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bootup to a games menu
« on: October 29, 2010, 11:36:57 PM »
How would you go about making an Amiga that would just boot up to a menu of games (maybe WHDload style)? Kinda like the way MAME machines are setup.
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Re: bootup to a games menu
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 11:59:28 PM »
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How would you go about making an Amiga that would just boot up to a menu of games (maybe WHDload style)? Kinda like the way MAME machines are setup.

You'd write a script for WHDLoad or whatever (a frontend as they call it) and then edit your sys:s/startup-sequence or user-startup file pointing to your frontend so that it'd load a menu of all the games upon startup.  

...already been done IIRC. Might be on Aminet in fact. Sho' nuff, here's one:

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/iGame

...cool idea btw. I've always wanted to do something similar and still may. I have a couple of stripped out arcade cabs sitting around doing nothing. As well as a couple of Amiga mainboards w/ hard cards, etc. Would be extremely easy to "build" an Amiga arcade system  :)
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Re: bootup to a games menu
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2010, 12:22:32 AM »
Ah I figured it had been solved. Thanks 2600. Now I just need a A600...
Hmm, I can see it. I'm gonna route the JOYs to the front...
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Re: bootup to a games menu
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Re: bootup to a games menu
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2010, 12:55:39 AM »
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...and you know about pinouts.ru, right?

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari2600_pinout.shtml

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/AmigaMouseJoy_pinout.shtml

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Oh the easiest ports to re-locate, just need ribbon cable and ICD 9 crimp connectors:


Done it that way many a time.
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Re: bootup to a games menu
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2010, 01:10:59 AM »
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Done it that way many a time.


Cool! Be sure to post some pics of your project when you're done. No need to limit yourself to an A600 mobo though. Be easier to find an A500 or A1200. Shit, I have an A500 mobo nailed to the wall of my computer room, but has a video problem.  lol