Starting eau in linux with different configs.

[haywirepc]

Can anyone post some insight into loading amiga programs direct from the the linux desktop using eau and different config files?

For example, I'd like to just load dpaint V from ADF in a window on my linux system.  I thought I just copy the original config to a different location, change it to load the adf at the first floppy then call that config file in the command line to start eau but I'm having problems.
 
Any insights, I would really appreciate. On my linux box, I have like a few hundred MSDOS games and applications which run by linux icons/shortcuts. I would very much like to do the same thing with amiga applications and games.
 
Any help I would appreciate.
 
Steven

[haywirepc]

bump!

[lsmart]

... direct from the the linux desktop using eau and different config files?

Do you mean UAE? or E-UAE? I have never heared of a program called eau. (Would be a nice name though.)

I´d assume you´d simply create a uaerc for every adf you want to start and make a bash script to run uae with it. Depending on your desktop environment, you might do something to make the script clickable.

Was this what you were thinking of? RTFM: man uae

EDIT Oh, wait! aparently UAE prefers you go with one single .uaerc in your $HOME.

uae -s floppy0=/usr/home/haywirepc/adfs/dpaintiv.adf

should do the trick.

[fishy_fiz]

http://www.aosolin.org/

Lets you run amiga apps simply by double clicking thier icons without needing to deal with Workbench (even hd installed software)

[haywirepc]

lsmart, you are right, I mean UAE.

Since my linux distro (Vectorlinux) does not have a UAE package in the repositories, I installed it from the amikit linux install.

Your floppy idea works, but I would prefer a seperate config file for each application or game so that each program can be tweaked to run the best it can. Also, I'd like to be able to use apps that use multiple floppies.

I was able to get this working by modifying the shell script that comes with amikit/uae Alaunch is a folder which will contain all the different
config files...

#!/bin/bash
/home/steven/Amiga-AmiKit/uae -f /home/steven/alaunch/dpaint.euaerc

Now I have the gui option set to no, so it starts on its own, but does anyone know how to tell UAE to not show the gui when you exit?

Right now I click on my linux shortcut, dpaint starts, works, but then when I exit the GUI comes up. I'd prefer to make it as seemless as possible and not have to exit the UAE gui when I end a game or application.

Thanks for any thoughts guys. It will be cool to have like 1,000 dos games along with a few thousand amiga apps and games all point and click to run with dosbox or UAE.

Will take awhile to set up all the configs, but to me it will be worth it to have everything all integrated on one desktop.

Best regards,

Steven