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libretro / fuse-libretro

A port of the Fuse Unix Spectrum Emulator to libretro
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Standalone (Start without content) #134

Open allsorts46 opened 2 years ago

allsorts46 commented 2 years ago

I'm sorry if I have just missed this somehow, but is it possible to start the FUSE core without choosing a game to load? I noticed some other cores (eg VICE for VIC-20) allow starting in this way, which behaves just as if you'd turned on the machine.

I'd really like to use the Sinclair BASIC on the Spectrum +2. Normally you'd choose it from the main menu after turning the Spectrum on but I couldn't see any way to get to that.

I have also used the standalone FUSE emulator which does start in that way. Can this be done with this libretro core? If not is it something you could easily enable?

Thank you!

snoofly commented 2 years ago

Pretty sure there was a fuse core setting added a few months back to not auto load anything and bring you to the basic interpreter.

allsorts46 commented 2 years ago

I did see this: https://github.com/libretro/fuse-libretro/pull/108 And something else I can't find now about auto-loading tapes.

As I understand though, this just means that you still have to choose content, but then have to enter 'Load ""' to initiate the tape load on the Spectrum.

The VIC-20 core, by comparison, literally displays an additional option in Retroarch to start without content. I don't know how libretro cores work internally but assume there's a way to expose this capability to the host, which enables this menu option?