WHDLoad Games Launcher...

[Darrin]

Oh that looks neat!

Personally, I downloaded KG's WHDLoad packs and placed them in the alphabetic draws.  I just open the draw, find the game and double-click the icon.

[Darrin]

Cheers XDelusion...

I too have all my games in alphabetical drawers, but I compress them all with LZX which means I only have one file per game that hold the disk images, slave file etc..

As I have over 5000 games stored on my HD's this saves a lot of space and the util does all the decompression and launching so it's just a case of selecting the game you want and it's up and running.

Damn, that's a really handy program.

PS.  I could tell Smurf was kidding.  He was taking the piss out of your suggestion that nobody would want this program because it is obviously very nice indeed.

I like the idea of keeping the game in LZX files.  I downloaded KG's games and once unachived and installed along with my Workbench it takes up 4.5GB.  Now that isn't a problem for me because I'm using a 35GB partition on a 80GB Hard Drive, but it would be an issue if I wanted to copy my installion onto a 4GB CF Card to use on an A1200.  There are also the KG "Demos" which I haven't even downloaded yet...

[Darrin]

Hi Darrin,

By the time you get back home, you should have all you need to run my little progy on your set up...

You da man!

We need a new BBC TV show:  "Franko 'ill Fix It"  

[Darrin]

SUGAR !!!

I've just realized Darrin you'll be using NTSC, I'll have to recode it for you, cos it's only in PAL right now. Still it wont take me long to FIX IT... :roflmao:

Hey, I'm BRITISH by birth.  I set my A4000 jumper to PAL.  

NTSC = Never The Same Colour.  Bugger that!  

[Darrin]

Franko, you are such a tease! I would absolutely love to have a game menu such as yours installed on my Amigas, it looks so oldschool too!

Here is currently how I launch my WHDLoad games from Workbench on my A1200, there are a few ways:

First is by the icons, each of which has a nice screenshot or boxscan image for the icons.
Secondly, I can launch them from the ToolsDaemon Games menu which is added to the Workbench menus.
Thirdly, I have Workbench 2000, which not only allows you to add programs to it the same as Windows' Start Menu does, but it also has a fast directory browser to find what you want quickly.

Here's a screenshot of my Workbench 3.1 setup:

That's a hell of a nice OS3.1 setup!

I like that Workbench 2000 bar.  I have a dock running at the moment and it looks so "cluncky".  I'm off to hunt that down on Aminet and then install it when I get home.

Cheers.

[Darrin]

Hi Cammy

Some real neat Icons there, :cool:

I used to launch my games that way too, but when you have over 5000 games to choose from thats a hell of a lot of icons for WB to navigate through (even though they are in separate alphabetical drawers). Well spotted on the retro look thats just what I was trying to achieve...

My system is just like Cammy's.  As you say, it can be a pain to find a game in a single draw full of many others.  KG has a program similar to your's, but your's looks much easier to scroll with.