in practice it only seems to load the first disk.

Is there a way to pass the command line to the core specifically? The Retroarch docs and --help options don't give much on that, and just adding a second disk image to the Retroarch command line doesn't work. It looks like the --subsystem command can take multiple options, but it doesn't appear that's in use for this core.

[alondero]

Another vote for being able to support multiple disk images (maybe we should rename this to avoid XY problem). I'd love to try out the minivmac core moreso, but I currently have multiple system disks that I use with individual hard disks for each game (together with AppleScript that auto-loads and shuts down those games when first booted/exited). Would love to reuse that :-)

[zach-morris]

@TVsIan, @alondero
Just wanted to note that cmd files do work. It took me a while to figure out how to do it though after sifting through the source.

Create a cmd file with the following as an example:

"Mini vMac" "path_to_disks/224M.dsk" "path_to_disks/glider_4.dsk"

Where the first disk is your OS disk and the second is the disk you want to mount. Load the cmd file and it will boot using the OS disk and also mount the second disk:

Edit: You can also do it from the command line directly, by escaping the same command. If you run this you get the same result (using OSX as an example, but should be the same roughly for all OS's):

path_to_app/RetroArch -L "/path_to_cores/minivmac_libretro.dylib" "\"Mini vMac\" \"/path_to_disks/224M.dsk\" \"/path_to_disks/glider_4.dsk\""