Configuration
Bintracker's behavior and appearance can be configured in a different ways. The most common way is to set various configuration options in the configuration file. You can also temporarily change some of these options by using Bintracker's built-in repl. Furthermore, any user code may read and change configuration options, as well as register new ones.
Bintracker has a powerful configuration system. Not just the look and feel, but just about any aspect of how Bintracker works can be modified.
Main Configuration File: config.scm
On startup, Bintracker loads and evaluates the file config/config.scm. Through this file, you can set the color theme, font, configure keybindings, activate plugins, and run user code to tweak Bintracker's behavior.
The default configuration file that comes with Bintracker documents further details. Just read it to learn more about available configuration options.
Key Bindings
You can supply your custom keymap by copying one of the maps provided in config/keymaps and changing bindings according to your needs. The key specifier must use Tk's angular bracket syntax. Make sure your keymap has a unique name and uses the .keymap extension. To enable your keymap, use (load-keymap "MAP-NAME"") in the main configuration file.
You can also use the main configuration file to override selected key bindings with the bind-keys! procedure.
WARNING
Do not rebind keyboard shortcuts that would normally trigger a menu action, as this may cause the user interface to become unstable.
Color Schemes
You can tweak Bintracker's color schemes, or provide your own. See config/color-schemes for some pre-defined examples. To load a color scheme, run (colors 'load "SCHEME-NAME") in the main configuration file.
Emulation Configuration
Bintracker relies on external tools for emulation. You can configure these tools by editing the file config/emulators.scm on *nix, and config/emulators.windows.scm on Windows. The respective files contain a list in the format
EMULATOR-ID is an arbitrary, unique identifier for the list entry. PATH-TO-EXECUTABLE is either the name of an installed executable, a full path to an executable, or a path relative to Bintracker's base directory. LIST-OF-ARGS is a list of command line arguments that will be passed to the emulator.
Currently, Bintracker supports only MAME as emulation back-end. On *nix, Bintracker expects MAME to be installed on the system as mame64. On Windows, Bintracker expects mame.exe in 3rdparty\mame. You can change this behavior (for example to use a system installed MAME on Windows) by editing the program-name parameter. Bintracker expects ROM files to be located in roms. You can change this by supplying a different value to the -rompath argument.
Target System Configuration
You can add support for additional target systems by adding an MDAL target specification in mdal-targets, and an entry to config/systems.scm. The target specification takes the format
(id: "SYSTEM-ID"
cpu: CPU-ID
clock-speed: N
default-start-address: S
exports: (ADDITIONAL-FORMATS...))
SYSTEM-ID is a string uniquely identifying the target system. CPU-ID names the system's main CPU (see mdal-targets/cpu for a list of supported CPUs.) N is the system's clock speed in Hertz. S is the default entry point for machine code. ADDITIONAL-FORMATS... may specify additional export formats (currently only supports ZX Spectrum .tap).
systems.scm contains a list in the format
SYSTEM-ID is a string naming an MDAL target specified in mdal-targets. EMULATOR-ID is the identifier for the emulator to use, as specified in emulators[.windows].scm. STARTUP-ARGS is a list of additional arguments to be passed to the emulator on the command line. For MAME, this list must at least contain the MAME name of the target system (see the Arcade Database for a list of valid names).
Temporary Tweaks Using The REPL
All the configuration options available through config.scm can also be set in the built-in REPL. However, changes made here are only temporary. That means those changes will not persist through an application restart.
Configuration options set throught the console may not take effect immediately. To force a refresh after your changes, you can try to call the reconfigure procedure without any arguments. Currently there is no guarantee that this will work.
You can check your current configuration settings using the settings and colors procedures.