Launchers or multiple script files, linux emulation?

[cgutjahr]

http://www.subcultureproductions.com/dosgames.jpg

This is what my game launcher looks like:

http://gutjahr.free.fr/temp/game_launcher.png

I would really like to do this for amiga games, demos and apps as well with uae.

1. Configure UAE (FS-UAE strongly recommended) to emulate the machine of your choice, using a directory on your HD as a harddrive. Install the OS version and the game(s) of your choice.

2. in S:Startup-Sequence, above the "IF EXISTS S:User-Startup" block, add this:

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IF EXISTS S:user-startup2
  Execute S:user-startup2
EndIF


3. Save the FS-UAE config you're using to disk, e.g. "myconfig.fs-uae"

4. For any Amiga game you want to run from Linux, create a bash script looking like this:

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echo "vidoff\ncd hd:Games/SomeGameDir\nSomeGameExe" > /path_to/the_amiga_S:_directory/on_your_linux_filesystem/user-startup2
fs-uae /path/to/myconfig.fs-uae --fullscreen=1
rm /path_to/the_amiga_S:_directory/on_your_linux_filesystem/user-startup2

(the "vidoff" command simply turns the screen to black until the game starts, no idea where I got it. just leave out the "vidoff\n" part if you can't locate it on Aminet)

What it does? Generate a custom user startup, run UAE with desired configuration, delete custom user startup once UAE is finished.

If you want to run a WHDLoad game, there's no game executable to start. Use

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whdload slave=Benefactor.slave PRELOAD


instead.

WIth the above approach, you can run FS-UAE with your config file to boot into Workbench for installing new games, adding required libs or deleting stuff. Or you can run a particular game directly from Linux just by invoking its bash script.