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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: AmiKit on October 25, 2005, 04:00:16 PM

Title: Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
Post by: AmiKit on October 25, 2005, 04:00:16 PM

Hello!

I'd like to support AmigaForever2005 Online Edition in my AmiKit (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46216).

There are some hints how to locate installed AF2005 files here (http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-110.html) and here (http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-102.html). Thomas has helped me with pasting this information to Amiga side by using this PC script:

@echo off
echo >amikit\prefe\env-archive\amigaforeverdata %AMIGAFOREVERDATA%

Once the information is at Amiga side, I just need to convert this Win path to Amiga path (that means to convert Win backslashes "\" to Amiga slashes "/".

Could you please tell me how to do that in AmigaDOS please?
Thanks a lot!!!

Title: Re: Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
Post by: amigadave on October 25, 2005, 04:36:30 PM

I am a user of Amiga Forever since version #2 and currently use AF2005 almost everyday, but I am not sure I understand your question.  Once installed on a Windows system, the Amiga emulation used in AF2005 should not be any different if it was installed from the "Online Edition" download or from the actual CD-ROM that was delivered with the two additional DVD's of video content, so I must assume that the first part of your statement really means that you want your "AmiKit" to work with the files installed on a Windows computer by AF2005.

Locating the AF2005 files can be done from the Windows OS or from the Amiga emulated OS from the Cmd Prompt or from an Amiga Shell (if that is how you want to find them instead of using a graphical interface, or as I assume you are writing a command script to execute in "AmiKit" that will run from Amiga OS after one has started AF2005)

I am not a user who has ever seen or used AIAB, but when I heard about your "AmiKit", my initial thought was that it would appear as a configuration choice in the WinUAE setup screen/window.  Obviously I was not correct, but think about that as a possibility.

Another idea is to make a simple and complete installation CD-ROM with Amiga OS preference settings, background images, patches, hacks, etc. and added program content that installs and configures itself with a double click of its icon after you place your CD into a running Amiga emulation or real Amiga.

Could you please enlighten me as to what "AmiKit" is going to be and how it will work?

Thanks and sorry for the long reply.

Title: Re: Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
Post by: AmiKit on October 25, 2005, 05:07:19 PM

thanks for the answer, I apologoze for not being so clear:

When the AmiKit (package full of proggies, independent from AF2005) is started for the first time, it asks the user for some source of the AmigaOS files (because these OS files cannot be part of the AmiKit's archive, ofcourse). Therefore the user has to insert her/his original AmigaOS3.9 CD (or 3.5 or XL or AF2005 CD) and the OS files will be copied to Amikit. From this point the AmiKit is fully functional and independent filesystem.

Like I said, I'd like to support AF2005 Online Edition (that doesn't come with a CD) as a source of OS files for AmiKit...

So once I know where AF2005 is installed (via %AMIGAFOREVERDATA% variable) I use AmigaDOS script that copies these files from PC side to AmiKit's filesystem. The only problem is that the PC variable consists Windows-like backslashes. I need to convert them to Amiga slashes, so I can use this path with AmigaShell.

Title: Re: Need a help with AmigaDOS and AF2005
Post by: jkirk on October 25, 2005, 07:03:48 PM

shouldn't the emulator you are using handle this automatically?

i mean it should be no different from copying from the cd though you may have to mount the pc drive as a hard disk.