Headkaze UAEConfiguration tool

[unclet]

I downloaded headkaze's UAE Configuration tool and the "readme.txt" states the following:

"This program will take a collection of ROMs and create uae configuration files
for them based on a single uae config file. It will attempt to place disk series
into floppy0 to floppy4 and in disk swapper. Press END+1-0 to swap disks in emulator."

What does Press END+1-0 mean?

It seems like this swaps a disk from the "disk swapper" into a "floppy drive", but I can not understand what keys to press to do this?

Example:

Say there is an Amiga game with 10 disks.   I would the first disc would be loaded into the first floppy drive (ie: floppy0) and the rest of the disks would be loaded in the "disk swapper" (locations 1 thru 9).    When it comes time to swap a disk, I am not sure how to swap "disk swapper 1" with "floppy0"

Any ideas what Press END+1-0 means?

[headkaze]

On your Num Pad is Home, PgUp, PgDn and End. You Press End plus a number key to swap out a disk from the swapper into the disk drive.

[unclet]

This is what I figured , although I guess I got confused when seeing the "-" character in your "readme.txt" file. .... so I guess the WinUAE keyboard shortcut to swap discs is Press END+(0-9)

Actually, just found this explaining the keyboard mappings:

END+1-0 (not numeric keypad) = insert image from swapper slot 1-10
END+SHIFT+1-0 = insert image from swapper slot 11-20
END+CTRL+1-4 = select drive



Questions:

1) I converted a 3 disk game using your UAE Config tool and noticed in the UAE file your tool created, that floppy0, floppy1 and floppy2 are populated with the disk1, disk2 and disk3 filename paths (which make sense).

However, I then noticed the "diskswapper0" and "diskswapper1" settings are populated with disk2 and disk3 filename paths as well, which was confusing.

Am I correct in thinking the following:

a)  The disks which are loaded in floppy0 thru floppy3 do not have to be "swapped" manually, so games with 4 disks or less will never result in the Amiga prompting me to "Insert Next Disk"?  Basically, I guess the WinUAE emulator manages this for me.

b) The "disk swapper" list entries are only required to be used for Amiga games which have more than 4 disks?


2) If (1a) and (1b) are NOT true then I would assume that for multiple disk games then "floppy0" should be populated with the first disk only and the "disk swapper" settings should contains all other disks.  Then you can simply swap between discs you need.

I guess I am trying to determine why floppy and diskswapper have multiple disks assigned in the settings at the same time....

[headkaze]

Some games don't recognise the extra disk drives, so I place them both in the floppies and the disk swapper in case you have to swap them info DF0:

[Silver]

@headkaze

Is there a database anywhere which indicate which amiga chipset a game is designed for?

I'm sure a huge % of games could be covered by 3 setups:

Amiga KS 1.3 / OCS

Amiga KS 2.0 / ECS

And an AGA config....

But you would need to know the info. You broadly guess by year but....

[headkaze]

With the TOSEC ROMs and dat files they have [AGA], [CD32] etc. in the game's title, so you can use that to move your ROMs into seperate folders and apply the different uae config files for them. I'm not sure where but I found uae configs for Amiga 1200 (AGA), Amiga 500, CD32 etc. So try and Google them, you should be able to find them somewhere.

If I had the time I'd add the ability to check the name for these and apply the appropriate config. If anyone else who know's C# and want's to the source, let me know here and I'll make it available.

[Silver]

Ah I forgot they were tosec (my collection of adf's is not).

That will help splitting all the aga games out. That just leaves the slightly more troublesome OCS vs ECS vs kickstart 1.3/2.04 and memory issues.

I remember BTTR had correct uae configs for every game on their database. I had been thinking of writing a program to read off the config from the website, but that site is gone now....

If you are willing I'd be interested to see the source...

[jcrouse]

I remember BTTR had correct uae configs for every game on their database. I had been thinking of writing a program to read off the config from the website, but that site is gone now....

I noticed the other day that they exist no more. What a shame. It was a very nice site with lots of good information.

John

[headkaze]

If you are willing I'd be interested to see the source...

Yeah no problem link

[Silver]

Thanks for that...