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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Application questions and support => Topic started by: Fingers on November 09, 2014, 09:32:55 AM

Title: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 09, 2014, 09:32:55 AM

Hi folks,

I've made this mistake before & not using my A1 very often...I forgot & did it again.

Last time the only fix I could figure out was to get rid of RuninUAE & re-eninstall, but there must be a simpler way...
 
Basically, I ran a game from a USB flash drive & now every time I run a game on my HDD it asks for the flash drive & I have to assign the HDD partition the game is on (happens with every game every time, even after assigning the last time with the same game).

It's infuriating & I'm sure there is an easy fix, I just can't figure it out.

Can someone please help me here?

PZ.

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 09, 2014, 10:39:32 AM

So I just replaced the entire "Emulation" folder from a backup before this problem & it's still asking for the USB drive when I run an adf...WTF?!?!

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 09, 2014, 11:14:58 AM

Now reinstalled files to boot partition from the backup & it's still happening.

Time to burn an Amiga in spectacular fashion!!!!

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Ancalimon on November 09, 2014, 11:27:59 AM

Maybe it creates an ENV variable?

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 09, 2014, 12:04:01 PM

Quote from: Ancalimon;776964

Maybe it creates an ENV variable?

Thanks for the reply :)

I'm not a software guy...can you please elaborate?

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: amyren on November 09, 2014, 04:21:59 PM

You should have a drawer named Env in your Ram Disk. (Assigned as Env: ). Check if there is runinuae configuration file in there that you can edit.
Note that there also is a folder sys:envarc (assigned as envarc: ) that gets copied into Ram:Env on every reboot, so if you must change something in that config file it must also be changed in the envarc drawer to be permanent.

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: LiveForIt on November 09, 2014, 07:47:20 PM

Quote from: Fingers;776959

it asks for the flash drive & I have to assign the HDD partition the game is on

assign it to RAM:, then run a different game from the HD.

I think that will fix it.

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 10, 2014, 06:37:49 AM

Thanks for the suggestions folks, however I still have the same problem.

envarc does seem to exist in OS4.1 & assigning the games to RAM doesn't resolve it either.

Thinking I'll just start with a re-install of the entire OS. But knowing a solution would be great for next time I buggerize it! LOL

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: amyren on November 10, 2014, 08:45:34 AM

Did you read these sections regarding the config files? http://cshandley.co.uk/runinuae/#6_16
Also the following section mentiones something about the choice to overwrite the configfiles when reinstalling.

Title: Re: RuninUAE - Ran a game from USB, now it's screwed!
Post by: Fingers on November 10, 2014, 08:55:36 AM

Yeah, that could have been it.

Already restored from a backup & posting again from my uA1 that doesn't look for a certain USB drive when running a game :)

Will look into that the next time I mess it all up!

Cheers :D

Quote from: amyren;777007

Did you read these sections regarding the config files? http://cshandley.co.uk/runinuae/#6_16
Also the following section mentiones something about the choice to overwrite the configfiles when reinstalling.