Update scripts do not like the Acorn Atom

[jca]

They throw a 404 error.

[lamarax]

I downloaded it from github, put it where it needs to be put, starts alright, but there doesn't seem to exist a comprehensive .mma or boot.vhd yet.

Yeah, the update script does not seem to like it

Poor Atom; it was my first preferred micro (I had a New Brain at that stone age time also) when I's growing up

[aberu]

It's because Acorn atom's folder structure is incorrect.The updater script is looking for:

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RELEASES_URL="${CORE_URL}/file-list/${BRANCH_NAME}/releases"

And acorn atom's file structure look slike this instead:

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Acorn_Atom_MiSTer/Release/

I'll see if I can propose the change.

[aberu]

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Acorn_A ... Ter/pull/2

There, I think that'll fix it.

[lamarax]

thank you @aberu!

Do I need to delete the .rbf and the respective folders from my SD for the script to work?

[jca]

Strange thing happened: I was posting at the same time of aberu and my post went awol.
I ran the update script as there has been some other updates in the last few days and I was not up to date.
The readme says:
The best software source is the AtomSoftwareArchive V11 zip 11.9MB
There are several sites dedicated to the atom.
So it should not be too difficult to get the needed files.

[aberu]

EDIT: Guess there isn't a TOSEC datfile for Acorn Atom specifically, but they did have datfiles for the BBC Micro, so I got confused.

thank you @aberu!

Do I need to delete the .rbf and the respective folders from my SD for the script to work?

The script won't work until the acorn dev or sorgelig updates the folder name on the github repository.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Acorn_A ... rnAtom.rbf

Download that and place it into /media/fat/_Computer/

[lamarax]

The script won't work until the acorn dev or sorgelig updates the folder name on the github repository.

https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Acorn_A ... rnAtom.rbf

Download that and place it into /media/fat/_Computer/

hmmm, supposedly that got already fixed according to the timestamp on github.

So I've made an experiment; I deleted the .rbf from /media/fat/_Computer/ and the respective "AcornAtom" subfolder I've manually created inside /media/fat/games/ along with the boot.vhd I made loaded with software from the v11.zip mentioned, then ran the official update script aand... nothing. It's as if the core doesn't even exist (no 404) in the main repository.

I should add if it isn't already obvious; manually placing files where they should go works fine. It's the updater that doesn't fetch the core.

[aberu]

It did get fixed, my PR's that brought it and other things up are closed.