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RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - MbeeTech - 02-05-2026
This is really great work Anthony.
I haven't tried it yet, but uBee512 has been crying out for this for a long time.
Awesome stuff.
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - fathertedcrilly - 03-05-2026
Just having a play with this whilst Novato churns ( slowly ) through JSON test.
The load location for ubee512 seems to be fixed to /Applications/ubee512-6.0.0-macOS-arm64/ubee512/app/ irrespective of what path you enter
And it seems to want a rom1.bin. I'm not sure what that corresponds to in real life rooms
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - zbfairlane - 03-05-2026
(03-05-2026, 06:27 PM)fathertedcrilly Wrote: Just having a play with this whilst Novato churns ( slowly ) through JSON test.
The load location for ubee512 seems to be fixed to /Applications/ubee512-6.0.0-macOS-arm64/ubee512/app/ irrespective of what path you enter
And it seems to want a rom1.bin. I'm not sure what that corresponds to in real life rooms
I'll take a look at that father, i think I know why that is happening.
I'll be back later with some updates. Were you able to get it to laaunch the emulator on your mac at all? it seems I have sent out the. mac version with a default setting based on my own installation setup.
@ Ewan, Thank you.
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - fathertedcrilly - 03-05-2026
I kind of stumbled at the rom hurdle.
It's all good. Take your time.
I'm running Tahoe ( apple silicon ) if that helps
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - zbfairlane - 03-05-2026
(03-05-2026, 06:47 PM)fathertedcrilly Wrote: I kind of stumbled at the rom hurdle.
It's all good. Take your time.
I'm running Tahoe ( apple silicon ) if that helps
OK Thank you for testing, I have now fixed the rom selection issue along with the poor behaviour of the folder selection.
The problems you found were common across all versions so I still have some work in front of me to resolve them. I am on the road though.
Im testing on a mac with sequoa and M1.
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - shane.crozier - 03-05-2026
Something that may or may not be something you feel you need to address - using Ubee512 when you're using a HD18 rom - you need to use the "--hdd3=location of disk image file" syntax the -image_a through d doesnt work as these are for the onboard controllers.
Not a biggie
works beautifully within the specification of its design though - a job very well done
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - fathertedcrilly - 04-05-2026
(03-05-2026, 08:50 PM)zbfairlane Wrote: fathertedcrillyI kind of stumbled at the rom hurdle.
It's all good. Take your time.
I'm running Tahoe ( apple silicon ) if that helps
OK Thank you for testing, I have now fixed the rom selection issue along with the poor behaviour of the folder selection.
The problems you found were common across all versions so I still have some work in front of me to resolve them. I am on the road though.
Im testing on a mac with sequoa and M1.
These things always take far longer to fix than anticipated. I'm in no hurry
Silly question.
is the app a universal binary or apple silicon only ?
Doesn't seem to work on my steam powered Intel MacBook Air ( Sonoma ) but doesn't give me the "bad execution type" error
Thanks
Tony
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - zbfairlane - 04-05-2026
(04-05-2026, 11:51 AM)fathertedcrilly Wrote:Its not a silly question,(03-05-2026, 08:50 PM)zbfairlane Wrote: fathertedcrillyI kind of stumbled at the rom hurdle.
It's all good. Take your time.
I'm running Tahoe ( apple silicon ) if that helps
OK Thank you for testing, I have now fixed the rom selection issue along with the poor behaviour of the folder selection.
The problems you found were common across all versions so I still have some work in front of me to resolve them. I am on the road though.
Im testing on a mac with sequoa and M1.
These things always take far longer to fix than anticipated. I'm in no hurry
Silly question.
is the app a universal binary or apple silicon only ?
Doesn't seem to work on my steam powered Intel MacBook Air ( Sonoma ) but doesn't give me the "bad execution type" error
Thanks
Tony
As far as I can see, the app isnt doing anything special that would vary between intel mac hardware. In fact the source for each version runs just fine here across operating systems. I can open the mac version on th UI on windows (even if the lookups are different).
So I have two questions.
1. Have you got a Ubee512 instance working on your Macbook?
2. Does the UI load at all or does it fail. If it fails with an error (something like dont trust this so we closed it) try:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/path/to/Anthonys Ubee512 Launcher.app"
in terminal to give the launcher persmission to open.
(03-05-2026, 10:31 PM)shane.crozier Wrote: Something that may or may not be something you feel you need to address - using Ubee512 when you're using a HD18 rom - you need to use the "--hdd3=location of disk image file" syntax the -image_a through d doesnt work as these are for the onboard controllers.
Not a biggie
works beautifully within the specification of its design though - a job very well done
It is an instance I have not tried so the feedback is very useful. I have added it to my list of tasks.
This is the type of feedback that helps me move this project from something that just works for me to being useful to others. I apprecate it.
Anthony
Update:
In the latest Git version, I have a cleaned up the following items.
Fixed - CP/M CP (windows only Mac is still iin the queue)
Fixed - Model Select now appends to the build command so you can launch different models from the list
Fixed - Rom select now appends to the build command so you can select any rom
Adjusted Layout (windows and Linux) for more laptop friendly use
The source is the most up to date version of linux. The linux build is still old.
Still to come. Fix model selection for Mac
Repackage linux build.
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - zbfairlane - 05-05-2026
The latest linux build is now updated in github.
The latest Mac build is also available in github. Fixed the selection of different models issue.
RE: UBee512 Launcher UI - fathertedcrilly - 07-05-2026
I have managed to get the latest version running ( both IC and CIAB models )
it does appear that the binaries are Apple Silicon only, which accounts for why it doesn't work on the MacBook Air
Any chance of parsing the rom.alias file and pre-loading the roms based on the model selected ?
Thanks
Tony