something (GUI) to launch games

[Jope]

Well, if you don't need anything flashy, just do it like all the lamers did with their packdisks back in the day, when the future was bright and Commodore wasn't dead:

Create a text file with the numbers and corresponding games in it:

1 - excellent game
2 - even better game
3 - this game isn't very good but my sister wants to play it

then in your s:startup-sequence:

type menu <- or what ever you named the above text file
cd sys:launchdir

now in sys:launchdir you make shell scripts that launch each game:

The following will have the name "1"

cd sys:games/excellentgame
assign excellentgame: ""
excellentgame

or what ever the game needs to get going.

Protect these numbered scripts SRWED so you don't have to use the execute command.

protect 1 srwed

(how difficult ;-)

Now, when you boot the machine, the startup-sequence first types the menu to the screen, then changes into the directory where your start scripts are.

Then you press 1 and the script called 1 starts and loads the game.

Of course you probably want to rename your original startup-sequence as something else so you can boot the machine normally when you want to..

And I don't want to hear you saying it's hard! It isn't, just do it one step at a time and ask for clarifications. In the same time you'll learn something about AmigaDOS.

Good luck! :-)

[Jope]

Come on, you'll never learn if you don't try. This doesn't need a coder, just a person who's willing to give it a go. ;-)

[Jope]

My lame example was something that replaces the entire startup-sequence.. (of course rename the original first so you don't lose it)

Basically if you want to run games, you usually don't need all that stuff that is loaded in the normal startup, just setpatch..

Then if you want to run the normal startup, you can make a number-script for that too or just execute s:startup-sequence.original or whatever you decided to call it.

I assume the machine will be used mainly for playing games?