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The Amiga Games Selecter... 22/1/2012, 01:01
Franko
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Quite a number of years back I wrote for myself a little utility that would allow me to launch all my old games directly from my Amiga's whenever I felt like playing them and thus "The Amiga Games Selecter" was born...
People who have seen this before have asked me to release it so that they could use it too. However I've never got round to releasing it as I'm not sure if folk will be able to set it up properly on their Amiga's...
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to try it out for themselves and give me some feedback on how I can make it easier for anyone to set up and use on their miggies...
I'll explain here first (as best I can) what is involved in using this util, as it was really only ever written for my own use and as such even though I find it easy to set up (mainly cos I wrote it) it might seem a wee bit overly complicated to anyone else who doesn't do things the way I do (which is probably most)...
Basically all my games are stored on a separate partition in drawers labelled A to Z...
Each game and all its associated files (EG: ADF disk images, WHDLoad slave files, data files etc...) are all archived individually with LZX into one file and stored using the games title (whether they be WHDLoad, JST or just "normal" Amiga HD installable games). I use this method to both save storage space and keep things tidy by not having thousands of files from all those games scattered all ove rthe HD...
EG: Snippet of the "A" drawer...
Alfred Chicken CD32
Alien Bash II
Alien Breed
Alien Breed 2
The above for example shows some games from the "A" drawer and are individual LZX archived files holding all the files needed for each game to to run (note: the .lzx extension is not required). Basically when you highlight the game from the selecter util and click on "play selected game" it will unarchive the games files to your RAM: disk (or HD if you don't have enough memory) and run it...
You can place all your games and the things needed to run them on a separate partition (the best & easiest way) or you can just place them in a drawer called "Amiga Games" (for example) with sub drawers/ directories named A to Z with all your LZX archived games placed in the appropriate drawers...
If you chose to put them on their own partition this is the best and easiest way as all the libraries, utils like WHDload, degraders etc... can be stored much more easily and neatly this way instead of having them all stored in your SYS: drawers (C: Libs: etc..)
Like I say it sounds kinda complicated but to me having set things up this way from the start it's actually very easy and a much neater solution for storing and launching all your old games...
Just wondering if anyone would care to have a look at it themselves and see what they think and maybe even suggest some ways I could make it easier for others to set up & use if they want it...
People who have seen this before have asked me to release it so that they could use it too. However I've never got round to releasing it as I'm not sure if folk will be able to set it up properly on their Amiga's...
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to try it out for themselves and give me some feedback on how I can make it easier for anyone to set up and use on their miggies...
I'll explain here first (as best I can) what is involved in using this util, as it was really only ever written for my own use and as such even though I find it easy to set up (mainly cos I wrote it) it might seem a wee bit overly complicated to anyone else who doesn't do things the way I do (which is probably most)...
Basically all my games are stored on a separate partition in drawers labelled A to Z...
Each game and all its associated files (EG: ADF disk images, WHDLoad slave files, data files etc...) are all archived individually with LZX into one file and stored using the games title (whether they be WHDLoad, JST or just "normal" Amiga HD installable games). I use this method to both save storage space and keep things tidy by not having thousands of files from all those games scattered all ove rthe HD...
EG: Snippet of the "A" drawer...
Alfred Chicken CD32
Alien Bash II
Alien Breed
Alien Breed 2
The above for example shows some games from the "A" drawer and are individual LZX archived files holding all the files needed for each game to to run (note: the .lzx extension is not required). Basically when you highlight the game from the selecter util and click on "play selected game" it will unarchive the games files to your RAM: disk (or HD if you don't have enough memory) and run it...
You can place all your games and the things needed to run them on a separate partition (the best & easiest way) or you can just place them in a drawer called "Amiga Games" (for example) with sub drawers/ directories named A to Z with all your LZX archived games placed in the appropriate drawers...
If you chose to put them on their own partition this is the best and easiest way as all the libraries, utils like WHDload, degraders etc... can be stored much more easily and neatly this way instead of having them all stored in your SYS: drawers (C: Libs: etc..)
Like I say it sounds kinda complicated but to me having set things up this way from the start it's actually very easy and a much neater solution for storing and launching all your old games...
Just wondering if anyone would care to have a look at it themselves and see what they think and maybe even suggest some ways I could make it easier for others to set up & use if they want it...
