Save game in Monkey Island 1 ...

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F5 :-)

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Einstein wrote:
I have tried, nothing happens, I've checked the "input" section in "soft" part, and the F1-F9 "input sources" have the corresponding "target (some word here)" as F1-F9, yet nothing happens as I push those buttons !  :-(

How odd, download ScummVM and run it in that, that should solve your problems :-)

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Einstein wrote:
What's ScummVM, and exactly what does it do ?

ScummVM is a new scripting engine that can run the LucasARTS games files.

Copy all the game data from the MI disks to the ScummVM directory and run the game using ScummVM, which has a standard load save interface :-)

You will need SDL installed to run ScummVM!

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Einstein wrote:
(oh no, no further installings please), What's SDL bloodline ? (there's no end to my miseries, is it ?  :-) )

Hmmm...

Well, what are you running on?

If it's Amiga, then as long as you have a Hard drive ScummVM will work... if it's PC then ScummVM is the way to go!

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Einstein wrote:
Ok, I'm running it on a: P4 2,4 GHz with windows XP !
Whats the problem really, I mean if I create a disk image in the WinUAE (in the saveimages dir), then if the f5 would actually work, shouldnt the emu do whatever the code in the game commands it to do, which is to write to the disk (that I created) ? I guess I'll not experience that though since the damn fX wont even respond.

Anyway, so you say I ONLY need ScummVM ? what was that SDL (or something) ?

Boot up WinUAE with the PC drives mounted, copy all the files from the MI disks to a directory on your PC hard drive. Close WinUAE.

Then download ScummVM and install it on your PC (SDL will be installed automatically).

Run ScummVM, a requester will pop up asking you to locate the game files... point it to where ever you copied the game data too... then you can run MI in a window on your PC (No disk swapping and super fast loading etc..) :-)

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Einstein wrote:
Ok this is getting clearer, two blurred point remain though:

1. What do you mean "Boot up WinUAE with the PC drives mounted", what PC drives ?

2. Does ScummVM actuallly run on top of UAE or does it have it's own emu ? (unnecessary but interesting to know)

1. in the HardDrives section tick the "Mount PC drives at startup" option.

2. ScummVM is able to run the Monkey Island game data files without emulation on your PC :-)

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Einstein wrote:
The question that arises then must be: where does WinUAE then fit an all this ? cant ScummVM take care of the adf-images itself ?

Nope, only WinUAE can read the ADF images. so you need that to get the Monkey Island data from the amiga disk files to the PC drive.

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Einstein wrote:
Ok, finally clarified, with one exception, you said boot WinUAE with PC drives mounted (ticked) in hardfiles section ... hmmm why do I have the feeling that I'm confused again, hehe, not funny though !

You just need to be able to access the PC hard drive from the Amiga Side of the UAE emulator so that you can get the files from the Amiga disk images to the PC :-)

ScummVM will run all loads of Graphic adventure games, I use it on my PDA and I love it.

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Or Workbench or Dopus, whatever you prefer to use.