AmigaGuide: Can I launch a WHDLoad game from it?

[Zetr0]

Hello there my fellow forum chummies,

I have been wondering if I could launch a WHDLoad Game with AmigaGuide ?

I know that you can call up files such -

@{"click here for image" link ram:images/townpic.jpg/main}

but could I have something that would launch a WHDLoad file?

something like

@{"Run ProjectX" link games/projectx/projectx}

I have tried it (obviously) it doesn't work. is there a way I can use or call a CLI program from clicking an AmigaGuide button ?

[T_hairy_bootson]

I see where you are going with this and I like it.

No idea if you can, never messed with amigaguide or html myself.

[zipper]

Making an IconX script to run from that button click?

[Zetr0]

@guys

I think I can get "wbrun" to launch a WHDLoad game -

my hope is to create a low-memory amigaguide game launcher

I have found "SYSTEM" command now having a little play with it.

@{"Run ProjectX" system wbrun games:p/projectx/projectx}

but thats not working at the moment

If I can get it working I will create it so that you select from the alphabet and or search for the game you want via AmigaGuide - my theory would be to have an amiga guide launch file in each directory 0_9 / A / B / C etc. so you can select the game you want to play via hyper link... reduces memory overhead - I am hoping that this could work on a 2MB A600 and add it to the right mouse load of classic workbench =)

[Vairn]

you should be able to with a .rexx script, if my memory is correct.

RX, and RXs I think are the commands.
Been a loooong time.

http://aminet.net/package/docs/help/aguidehowwrite

Might be useful.

[Zetr0]

@Varin

thanks for the linkie I have been giving that a very good read

At the moment I can launch a WHDLoad title from AmigaGuide using

@{"ProjectX" system "whdload slave=ram:projectx/projectx.slave"}

but as I have not set the read and write directory it bombs out looking for disk 1.

I had hoped that wbrun would work but it doesn't - it just opens up the window location ... hrmmm

its been about a dozen years since I touched amigados - and it shows lol!

update

Okay, I now have the game launching however I have to use the full whdload cli

@{"Project X run" system "whdload data ram:projectx/ savepath ram:projectx/ slave=ram:projectx/projectx.slave"}

works but that's a lot of text

@{"Project X run" system "iconx ram:projectx/projectx.info"}

does nothing

@{"Project X run" system "wbrun ram:projectx/projectx"}

Just opens the directory on the screen.

hrmmzz...

[Codetapper]

Does it matter if it's a lot of text? You only have to set it up once, and surely you're doing a copy/paste so if there's 1000 games and it's 40 bytes, it's still only 40k.

[killergorilla]

Try:

@{"Project X run" system "kgiconload ram:projectx/projectx.info"}

It *should* work, although I can't test it right now

[Zetr0]

AHA!!!

got it sused - under OS39 you need to use wbrun2 (not wbrun)

sweet have it working now from ram and DIR!

should be able to have a very skeletal workbench and have this running with a very low overhead - sweet!

[killergorilla]

Ah ok cool.

I'll shut up then

[Zetr0]

Originally Posted by Codetapper

Does it matter if it's a lot of text? You only have to set it up once, and surely you're doing a copy/paste so if there's 1000 games and it's 40 bytes, it's still only 40k.

indeed, this is true - however, it does seem silly copying the data that is already there.

Originally Posted by killergorilla

Try:

@{"Project X run" system "kgiconload ram:projectx/projectx.info"}

It *should* work, although I can't test it right now

thanks KG shall look into this and give it a go.

@{"ProjectXSE WBRun2" system "wbrun2 a-games:p/projectxse/projectxse"}

works perfectly - it helps when you use the right CLI command LOL!

@{"ProjectX kgiconload" system "kgiconload ram:projectx/projectx.info"}

has a DOS 205 error where it cannot find the "projectx.slave"

hrrmmmmz

[killergorilla]

Originally Posted by Zetr0

indeed, this is true - however, it does seem silly copying the data that is already there.



thanks KG shall look into this and give it a go.

@{"ProjectXSE WBRun2" system "wbrun2 a-games:p/projectxse/projectxse"}

works perfectly - it helps when you use the right CLI command LOL!

@{"ProjectX kgiconload" system "kgiconload ram:projectx/projectx.info"}

has a DOS 205 error where it cannot find the "projectx.slave"

hrrmmmmz

Ah yeah.

You'll have to cd into the directory first, it'll be looking for the slave in whatever AmigaDos thinks is the current directory.

EDIT: Bit of a moot point now anyway as you have it working

[Zetr0]

I do appreciate the help though..

and now I am stuck again... I want to "boot without start-up" to maximize resources

I then I assign

T: RAM:
ENV: RAM:

I then attempt the following

CLI:> c:amigaguide c:whdlaunch.guide

yet nothing happens... zip nada nothing....

c:amigaguide

and nothing loads at all.

clearly what ever I knew about Amiga dos, has leaked away from my ears like an A500+ motherboard battery...

[Predseda]

Try

assign c: dh0:c

first

it helps sometimes (from unknown reason)

[killergorilla]

Maybe you need to run SetPatch as well?

(It's the only thing missing from above when compared to my "minimal" startup-sequence that I use.)

[Zetr0]

@predseda / KG

sorry guys thats not it either =(

assign t: ram:
assign env: ram:
c:setpatch quiet

I then tried

dh0:utilities/multiview c:whdlaunch.guide

nothing happens, just back to a new prompt

dh0:utilities/multiview

returns a fail at 20 error.

loadwb > nil

workbench loads, but still no luck from either multiview and no amigaguide... damn and double dratt!!

[cosmicfrog]

I suggest you cd to the location of the game before you run/execute script, it should solve the problem of not finding the slave

you should`t have to assign c: to anyware as its usualy found at sys:c

if I get chance I`ll look at amigaguide from cli

[Zetr0]

-update

so after a few more moments of messing about I am still very stuck...

does anyone know what files are needed in the minimum to run an Amiga guide file?

@froggy

alas with the SYSTEM <command> in amigaguide you can only have one command per button.

so when the user clicks "Project X" you can only call one program, and that is either WBRun (in Classic Workbench 68k) or WBRun2 in OS3.9 (hence why I was getting caught up with it earlier)

Now, I can get the WHDLoad programs to run without fuss... under workbench - getting this to run from CLI is proving next to impossible.

I was to get it so that only 200K is used on startup ... I am sure its possible... its just I cannot get amiga-guide to load...

[Bamiga2002]

How's using SnoopDOS to find out what Multiview needs to open itself?

[Konrad]

Either that, or remove the lines in startup-sequence one by one till it stops working with the shell/cli. AddDataTypes f.ex. does make a difference (then you get an error message at least)