Plain F7 loads a save state, with the same rules about the save slot.

MAME will prompt for a save slot you can press any alphanumeric key (0-9 and A-Z) for 36 slots.

Left Shift + F7 saves a save state, which freezes the current machine state and saves it to disk.

Hard resets are handy for getting some configuration options to take effect.

F3 does a forced reset (this is not exactly the same as an Apple II Control-Reset see below for details on that), and left shift + F3 does a 'hard' reset, where MAME is torn completely down and restarted.

P pauses and dims the screen slightly to indicate that you're paused.

Left Alt + Enter ( Left-Option + Return on Macs) toggles full-screen and windowed mode, like in many PC games.

Otherwise MAME will confirm that you want to exit. If you have confirm_quit set to '0' in your mame.ini (as is the default), it will exit immediately.

Tab brings up the MAME menu, which allows you to change the machine configuration, swap floppy disks and CD-ROMs, and do other things.

When you're in UI mode, these keys do useful things: These keys were chosen precisely because they're very uncommon in emulated machines and therefore unlikely to cause problems, in case you're wondering why they're weird. You can re-enable common MAME keys by pressing the UI Mode key, which by default is Scr Lock on Windows and Linux and back-Delete on Macs ( Fn-Delete on non-full-size keyboards like MacBooks). For example, to boot Total Replay with the CFFA2 card emulation, use mame64 apple2ee -sl7 cffa2 -hard1 'Total Replay v3.0.2mg'.Įmulated machines with keyboards like the Apple II start up with almost all of the keys going to the emulated machine. For the II, II Plus, IIe and IIgs, you can boot a hard drive image after inserting an expansion card that supports one by using the command line switch -hard1. For example, mame64 apple2gs -flop3 FTA_Nucleus.2mg. For the IIc Plus and IIGS, you can boot a 3.5' disk image by using the switch -flop3. For example, 'mame64 apple2e -flop1 Dung_Beetles.dsk'. For the II, II Plus, IIe, IIc, and IIGS, you can boot a 5.25' disk by using the command line switch -flop1.

1.10 A note about hard drive and CD-ROM imagesĪssuming you don't have the Software List library, you can use MAME like any other Apple II emulator with the disk images you already have.1.6.13.1 Things to connect to a parallel card.1.6.13 Parallel/Centronics Interface Cards.

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