Amiga game selector

[janikosk78]

Does anyone know if it’s possible to get something like the Amiga Game Selector working, and if so, how? I found the AGS 2.6 real hardware disk image (hdf), but it doesn’t work. I think its size was over 10GB. I recently managed to install OS 3.2 using instructions, but I’m not a professional with these things. 😁

[F0LLETT]

Does anyone know if it’s possible to get something like the Amiga Game Selector working, and if so, how? I found the AGS 2.6 real hardware disk image (hdf), but it doesn’t work. I think its size was over 10GB. I recently managed to install OS 3.2 using instructions, but I’m not a professional with these things. 😁

What happens if you use 3.2 Rom when trying HDF, as that will boot from large drive without issue.

[janikosk78]

The problem seems to be that the HDF image has FullDrive/RDB selected. In WinUAE, the gameselector hdf boots normally. Is there a way to remove this feature or create a new HDF and copy everything into it without rdb feature?

[F0LLETT]

The problem seems to be that the HDF image has FullDrive/RDB selected. In WinUAE, the gameselector hdf boots normally. Is there a way to remove this feature or create a new HDF and copy everything into it without rdb feature?

Yes, under HDD tab in WinUAE, set size you want for new hdf and then click create. Do not tick box for Full RDB.
Then format it in workbench and copy all data from one HDF to other.

[PapaBitman]

Have you had any success in the meantime? Is Amiga Games Selector now running on your A600 GS? I would be happy to receive a reply from you or a short report on your experience. Thanks.

[Twiggy]

Isn't AGS multiple HDF files? It won't let you import multiple HDFs. I guess you'd need to use the custom option for importing?

[F0LLETT]

Isn't AGS multiple HDF files? It won't let you import multiple HDFs. I guess you'd need to use the custom option for importing?

Yep, its just a big hdd with game zips containing WHDLoad stuff.
The problem will be size of drive and kickstart used. Unless it supports large disks, it is not going to work.
Unless you use uaehf.device or folders.

Have you had any success in the meantime? Is Amiga Games Selector now running on your A600 GS? I would be happy to receive a reply from you or a short report on your experience. Thanks.

Have you tried it, using AROS roms? as I would imagine its been fixed for larger drives.

[Twiggy]

Ah ok, so I found that Real Amiga version, which is one giant img file. I copied that into ~/games as AGA and tried launching it on the A600GS.

The result was a prompt for ENV: to be inserted, then pressing cancel resulted in no further progress.

Changing Kick ROM and launching again leaves with just the Kickstart prompt, whether that's using 3.1 or AROS.

It's a start I suppose.

[F0LLETT]

Ah ok, so I found that Real Amiga version, which is one giant img file. I copied that into ~/games as AGA and tried launching it on the A600GS.

The result was a prompt for ENV: to be inserted, then pressing cancel resulted in no further progress.

Changing Kick ROM and launching again leaves with just the Kickstart prompt, whether that's using 3.1 or AROS.

It's a start I suppose.

For env: click cancel and type                  assign ENV: RAM:            then press      enter
Then type           execute s:startup-sequence               then press       enter

See what happens.

[Twiggy]

Hmmm. Trying to add it again, I just get the kick start screen.

Not sure how to get it to kick in.

[Twiggy]

Latest update changes all of that!!

Edit: or maybe it doesn't. After the reboot, it let me boot it. Second attempt it didn't.

After another GS reboot, it lets you load it once, then it afterwards it just does the kickstart screen.

Odd.

[Twiggy]

So, the trick with this is:

- Download the real Amiga AGA AGS version .img file
- Rename it as a .hdf
- Add it via USB or by mounting the SD card (the file is too large for FAT32, so it'll need to be ext4 or some other supported filesystem)
- I used the A4000 model with 3.1 ROM, plus using the maximum memory options available
- Then when it does boot, get a Save State
- Each time you load it from a Save State, it'll throw up some PFS3 errors, so just Reset from the start menu
- Then it boots up!

As said before, it won't launch every time, so it's either reboot the whole GS system or just reboot virtually from within a Save State AGS session.

Is there a way to add more memory to a config?