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18 March 2006, 22:09
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WinUAE and *.exe files
Hi everybody.
Sorry if it has already been posted but I did not find any "real" answer to that question... It is quite simple : How can I launch an abc.exe file using WinUAE in Workbench Mode (3.1) ?  I put the abc.exe file in Disk Drive DF0 and when I launch WinUAE, this message pops up: This is a self extracting disk data file, usage : This file <TargetDrive> And I really do not know what to do ! I used abc.exe <DF0> but it do not work...  Thank you for reading ! 
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18 March 2006, 22:27
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try DF0: instead of <DF0>
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18 March 2006, 22:39
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Thank you for showing me my mistake !
 But it still pops up : Unknown command abc.exe ! 
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19 March 2006, 00:01
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How are you booting to the Workbench screen - via floppy (adf) or virtual hard disk set up?
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19 March 2006, 00:27
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Sadly, I really do not know. Here are my settings :
http://membres.lycos.fr/terrydelawgan/amiga.gif I am sorry to be pretty useless... 
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19 March 2006, 00:50
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the exe is the name of the disk on the pc side, not the amiga side. so there won't likely be a abc.exe on the disk, just boot it like you would a normal adf.
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19 March 2006, 01:14
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The position you have put the .EXE, is for DISK IMAGES ONLY (ADF, IPF). I mean what exactly is 123.exe, it might need running on a PC (Self etracting ZIP) to extract the image, then you put the contents (now extracted) into Winuae. |
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19 March 2006, 01:20
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Er you can load amiga exes in winuae. there are even tosec dats for them.
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19 March 2006, 01:28
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Maybe if Winuae had different lines for the formats supported like other programs.... Amiga disk format - *.ADF Caps Images - *.IPF Zip files - *.ZIP GZIP Archives - *.GZ Zipped ADF - *.ADZ etc etc All files Instead of all on the one line Amiga disk files (*.adf;*.adz;*.gz;*.dms;*.fdi) ALL files |
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19 March 2006, 01:29
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Belgarath : I used the normal boot (ie : Without using the Workbench mode) but... Same message.
WhiteB : I cannot use abc.exe on my PC either ! Error message (Under a DOS window) : Program too big to fit in memory ! Otherwise, how would you "extract" files you were talking about ? 
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19 March 2006, 01:34
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put the .exe in the zone (read the faq to find out how to get access) and someone will probably have a look to see how to get it working.
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19 March 2006, 01:36
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or email it to me whiteb\at\gmail dot com (Spam filtered) |
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19 March 2006, 01:47
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Would that mean anybody was never able to make a *.exe file work on WinUAE ?  Am I cursed ? Well, enough for today.  I am going to sleep (It is 2:00 AM in France) ! Bye for now and thanks to both of you. |
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19 March 2006, 02:08
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It all depends on the EXE, if the EXE is a PC executable file, then it WILL NOT WORK.
If it is just an EXE as in Self Extracting Zip files, then I believe that Winuae supports these, and will read them, to boot. What is the EXE, where did you get it from.. we need more INFO. |
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19 March 2006, 02:22
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If it is an amiga EXE (like a demo that takes over the system) it should work!
Whiteb.. check out the tosec .exe sets
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19 March 2006, 03:17
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Okay then, lets recap what we learned so far....
The EXE is a demo that takes over the system, but is not necessarily a DISK image.. Then the Original poster has to load Workbench first (ADF or HDF or whatever) before he tried to run the demo. ? |
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19 March 2006, 03:21
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WinUae can boot amiga exe files. you just pop them in df0:
You may need to use an earlier kickstart to get this running. Zone it so we can take a look. |
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19 March 2006, 08:01
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Amiga executable is mounted as a virtual adf that contains the executable (name is always "runme.exe") and s/startup-sequence.
I guess you need to put empty adf in df1:, abc.exe in df0:, boot and type "runme.exe df1:" to unpack the data to df1:. |
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19 March 2006, 14:05
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It works !
 Thank you very much !  (So, exe files had to be extracted in blank asf before being launch...  )
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19 March 2006, 15:34
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Your executable was a special case. It seemed to be some kind of self-extracting disk image format.
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