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Offline Omega Space ProtonsTopic starter

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Amiga Forever and GCC
« on: October 17, 2010, 05:25:58 AM »
I have purchased Amiga Forever 2010 Plus and am trying to get LouiSe's development environment to work with it. I open up the Amiga Forever Menu and then click on the applications tab. I then double-click Workbench 3.1 and wait for it to load. I click on the screen so the mouse emulation is captured. I then click on the UAEconfig button on the dock. After then option menu appears I enter C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Shared\hdf\gcc.hdf under df0: and click on insert. After a few seconds a floppy disk icon with the name unreadable appears on the desktop. It looks like i am mounting the gcc hard disk file incorrectly in workbench 3.1, but i am not certain as i am new to the Amiga scene. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Amiga Forever and GCC
« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2010, 05:36:47 AM »
It's a hard drive image, not a floppy.

You'll want to select the 3.1 configuration and load it.
Then go to the hard drives section of the launcher and add Louie's hdf file as another drive.
Edit: save this configuration as a new name so you don't have to do it again.
Then launch the emulation.
 

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Re: Amiga Forever and GCC
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2010, 07:03:42 AM »
Just remember though, that the hardfile will contain its own dh0: and dh1:, so if you already have an existing AmigaOS setup (you mentioned AmigaForever, so Im assuming you're using that AmigaOS system?) you may end up with multiple devices with the same name. There's an lha archive of Louises setup as well I beleive, which should make things potentially a little easier, but even without it you just need to grab the ADE folder and copy it to wherever you like on your own AmigaOS setup. From there just edit the ADE-Startup file and change any paths that differ (its using IconX by default so you'll need to 1st open up an editor rather than just double clicking).
Im dont have it in front of me at the moment, so cant be more specifc/exact in details, but hopefully there's enough info in there to get you going. Feel free to ask any more questions though, or for clarification on anything that's not clear.

p.s. Alternatively you can just use the .hdf as is, as your AmigaOS system. It's fairly basic for most things, but quite nice for developing with (albiet a little dated now). Bare in mind it's probably not legal (due to containing amiga os), but I'd be surprised if anyone kicked up a fuss about it, especially if you own legal versions of the files in question (which you would if you owned AmigaForever(or other non copied versions of amiga os files)).
« Last Edit: October 17, 2010, 07:08:38 AM by fishy_fiz »
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.
 

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Re: Amiga Forever and GCC
« Reply #3 on: October 17, 2010, 06:15:47 PM »
How do I get to the 3.1 configuration launcher in the Amiga Forever Menu? The only thing that I can see that resembles that is the UAEconfig button in the workbench 3.1 dock, and there's no button labeled "hard drive" on there. Is the lha file the "soft copy" the tutorial was talking about or is it something completely different?

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Update: I found the WinUAE configuration menu by launching the 3.x workbench environment, waiting for it to load and then pressing F12. I'm going to try adding the hda file to the hard drives section and see what happens.

Update 2: After some fiddling around i managed to get it to work.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2010, 05:20:24 PM by Omega Space Protons »