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asrael22

# 6
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany

For anyone interested, here are my scripts to run WHLoad games from Ambient. I've tried iGame but preferred to use Ambient filebrowser to select the game I want to run.

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Manfred
»17.03.17 - 12:18

Cool_amigaN

# 7
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 761 from 2011/11/30

@asrael22

Thanks, very useful! Installed, up and running (though I still prefer iGame :P).

Btw, the download link seems to make OWB hang, had to use chorme on Android to download it.

I strongly suggest to let Papi use it in his Chrysalis compilation.

Edit: Btw I always wondered whether there could be a script that would launch whdload via e-uae but on double clicking the slave instead of right clicking it..

[ Edited by Cool_amigaN 17.03.2017 - 20:51 ]
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»17.03.17 - 18:49

jPV

# 8
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2096 from 2003/2/24

From: po-RNO

Quote:

Cool_amigaN wrote:
Edit: Btw I always wondered whether there could be a script that would launch whdload via e-uae but on double clicking the slave instead of right clicking it..

Shouldn't it work with asrael22's scripts if you open Ambient's Mime prefs and:

1) Double click Application/x-amigaos-whdload
2) Click Add
3) Name: Run using WHD
4) EventType: DoubleClick
5) Click Add
6) AmigaDOS: run >nil: c:rx sys:prefs/ambient/scripts/uaewhd.rexx "%sp"
7) Ok, Ok, Save

(didn't try)
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»18.03.17 - 09:07

boratintheuk

# 9
Just looking around

Posts: 2 from 2017/3/17

Thanks everyone for the helpful comments, I truly appreciate it. I still haven't installed the OS yet because i've been a bit busy but I did order a new stick of ram to upgrade the my machine completely and soon I'll install morph and play around with it!
»18.03.17 - 20:06

jPV

# 10
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2096 from 2003/2/24

From: po-RNO

Quote:

boratintheuk wrote:
Thanks everyone for the helpful comments, I truly appreciate it. I still haven't installed the OS yet because i've been a bit busy but I did order a new stick of ram to upgrade the my machine completely and soon I'll install morph and play around with it!

You could also check the Library part on this site, and for example Getting Started tutorial :)
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»18.03.17 - 20:26

Cool_amigaN

# 11
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 761 from 2011/11/30

Quote:

jPV wrote:
Quote:

Cool_amigaN wrote:
Edit: Btw I always wondered whether there could be a script that would launch whdload via e-uae but on double clicking the slave instead of right clicking it..

Shouldn't it work with asrael22's scripts if you open Ambient's Mime prefs and:

1) Double click Application/x-amigaos-whdload
2) Click Add
3) Name: Run using WHD
4) EventType: DoubleClick
5) Click Add
6) AmigaDOS: run >nil: c:rx sys:prefs/ambient/scripts/uaewhd.rexx "%sp"
7) Ok, Ok, Save

(didn't try)

Hmm either this doesn't work or (most probably) it poses an incompatibility with UAELoad (wrapper for WHDload/iGame) since I get an error for UAEload: oops wrong set of arguments in Ambient and it just quits :/
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»19.03.17 - 07:54

asrael22

# 12
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany

Quote:

Cool_amigaN wrote:
Quote:

jPV wrote:
Quote:

Cool_amigaN wrote:
Edit: Btw I always wondered whether there could be a script that would launch whdload via e-uae but on double clicking the slave instead of right clicking it..

Shouldn't it work with asrael22's scripts if you open Ambient's Mime prefs and:

1) Double click Application/x-amigaos-whdload
2) Click Add
3) Name: Run using WHD
4) EventType: DoubleClick
5) Click Add
6) AmigaDOS: run >nil: c:rx sys:prefs/ambient/scripts/uaewhd.rexx "%sp"
7) Ok, Ok, Save

(didn't try)

Hmm either this doesn't work or (most probably) it poses an incompatibility with UAELoad (wrapper for WHDload/iGame) since I get an error for UAEload: oops wrong set of arguments in Ambient and it just quits :/

It works.
Make sure you set the Event Type to 'DoubleClick'.
Then you can double click on the .slave file which should start the game.
My script has a problem if the slave extension starts with Upper case letter (.Slave). With lower case it works.
I've corrected that and uploaded a new version.

Manfred
»19.03.17 - 09:04

Cool_amigaN

# 13
Priest of the Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 761 from 2011/11/30

Are you sure that it works with UAELoad also installed? It seems that even after I set the event type on MIME settings, double clicking the .slave from Ambient calls UAEload..
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»19.03.17 - 20:34

asrael22

# 14
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany

Quote:

Cool_amigaN wrote:
Are you sure that it works with UAELoad also installed? It seems that even after I set the event type on MIME settings, double clicking the .slave from Ambient calls UAEload..

Don't know. I don't seem to have UAELoad installed or in PATH.

Manfred
»20.03.17 - 06:44

jPV

# 15
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 2096 from 2003/2/24

From: po-RNO

If it works with RMB, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work with double click too. It's handled exactly the same way in Ambient, just triggered in a different way.
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»20.03.17 - 07:53

Korni

# 16
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...
Quote:

asrael22 wrote:
A script will start UAE and pass the selected game along to UAE which will then get started by WHDLoad.

Thank you for your scripts. So, where is a script which starts UAE?

I modified CallWHD.dos a bit so when a slave is started from Ambient - it starts e-uae and sends commands to it via arexx.
Path is the same in MorphOS as in the emulated AmigaOS. Mounted Games partition.

Code:
```
.KEY folder/A,slavename/A

echo "param1: <folder>"
echo "param2: <slavename>"

Run >NIL: SYS:Tools/e-uae/e-uae -f SYS:Tools/e-uae/Conf/A1200_WHDload.conf
Wait 13 ;estimated boot time, meh
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe Cd <folder>"
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe WHDLoad PRELOAD <slavename>"
```
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»20.03.17 - 22:16

asrael22

# 17
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany
Quote:
Korni wrote:
Quote:

asrael22 wrote:
A script will start UAE and pass the selected game along to UAE which will then get started by WHDLoad.

Thank you for your scripts. So, where is a script which starts UAE?

I modified CallWHD.dos a bit so when a slave is started from Ambient - it starts e-uae and sends commands to it via arexx.
Path is the same in MorphOS as in the emulated AmigaOS. Mounted Games partition.

Code:
```
.KEY folder/A,slavename/A

echo "param1: <folder>"
echo "param2: <slavename>"

Run >NIL: SYS:Tools/e-uae/e-uae -f SYS:Tools/e-uae/Conf/A1200_WHDload.conf
Wait 13 ;estimated boot time, meh
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe Cd <folder>"
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe WHDLoad PRELOAD <slavename>"
```
Well, right.
I forgot to mention that my scripts assume a correctly configured UAELoad setup with a VM that has WHDLoad installed.
The C:WHDLoad script which gets called in CallWHD.dos starts UAE using UAELoad.

But your approach is good as well. Maybe even better as it doesn't require UAELoad.

Manfred

[ Edited by asrael22 21.03.2017 - 09:32 ]
»21.03.17 - 08:24

asrael22

# 18
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany
Quote:
asrael22 wrote:
Quote:
Korni wrote:
Quote:

asrael22 wrote:
A script will start UAE and pass the selected game along to UAE which will then get started by WHDLoad.

Thank you for your scripts. So, where is a script which starts UAE?

I modified CallWHD.dos a bit so when a slave is started from Ambient - it starts e-uae and sends commands to it via arexx.
Path is the same in MorphOS as in the emulated AmigaOS. Mounted Games partition.

Code:
.KEY folder/A,slavename/A

echo "param1: <folder>"
echo "param2: <slavename>"

Run >NIL: SYS:Tools/e-uae/e-uae -f SYS:Tools/e-uae/Conf/A1200_WHDload.conf
Wait 13 ;estimated boot time, meh
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe Cd <folder>"
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe WHDLoad PRELOAD <slavename>"
Well, right.
I forgot to mention that my scripts assume a correctly configured UAELoad setup with a VM that has WHDLoad installed.
The C:WHDLoad script which gets called in CallWHD.dos start UAE using UAELoad.

Manfred
Hmm, not certain. This is already more than a year ago that I had created this all.
This C:WHDLoad is in fact UAELoad I believe. Did I rename this? Not sure anymore.

Manfred

[ Edited by asrael22 21.03.2017 - 09:30 ]
»21.03.17 - 08:28

Andreas_Wolf

# 19
Yokemate of Keyboards

Posts: 12157 from 2003/5/22

From: Germany

> This C:WHDLoad is in fact UAELoad I believe.

Correct.

> Did I rename this?

No. UAELoad is actually named WHDLoad in the original archive.
»21.03.17 - 09:16

igracki

# 20
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 416 from 2003/2/24

From: Berlin

Instead of "Wait 13", you could do "WaitForPort UAE I=1 L=20", this waits max 20 seconds, and checks every second.

[ Edited by igracki 21.03.2017 - 18:22 ]
»21.03.17 - 17:22

Korni

# 21
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...
Quote:

igracki wrote:
Instead of "Wait 13", you could do "WaitForPort UAE I=1 L=20", this waits max 20 seconds, and checks every second.

You will be sending commands to nil this way as UAE port will be ready way before emulated system boots. I've found a solution though.

Create/Modify a file in a system running in e-uae and then get notification on MorphOS, so a command can be send when the emulated system is ready. uae_rcli needs to be quite early in s-s, it doesn't create its own port and has to be run with run.

DOS notification can be get using Magicbeacon, WaitNotify. There is also a new command in the upcoming MorphOS :).

CallWHD:

Code:
```
.KEY folder/A,slavename/A

echo "param1: <folder>"
echo "param2: <slavename>"

Run >NIL: SYS:Tools/e-uae/e-uae -f SYS:Tools/e-uae/Conf/A1200_WHDLoad.conf
WaitNotify.elf T:e-uae-boot
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe Cd <folder>"
RXcmd UAE "uaeexe WHDLoad PRELOAD <slavename>"
;Fancy version below with F12 as a quitkey
;RXcmd UAE "uaeexe WHDLoad SPLASHDELAY=0 QUITKEY=111 PRELOAD SLAVE=<slavename>"
```
euae config:
Code:
```
filesystem=rw,Games:Games:
filesystem=rw,RAM2,RAM:
```
AmigaOS startup-sequence:

Code:
```
C:SetPatch QUIET

Run >NIL: C:uae_rcli

C:Version >NIL:

;...the rest of your s-s

;LoadWB
Echo > RAM2:T/e-uae-boot
;EndCLI >NIL:
```
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»21.03.17 - 21:22

Korni

# 22
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...

http://korni.ppa.pl/temp/WHDLoad_Integration.lha.xz

Scripts improved. Added "wrapper", Ambient filetype action and e-uae conf file.
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»15.04.18 - 14:40

asrael22

# 23
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 404 from 2014/6/11

From: Germany

Great that it was released now.
Nice work.
»02.08.18 - 19:00

DH1

# 24
Just looking around

Posts: 18 from 2013/12/16

Quote:

Korni wrote:
http://korni.ppa.pl/temp/WHDLoad_Integration.lha.xz

Scripts improved. Added "wrapper", Ambient filetype action and e-uae conf file.

Hi all!

Please help Korni!

I installed the WHDLOpener package but the installer indicates an error...

Line: 499
Error message: Unable to create drawer.

PowerBook 1,67 G4
MorphOS 3.11
clean WarmUP Chrysalis 3.11 package

Thx!
»01.12.18 - 07:40

Korni

# 25
Order of the Butterfly

Posts: 472 from 2006/2/23

From: the Planet of ...

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»01.12.18 - 08:48