More seamless e-uae integration with Linux

[gdanko]

Ugh I cannot send a file. PM me your email address and I will email it.

[gdanko]

The scripts are now in Perl because of some bash limitations. Here are my two biggest issues.
1) Some games have > 4 disks so my goal of dumping the GUI completely may be compromised since uae only allows you to mount 4 drives. I am guessing the Amigas only allowed df0-df3. This is particularly frustrating to me because when you close a game, even with the gui disabled in uaerc, the GUI still comes up. Is there a way to suppress the GUI from coming up after closing the game's windows?

2) I unpacked all my TOSEC stuff to start testing, but their naming conventions don't make sense to me. For example, Silent Service II is two disks but on TOSEC I see this:

Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)(Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)(Disk 2 of 2).adf
(original uncracked game?)

Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[a](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[a](Disk 2 of 2).adf
(what is [a]?)

Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr Paxnt Box].adf
(no idea what this means)

Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2)[a].adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2)[m TSB].adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a2](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a2](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][h LGD].adf

(what is all the SKR stuff???)

If I can better understand what all of this means I can make the routines to find the necessary disks a little more sane.

Any ideas?

[runequester]

SKR would refer to the group that cracked that particular version of the game.
The a usually just indicates a different version of the same disks.
 
And yes, only 4 floppy drives possible.
 

The scripts are now in Perl because of some bash limitations. Here are my two biggest issues.
1) Some games have > 4 disks so my goal of dumping the GUI completely may be compromised since uae only allows you to mount 4 drives. I am guessing the Amigas only allowed df0-df3. This is particularly frustrating to me because when you close a game, even with the gui disabled in uaerc, the GUI still comes up. Is there a way to suppress the GUI from coming up after closing the game's windows?
 
2) I unpacked all my TOSEC stuff to start testing, but their naming conventions don't make sense to me. For example, Silent Service II is two disks but on TOSEC I see this:
 
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)(Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)(Disk 2 of 2).adf
(original uncracked game?)
 
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[a](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[a](Disk 2 of 2).adf
(what is [a]?)
 
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr Paxnt Box].adf
(no idea what this means)
 
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2)[a].adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 1 of 2)[m TSB].adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a2](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a2](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a](Disk 1 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][a](Disk 2 of 2).adf
Silent Service II (1990)(MicroProse)[cr SKR][h LGD].adf
 
(what is all the SKR stuff???)
 
If I can better understand what all of this means I can make the routines to find the necessary disks a little more sane.
 
Any ideas?

[CSixx]

There are multi-disk games that will only use df0 also.
I remember this being an annoyance back in the day. May need to keep the UI around for this.

[runequester]

There are multi-disk games that will only use df0 also.
I remember this being an annoyance back in the day. May need to keep the UI around for this.

This is true. Psygnosis seems to have been particularly bad about this

[TheBilgeRat]

This is true. Psygnosis seems to have been particularly bad about this

Also bad when using adfblitz to move games back to floppy.

[runequester]

Also bad when using adfblitz to move games back to floppy.

It gives trouble with that ? Any ways around it?

[amigadave]

Hello Gary,

Great to see you still interested in the Amiga.  I was afraid that you were losing all interest in it. UAE of any flavor sure takes a lot less space than all the Classic hardware that you used to have (thanks again).

I hope you and your family (or without them if they do not want to come with you) can make it up to my place some time over the 24th & 25th of July to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Amiga's presentation at the Lincoln Center in 1985.

Edit: Almost forgot, congratulations on your work with E-UAE mentioned in this thread.  I would love to have you e-mail me both the 32bit and 64bit versions once you are done working on them.

[gdanko]

I am going to adhere to the TOSEC naming convention and leave it up to the user to properly organize things. I will search for (Disk x of x).adf at the end of the filename. If that exists, the rest will be the basis for which I will add disks.

It's a pain to try and cover every possible scenario. Perhaps I can modify the uae source and have it NOT call up the configurator when the game window closes.

Hmmmmm

[adolescent]

Should also try PUAE as E-UAE is not updated.

[gdanko]

Hello Gary,

Great to see you still interested in the Amiga.  I was afraid that you were losing all interest in it.

No, you saw my garage. I had to organize it.
I am keeping a 3500, 1200, 600, 2500 (loaded), TT030, Falcon.

[gdanko]

No luck with puae:

root@gdanko-desktop:/usr/local/puae/bin# ./uae -f ../var/uaerc
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
P-UAE 2.2.0
Build date: Jun  1 2010 08:23:56
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 1995-2002 Bernd Schmidt
          1999-2010 Toni Wilen
          2003-2007 Richard Drummond
          2006-2010 Mustafa Tufan

See the source for a full list of contributors.
This is free software; see the file COPYING for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Found 0 joystick(s)
X11GFX: Raw key-mapping disabled.
X11GFX: Initialized.
Max Z3FastRAM 1536M. Total physical RAM 2005 0M
Found 0 joystick(s)
X11GFX: Raw key-mapping disabled.
Opening cfgfile '/home/gdanko/.uaerc': failed
failed to load config '/home/gdanko/.uaerc'
Found 0 joystick(s)
X11GFX: Raw key-mapping disabled.
Opening cfgfile '.uaerc': failed
Opening cfgfile '../var/uaerc': okay.
Opening cfgfile '../var/uaerc': okay.
Testing the RDTSC instruction ... done.
TSC frequency: 2394.000000 MHz
Found 0 joystick(s)
X11GFX: Raw key-mapping disabled.
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.0".
NATMEM: Our special area: 0x0xa781e000-0x0xb781e000 (10000000 256M)
shmget of size 65536 (64k) for rtarea
SHMAddr rtarea 0xf00000 = 0x0xa871e000 - 0x0xa781e000
VirtualAlloc 00F00000 - 00F10000 10000 (64k) ok
Segmentation fault

[gdanko]

Sorry guys for lagging. Been playing with MorphOS 2.5 on my Mini. Here is the udpate.

* I've worked with Fab1 to get some nice custom a500 and a1200 configs.
* The scripts now work this way: When you double click on a file, the script looks for "(Disk x of y).adf" at the very end. If that string exists, the script will hunt for all files in the disk set. ie; "Silent Service 2 (Disk 1 of 2).adf", "Silent Service 2 (Disk 2 of 2).adf", etc. If you have a non-standard disk filename "Silent Service 2 Disk 1.adf" then only THAT disk will be mounted. I wanted to conform to TOSEC's naming convention.. Deal with it.
* The install script is ready. It will detect 32 and 64 bit and install the correct version.
* I still have not scripted the mapping of the adf files to the perl scripts yet. Been busy.

I've sent the 32 bit version to a couple folks to test. If you would like to try it out, PM me.

[gdanko]

I was able to patch e-uae so that when you close a game, the GTK GUI configurator doesn't come up. If your game takes more than four disks you can still use F12 - F[1-4] to switch disks into DF[0-3]. We're almost ready for prime time.

[gdanko]

I have a new 64 bit tarball ready. It includes the latest scripts, timestamps for the log, and an install script. Monday morning I will build a 32 bit binary and add it to the tarball. Anyone who wants to try the 64 bit binary, PM me and I will send it off. No more stupid GUI to deal with. Double click your ADF and go.

[gdanko]

A have put a tarball online with both 32 and 64 bit binaries.
The install script determines your arch with uname -m. i386 or i686 = 32 bit. x86_64 = 64 bit. If you have a different 32 bit uname -m output then let me know and I will add it in. I should have put in i586, too. Anyway.

http://www.gdanko.net/uae-linux.tgz

DNS is still propagating so if you get a timeout add a hosts entry with the IP: 208.179.76.5

Let me know how it works for you. Don't forget, you need to add your own ROMs.
kick13.rom for A500 and kick.rom for A1200.