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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: diynot on March 24, 2015, 07:14:55 pm

Title: Acorn Archimedes Emulation Help (long shot!)
Post by: diynot on March 24, 2015, 07:14:55 pm

Hi

I have found several Acorn Archimedes emulators which allow me to boot up Risc OS and then open games by inserting a .ADF floppy image and running the program files.

I was wondering if there is a way of starting any one of the emulators with a command / start up switch which auto boots a particular disk image / ADF file. I'd like to be able to load my favourite Acorn games from a front end on my "MAME" arcade cabinet.

Any suggestions welcome!

Cheers
Lee

Title: Re: Acorn Archimedes Emulation Help (long shot!)
Post by: eds1275 on March 25, 2015, 07:48:23 pm

I'm not familiar with that/those programs, but it may be possible to write a batch file script to fire it up.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Batch-files-that-open-multiple-programs/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Batch-files-that-open-multiple-programs/)

I have done this with several programs that I use in tandem.

Title: Re: Acorn Archimedes Emulation Help (long shot!)
Post by: Minwah on March 26, 2015, 10:35:59 am

I believe Arculator *may* allow launching a disk from commnandline, but I haven't tried that specifically - I will give it a try.

If you know of an Archimedes emulator that allows low resolutions then let me know!