Apple 2 emulators can't be launced from ES. Applewin core is missing a dependancy

zomgugoff commented 7 months ago

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Describe the Issue (If applicable)

A clear and concise description of what the bug is. Apple II emulators are not able to start. The 'apple2' section of es_systems.cfg is missing emulator and core entries. Also, applewin in Retroarch is failing to start. Logs show "[ERROR] Error(s): libslirp.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

How can the issue be reproduced? (If applicable)

Try to start an apple2 game, or try to start the applewin core in Retroarch

What device are you using? (Only the Gameforce Chi, RK2020, OGA 1.0, OGA 1.1, RG351MP, RG351V, RGB10, R35s, RG353V/VS, RG353M, RG503, RGB30, and RK2023 units are officially supported)

RGB30

What version of ArkOS are you on?

You can find this during the initial boot process right before the Emulationstation loading screen 2.0 03302024

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christianhaitian commented 7 months ago

I can't replicate this issue on my end. All my testing shows the entries are added fine into ES and the resources needed by the emulators are included in the /opt/applewin folder and when launched with the /usr/local/bin/apple2.sh script, they launch without issue. Do you have a custom es_systems.cfg you overwrote the previous updated es_systems.cfg with?

christianhaitian commented 7 months ago

This is the entry that should have been included in your es_systems.cfg file from the 03292024 update:

    <system>
        <name>apple2</name>
        <fullname>Apple II</fullname>
        <path>/roms/apple2/</path>
        <extension>.dsk .DSK .sh .SH .do .DO .po .PO .apple2 .APPLE2 .zip .ZIP</extension>
        <command>sudo perfmax %GOVERNOR%; nice -n -19 /usr/local/bin/apple2.sh %EMULATOR% %CORE% %ROM%; sudo perfnorm</command>
        <emulators>
           <emulator name="linapple">
           </emulator>
           <emulator name="retroarch">
             <cores>
               <core>applewin</core>    
             </cores>
           </emulator>
           <emulator name="applewin">
             <cores>
               <core>scanlines</core>   
               <core>no-scanlines</core>    
             </cores>
           </emulator>
        </emulators>
        <platform>apple2</platform>
        <theme>apple2</theme>
    </system>

Also, the applewin2 core can't be started directly from within retroarch as it is still being worked on by the creator and requires various tricks to start that the apple2.sh file accounts for.

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