Well I thought christmas had come early when I came across uaeload on aminet.

http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/UAELoad.lha

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So I got all files I needed.

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slightly confused by this bit!

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Guessing they meant I need these files in the main euae directory, and amigaOS3.x will be the contents of workbench disk? and the C and S folder from WHDload should be placed in the Euae directory? also notice uae_rcli is in a sub directory in euae! do i need to move this?

also I'm guessing theres a mistake as the program looks for whdload.conf but the only thing I can find is WHDload.prefs!

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Well ive been messing about with it and completely disregarded the "In E-UAE" bit and setup my configurations and now have an error message:

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Has anyone managed to get this to run?








[ Edited by TGR on 2009/12/5 23:45 ]

Actually, "In E-UAE" means "In your E-UAE filesystems".

You must have a working AmigaOS 3.x installation within E-UAE.
You must have uae_rcli installed and running in this AmigaOS 3.x installation.
You must have WHDLoad (the real one) installed in this AmigaOS 3.x installation.
You must have some installed WHDLoad games in this AmigaOS 3.x installtion.

About "WHDLoad.conf", it is the name of the configuration file E-UAE should be runned with (it has nothing to do with WHDLoad.prefs which is the preference file of your WHDLoad (the real one) installation in your AmigaOS 3.x under E-UAE).
This filename is the default one. It is just an example. Did you edit the ENV/UAELoad.cfg to meet your configuration? You have some configuration example in the Bonus drawer you could copy to the Conf drawer of your E-UAE installation.

About the reported error "no shared path", it just means that the game you expected to launch is not accessible under your E-UAE filesystems. Just add a filesytem entry in your E-UAE configuration file (the one you use in UAELoad.cfg) that can access theses files.

For example, if your installed WHDLoad games are in "Extra:Games/WHD", you can just add this kind of entry:
filesystem2=rw,DATA:Games:Extra:Games/WHD,-1

Then, UAELoad will trigger where the files are under U-UAE.

I would also remind you that there's something similar in UAE archive itself (see bonus/).

@ Jeckel

Thank you for the help and explanation


@FAB

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I've never been able to get any whdload games to load always just get the boot screen. Works perfect for single ADF's, but most of the amiga games I play are 2 or more disks hence where whdload load comes in handy with the single file.

Do i need to change tooltype for the whdload files? No doubt its something I'm missing

Two issues on this
1) running e-uae resulted in "failed to load kickstart" I had copied OS3.9 into e-uae folder [files-s,pref,c ect.]
2) was it supposed to go into roms, or is that for whdgames? Running igame also resulted in galaga'92 hanging, unable to quit


[ Edited by xyphoid on 2009/12/6 19:09 ]

@xyphoid

You need a rom image as well as the OS files.

I managed to get it to work

And what it does,
it loads up a full screen e-uae workbench and then you can go into your games partition and load the game you want!

Whatever game you select from morphos desktop in igame will load workbench where you select the game

Great work Jeckel and thank you again for the more detailed instructions

I have one problem left but I think thats a mos issue.

1.3 kicks are in the Rom folder, still get a request for them when double clicking e-uae. Get a window which disappears immediately.

Just configure the config file rom path option accordingly.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP 11.06.2011 - 08:13 ]

This is how I setup UAELoad to work on my system, so it will give you an idea on how its meant to be setup. if you copy my guide it should work on yours


Requirements:
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On your computer:
iGame (http://igame.amigahellas.gr)
E-UAE_0.8.29-WIP4 ()
STool (optional, http://aminet.net/package/util/cli/STool15)
AMIGAOS 3.x
kick40068.A1200

Installation:
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First create a folder in system: ( I called mine Amiga) then inside that drawer! create a new folder called E-uae, and place the system files of E-UAE_0.8.29-WIP4 into it.

Copy uae_rcli from E-UAE_0.8.29-WIP4/amiga/ into Sys:C/

Now add the following line to your startup-sequence " run >nil: c:uae_rcli " after LoadWB (Ambient > Execute command "ed s:startup-sequence ")

Now still inside the Sys:Amiga/E-UAE/ drawer create 3 more new folders and call them Workbench,Games and Demos

I installed OS3.9 into the folder called Workbench (in E-UAE). I needed to take amigaguide.datatype and text.datatype from the OS3.9CD and place them in sys:Libs/DataTypes/ for the install to work (DataTypes does,nt exist in Sys:libs).

Next open the WHDLoad package and view all files and
Copy whdload C: drawer to SYS:Amiga/E-UAE/Workbench
Copy whdload S: drawer to SYS:Amiga/E-UAE/Workbench

Open the STool archive and place STool into Sys:C/

Open the UAELoad archive and copy UAEload:C/whdload to Sys:C/

Open UAELoad:Bonus and copy MorphOS-UAELoad.conf to Sys:Amiga/E-UAE/Conf/
Now open MorphOS-UAELoad.conf and set your filepaths (My Config below)

MorphOS-UAELoad.conf
filesystem2=rw,System:Workbench:System:Amiga/E-UAE/Workbench,0
filesystem2=rw,System:Games:System:Amiga/E-UAE/Games,-1
filesystem2=rw,System:Demos:System:Amiga/E-UAE/Demos,-1

kickstart_rom_file=System:Amiga/E-UAE/Roms/kick40068.A1200
make sure the file is called kick40068.A1200 and not kick40068.A1200.rom

Now open UAELoad:env and configure UAELoad.cfg (my conf below)

UAELoad.cfg
uaeexe = sys:Amiga/E-UAE/e-uae
uaecfg = sys:Amiga/E-UAE/Conf/MorphOS-UAELoad.conf
uaescr = sys:C/STool
uaepri = 1
timeout = 15

Now save UAELoad.cfg to Sys:Prefs/Env-Archive

And place some WHDload games into Sys:Amiga/E-UAE/Games.

Open the igame archive and place the igame folder into Sys:Amiga/E-UAE/

Configure igame: start igame: left click, settings>Game Repositories and point it to Sys:Amiga/E-UAE/Games and remember to click add!

Now open igame>Actions/Scan Repositories.

Now reboot MorphOS and start igame, it doesnt matter what game you select as it will open a workbench window and you go into your games folder and select which game you want to play.



[ Edited by TGR on 2009/12/7 19:18 ]

Hmm, there is a mistake here.
uaescr should be set to "n/a" to enable the "screentofront" feature ("n/a" represents the name of the unamed E-UAE screen as explained in the readme).

My ambient screen got screwed up some how, not exactly sure how or why, but windows wont open, mouse click under text wont execute,graphics are altered as if no 3d layers, icons wont so up in opened windows.limited to shell. I think I'm done!!

Velcro
Those Roms are still intellectual property of Amiga inc... and need to be licensed

@TGR

I've made a script that doesn't require arexx or config editing. the script mounts the game or application dir automatically for you, and it let you pass assigns to it.
This script does't check if e-uae is running. so it is necessary to quit e-uae before you can start another game or application.

This is what you have to do:

1. download uae-start.lha and unpack it to ram:
2. download the following files and unpack them all to ram:

http://fabportnawak.free.fr/uae/e-uae-0.8.29-WIP3.lha
http://aminet.net/util/cli/WBRun_fix.lha

3. move and rename ram:e-uae-0.8.29-WIP3/e-uae.sdl to ram:UAE/uae
4. move ram:UAE map to somewhere on your hd (for example "Work:Emulation/") and make an assign to it in s:user-startup
for example "Assign UAE: Work:Emulation/UAE"
5. move ram:sys/prefs/ambient/filetypes/internal/x-morphos-globalaction-file to sys:prefs/ambient/filetypes/internal/
6. Copy your AmigaOS 3.x installation map to UAE: and rename it to wb
7. move ram:WBRun/WBRun to UAE:wb/c/
and ram:WBRun/parm.library to UAE:wb/libs/
8. Copy your Amiga 3.x rom to UAE:Roms/ and rename it to kick.rom
9. Add the following text to UAE:wb/s/Starup-Sequence after LoadWB and before EndCLI

If exists ramtemp:file NOREQ
cd APP:
Execute >NIL: TMP:file
Endif

Now reboot

To start any whd-game or application, right-click on it in Ambient and select "RUN in UAE"

To pass assings, do this,

Make a new text-file, add any assign you need. something like this:

Assign AMOS: APP:
Assign Libs: APP:Libs ADD

"APP:" is needed because thats the root directory of your application
Now save it to the application-dir and name it "uae-startup"

EDIT1: Something went wrong, I don't see my attechment
EDIT2: You can download uae-start.lha here: http://members.lycos.nl/dehbi/uae-start.lha


[ Edited by deb on 2009/12/8 18:43 ]

Thanks deb . I'll try that out and let you know my results

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For such a usage from Ambient menu, I would suggest you to use the simple REXX script Fab told you about instead.
It's really the easiest way (but for typical WHDLoad usage, I think iGame is nice).

I'm being greedy and have the 3 installs . I know most of this stuff is simple to you guys, but to me its an achievement to get them working.

I like the way that I've managed to get your script to work, I'm guessing when you click on an igame game its meant to open that game? but the way I've done it, its more like an amikit version for MorphOS (don't know how I've managed that)

my setup is above maybe, I've missed something out?

wasn't quite sure what to do with stools! or how to get it to run.

[ Edited by TGR on 2009/12/8 21:57 ]

@Jeckel

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With all due respect to Fab, could you tell me why you think that my script is not as easy and simple as the script of Fab?

I'm using the tutorial from obligement (thanks guys!) but i have one problem. Where can I find configuration for keyboard? I mean - how can i check what keys are mapped with kbd1, 2 and 3? Is there any way of making my own keyboard config?

Thanks, i havent configured it yet, but will get done !!

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For example, if your installed WHDLoad games are in "Extra:Games/WHD", you can just add this kind of entry:
filesystem2=rw,DATA:Games:Extra:Games/WHD,-1

Then, UAELoad will trigger where the files are under U-UAE.
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ok managed to not screw up this time, but getting the same error
for morphos-uaeload.config I have....

filesystem2=rw,DH0:Workbench:mymorphos:Amigaemulation/E-UAE/Workbench,0
filesystem2=rw,DATA:Games:mymorphos:Amigaemulation/Games,-1
filesystem2=rw,DH2:Demos:mymorphos:Amigaemulation/Demos,-1

kickstart_rom_file=mymorphos:Amigaemulation/Roms/kick40068.A1200
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and the uaeload.cfg is

uaeexe = mymorphos:Amigaemulation/E-UAE/e-uae
uaecfg = mymorphos:AmigaEmulation/E-UAE/Conf/MorphOS-UAEload.conf
uaescr = n/a
uaepri = 1
timeout = 10
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What am I not seeing right guys?

ok I'm up and going now few issues though
1) get a pop-up about uae not ready check installation of uae-rcli...boots slowly. I go to the booted screen and aos3is up and going
2) how do i intergrate joypad contol poseidon?
3) how do you quit?
4) how do you use hdf?
5) using pal hi res anything better? (without the flickr)
6) how do you set up the bonus scripts not sure if I did it correctly is it just the scripts which go in sys:prefs/ambient, or the folder

[ Edited by xyphoid on 2010/7/26 10:28 ]