Updated WHDLoad Demos/Games pack. - Page 20

Turran · 10 March 2018, 15:32

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Originally Posted by Stl75

Hello, Turran...

Also function - to your downloader...

Sorry, I am having a hard time understanding you. You mean that updates to the FTP are very slow but fast on MEGA?

Does not Retroplay update the FTP at basically the same time as his other sources?

Retroplay · 10 March 2018, 16:35

Yes I do.

Stl75 · 10 March 2018, 16:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turran

Sorry, I am having a hard time understanding you. You mean that updates to the FTP are very slow but fast on MEGA?

Does not Retroplay update the FTP at basically the same time as his other sources?

In MEGA cloud - updates every for several programm...
On your server - last update 28.02.2017...

Because may be - added this function...???
See you up from posts...

Quote:

You can add -
compare two folders -
old and new from hard disk PC...
And in results - was maded folder
with new archives...

Turran · 10 March 2018, 17:13

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Originally Posted by Retroplay

Yes I do.

Thanks, thats what I thought

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stl75

On your server - last update 28.02.2017...

Where are you looking? Retroplay keeps the games here on the FTP: Commodore_Amiga\Retroplay

Latest update seems to be Ambermoon_v1.1_De.lha from 2018-03-01
Its picked up and downloaded fine using my little program.

Stl75 · 10 March 2018, 17:57

Sorry...

I watch - to last changed...

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Stl75 · 10 March 2018, 18:05

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To create your own account, you must be a member of the EAB Forums here, have at least 15 posts to your name and your last post can be no older than 5 days. If you only just arrived to EAB with nice things to upload but do not yet have the posts to create an FTP account, let me know and I'll add you manually.

You can create your own account from here:
https://www.grandis.nu:444/eabadduser/

Not working...
I not can - create account...
May add manually???

DamienD · 10 March 2018, 18:31

Not sure where you quote the above from...

Unfortunately these days it's 50 posts; you're half way there

Turran · 10 March 2018, 20:35

Actually, its a 100 =) Time to lower it a bit?

Turran · 10 March 2018, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Stl75

Sorry...

I watch - to last changed...

Attachment 57213

Not quit correct when looking that far up. Only the parent folder of something that has changed gets a new date. Go into Commodore_Amiga\Retroplay\Commodore_Amiga_-_WHDLoad_-_Games for example for a better view.

DamienD · 11 March 2018, 01:16

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Originally Posted by Turran

Actually, its a 100 =) Time to lower it a bit?

Ooops, yeah why not lower to 50 then

Turran · 11 March 2018, 08:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Ooops, yeah why not lower to 50 then

Done =)

Viceroy · 12 March 2018, 17:36

I use Clrmame for all rom sets for every system, its by far the the easiest to use, I tried using Romvault once, could not get my head round it?
I get Retroplay's new dats at the end of every month and correct my WHDload collection monthly

Amiga1992 · 12 March 2018, 20:29

I'm still copying shit over to my CD32's 8GB CF, it takes such a long time to unpack it all to the Amiga volumes the first time! I decided since Turran isn't maintaining a pack anymore to just start from scratch with Retroplay's latest.

I wish there was a tool that would just create an HDF with everything expanded onto it according to one's specifications. At least if you have an HDF you can set a copy operation to your CF and sort of fire and forget. I have to at least unpack per folder, using the command line, and then doing some cleanup.

OK back to day 3 of copying stuff over

Lemaru · 12 March 2018, 22:11

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Originally Posted by Akira

I wish there was a tool that would just create an HDF with everything expanded onto it according to one's specifications. At least if you have an HDF you can set a copy operation to your CF and sort of fire and forget. I have to at least unpack per folder, using the command line, and then doing some cleanup.

This is what would be good. I used to use Turran's packs with the Wunpack utility to apply updates and also filter out NTSC, lesser disk versions and non English versions (other than when an English version doesn't exist). Worked great.

Having the dats for RetroPlays set is all good but doesn't allow you to filter out AGA, NTSC, language, etc etc.

The download tool helps quite a bit (thanks Turran) but still not as easy to manage as previously

Amiga1992 · 12 March 2018, 23:11

Yeah the download tool helps a lot even if a few foreign language games get through.
I still have to filter it further: I do a set that contain only one version of each game. If there's OCS/AGA/CD32 I only pick the best/most convenient of the three, I am not interested in duplicates.

Turran · 13 March 2018, 13:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

I'm still copying shit over to my CD32's 8GB CF, it takes such a long time to unpack it all to the Amiga volumes the first time! I decided since Turran isn't maintaining a pack anymore to just start from scratch with Retroplay's latest.

I wish there was a tool that would just create an HDF with everything expanded onto it according to one's specifications. At least if you have an HDF you can set a copy operation to your CF and sort of fire and forget. I have to at least unpack per folder, using the command line, and then doing some cleanup.

OK back to day 3 of copying stuff over

It took me around 1 hour to unpack the full pack to a .HDF when I started from scratch. I just created a 8GB WHD with PFS AIO 3.0, created a speedy amiga in WinUAE, mounted the dir where I've downloaded the games/demos and the .WHD file.

In Diropus, I created the GAMES folder and 0-9 - Z folders on the WHD. Then I just selected all the games in A from where I downloaded them, went into A on the WHD and hit the Arc Ext button. All of A unpacked in 30 seconds.

Repeat for B etc.

Once I was done, I put the CF card from my CD32 & A1200 (seperatly) into the PC. Mounted it and the .WHD file to my speedy emulated WinUAE Amiga and copied. Also very quick =)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

Yeah the download tool helps a lot even if a few foreign language games get through.

Give me an example and I can add it to the list of non-english games when downloading. I've just missed it.

Amiga1992 · 13 March 2018, 15:40

Ahhh I erased the games now and don't remember, but there were a few Swedish games like Guldkorn Expressen, and polish games. Only very few!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turran

It took me around 1 hour to unpack the full pack to a .HDF when I started from scratch. I just created a 8GB WHD with PFS AIO 3.0, created a speedy amiga in WinUAE, mounted the dir where I've downloaded the games/demos and the .WHD file.

Which LHA version are you using? Mine feels super slow. I have 2.15 Free, using the 68040+ one on an unhinged superfast cpu setup, and still mega slow.

I am also unpacking directly to the CF, on an FFS partition, that will not help (neither would if I was copying).

jbl007 · 13 March 2018, 22:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turran

Give me an example and I can add it to the list of non-english games when downloading. I've just missed it.

Do you use a black list or regular expression to find them?
Regex

_(Cz|De|Dk|Es|Fi|Fr|Gr|It|Pl|Se)(\.|_)

should catch 'em all.

jbl007 · 13 March 2018, 22:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akira

I am also unpacking directly to the CF, on an FFS partition, that will not help (neither would if I was copying).

Writing a large amount of small files to flash media can be painful.

Perhaps it's better to use a hard file (including RDB of course) with the exact size of the CF and copy/extract your files to it. Once this is done raw-write the image to CF. Sequential write is usually much faster.

Amiga1992 · 14 March 2018, 00:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by jbl007

Writing a large amount of small files to flash media can be painful.

Perhaps it's better to use a hard file (including RDB of course) with the exact size of the CF and copy/extract your files to it. Once this is done raw-write the image to CF. Sequential write is usually much faster.

You know, yeah, I am an idiot, and did not think of this option.
Can Win32Imager write an HDF back to a CF?

12 March 2018, 17:36	#392
Viceroy Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sunderland Posts: 946	I use Clrmame for all rom sets for every system, its by far the the easiest to use, I tried using Romvault once, could not get my head round it? I get Retroplay's new dats at the end of every month and correct my WHDload collection monthly Last edited by Viceroy; 12 March 2018 at 18:22.

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Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	I'm still copying shit over to my CD32's 8GB CF, it takes such a long time to unpack it all to the Amiga volumes the first time! I decided since Turran isn't maintaining a pack anymore to just start from scratch with Retroplay's latest. I wish there was a tool that would just create an HDF with everything expanded onto it according to one's specifications. At least if you have an HDF you can set a copy operation to your CF and sort of fire and forget. I have to at least unpack per folder, using the command line, and then doing some cleanup. OK back to day 3 of copying stuff over

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Amiga1992 Registered User Join Date: May 2001 Location: ? Posts: 19,645	Yeah the download tool helps a lot even if a few foreign language games get through. I still have to filter it further: I do a set that contain only one version of each game. If there's OCS/AGA/CD32 I only pick the best/most convenient of the three, I am not interested in duplicates.

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