Newbie Questions

12 January 2007, 03:15

Hey Guys,

I got this emulator working today, and having been an Amiga lover for many years now (since the late 80's), I am much impressed with it! But I seem to be having some probs, have gone to numerous sites, and haven't been able to find the answers to my questions:

1) How do I get a virtual little mouse arrow for Amiga games that support the mouse, when I click the windows arrow in the screen it just disappears, I tried different inputs but nothing seems to be working, I would like to use a mouse/keyboard combo

2) how to save games?, now I really looked hard, I don't know how to back out of a program to create a savestate

Other than that I'm surprised at how easy this emu is to operate and how bugfree it is. Thanks.

Zetr0 · 12 January 2007, 08:23

Heys Dochuge,

Welcome to the EAB, I am sure you will like it here..

Now lets see....

1. virtual mouse dissapering / not showing.

I had this problem with an OLD version of WinUAE and a sus gfx card, currently there is version 1.3 available, what version are you running?

what are you computer specs might also help diagnosing this probelm.

2. Saving ones game..

without using save states, what you need to do in the winuae menu <<floppy drive>> is to create a flopy disk (this creates a virtual disk ADF) from this you mount it into say drive DF0, this is now accessed by the application as though its a disk and and hence saves etc.....

P-J · 12 January 2007, 12:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by dochuge

1) How do I get a virtual little mouse arrow for Amiga games that support the mouse, when I click the windows arrow in the screen it just disappears, I tried different inputs but nothing seems to be working, I would like to use a mouse/keyboard combo

Which version of WinUAE are you using? This should just 'happen'. Can you see the Amiga side mouse pointer at all?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dochuge

2) how to save games?, now I really looked hard, I don't know how to back out of a program to create a savestate

I think Zetro got the wrong end of the stick here, either that or I did. To answer your question the way I see it, just press F12 in game to get to the WinUAE menu, go to 'Misc' near the bottom and select 'Save State'. You must put the statefile somewhere manually. WinUAE has a default directory for this, which you can change in the 'paths' tab at the top.

Zetr0 · 12 January 2007, 14:18

Heys P-J,

I just offered another method of saving the game buy using an adf virtual disk as opposed to a save state method in winuae.

by using this adf, you can put this over to an actual amiga and from that copy over to a real floppy disk... thus you can then use your save on the real hardware as well as the emulator

12 January 2007, 18:22

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the replies. I believe I am using the latest version of this emulator. I played around with it last night and SOME games do give me a virtual mouse (Castle 2), some games don't (ie. Cadaver). Not sure why or if I did something differently. I'm not even sure if Cadaver even supports the mouse or not, seems like it should (I remember playing it on Amiga 500 way back when, one of my all-time faves).

Belgarath · 12 January 2007, 18:30

Cadaver is controlled by the joystick, it never was mouse controlled.

Paul · 12 January 2007, 19:07

Thread moved to New to Emulation / Amiga scene

12 January 2007, 03:15	#1
dochuge Posts: n/a	Newbie Questions Hey Guys, I got this emulator working today, and having been an Amiga lover for many years now (since the late 80's), I am much impressed with it! But I seem to be having some probs, have gone to numerous sites, and haven't been able to find the answers to my questions: 1) How do I get a virtual little mouse arrow for Amiga games that support the mouse, when I click the windows arrow in the screen it just disappears, I tried different inputs but nothing seems to be working, I would like to use a mouse/keyboard combo 2) how to save games?, now I really looked hard, I don't know how to back out of a program to create a savestate Other than that I'm surprised at how easy this emu is to operate and how bugfree it is. Thanks.

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12 January 2007, 08:23	#2
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	Heys Dochuge, Welcome to the EAB, I am sure you will like it here.. Now lets see.... 1. virtual mouse dissapering / not showing. I had this problem with an OLD version of WinUAE and a sus gfx card, currently there is version 1.3 available, what version are you running? what are you computer specs might also help diagnosing this probelm. 2. Saving ones game.. without using save states, what you need to do in the winuae menu <<floppy drive>> is to create a flopy disk (this creates a virtual disk ADF) from this you mount it into say drive DF0, this is now accessed by the application as though its a disk and and hence saves etc.....

12 January 2007, 14:18	#4
Zetr0 Ya' like it Retr0? Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: United Kingdom Age: 49 Posts: 9,768	Heys P-J, I just offered another method of saving the game buy using an adf virtual disk as opposed to a save state method in winuae. by using this adf, you can put this over to an actual amiga and from that copy over to a real floppy disk... thus you can then use your save on the real hardware as well as the emulator

12 January 2007, 18:22	#5
dochuge Posts: n/a	Hey Guys, Thanks for the replies. I believe I am using the latest version of this emulator. I played around with it last night and SOME games do give me a virtual mouse (Castle 2), some games don't (ie. Cadaver). Not sure why or if I did something differently. I'm not even sure if Cadaver even supports the mouse or not, seems like it should (I remember playing it on Amiga 500 way back when, one of my all-time faves).

12 January 2007, 18:30	#6
Belgarath HOL Team Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Manchester Posts: 2,513	Cadaver is controlled by the joystick, it never was mouse controlled.

12 January 2007, 19:07	#7
Paul RIP Friends Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK Posts: 2,157	Thread moved to New to Emulation / Amiga scene

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