After learning more about the MAME system, I discovered that it emulates a dinosaur system called Timex Sinclair 1000/1500. WOW! Since I had one of these, I thought it would be cool to load one up and have a look. I reviewed the hash file zx81 and I have the correct rom asteroids.zip/asteroids.tzx CRC is correct. So I start the UI and load the Timex Sinclair 1000. As in my problem with my Atari ROM, I am unable to load it. Same red message files missing. So I run the console from a command line "mame64 zx81 asteroids" and get a list of software with the letter A and asteroids is listed. I even point to the specific file "\mame 64\software\zx81\asteroids" and it still cannot find the file. I wish I understood the XML file for the zx81 better but am at a loss on what I have missed. Can someone point me in a direction on documentation so I can read further on this? I tried the mame64 -showusage but the command list is beyond my buffered output.
Thanks,
John