FS-UAE Launcher

[Cabirus]

Hello Frode,

thanks for your great work! FS-UAE is a really impressive piece of software.

My question: Like the user above, I want to launch my games using an external program (in my case LaunchBox, another great piece of software). It would be great if FS-UAE Launcher had an option to export all configurations for my WHDLoad-games into one folder (using the game names as filename). That way, I could just point LaunchBox to that folder and let FS-UAE do the rest!

I guess this feature would also be cool for users of other frontends, like HyperSpin or GameEx...

[FrodeSolheim]

Hi Cabirus, it sounds like you want something like this (just for clarification):

For example, you would then end up with:
...
/some/path/Games/Amiga/L/Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 (WHDLoad, v1.10, 0497).some-extension
...

And then you would associate .some-extension with FS-UAE Launcher (which would accept this file and auto-start the game) and add .some-extension to your frontend of desire?

[Cabirus]

Hi Frode,

yes, that is exactly what I mean. Like Girgl saved his "Kick Off 2.fs-uae" config and runs it using Kodi. But instead of saving each and every config file manually it would be great if FS-UAE Launcher offered an option to do so for all my installed games at once.

Of course I have no idea how hard such an option is to implement...

[FrodeSolheim]

@Cabirus sounds like it should be rather easy, but I'll do it right now. So I created an "enhancement issue" at https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-u...cher/issues/25.

[Cabirus]

@Frode, I just noticed something on your GitHub page. Issue22 should already be doing exactly what I need. It is actually a better solution I guess. So if this feature would be implemented, the export-option I was talking about probably isn't needed...

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by Cabirus

@Frode, I just noticed something on your GitHub page. Issue22 should already be doing exactly what I need. It is actually a better solution I guess. So if this feature would be implemented, the export-option I was talking about probably isn't needed...

It is almost the same, but not quite. In this case (Issue 22), FS-UAE Launches does not know anything about the game, so it will just go with some default values (*).

If you start FS-UAE Launcher with information about a specific variant, it will be able to use game-specific settings.

(*) Almost true, some magic could be done to try to find the corresponding database variant and load additional settings from there, but I don't plan to do this.. now..

In any case, https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-u...cher/issues/22 is actually implemented now

[Cabirus]

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

In any case, https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-u...cher/issues/22 is actually implemented now

Great news, that should work for many games!

Maybe at some point in the future you can work your "magic" and make FS-UAE Launcher detect the correct configuration for each game. That would make you a star with the Kodi/Hyperspin/Launchbox-crowd for sure! Right now, Amiga games are by far the hardest to integrate in such frontends because of all the different configurations.

[Cabirus]

Just reporting back: Launching WHDLoad-zips via the command line works very well. Maybe you should add a note though that this only works with the "real" fs-uae-launcher.exe, not the small .exe in the root folder.

One suggestion: Wouldn't it be better to start an A1200 instead of an A600? That way all those AGA-games could be launched from the command line as well...

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by Cabirus

Maybe you should add a note though that this only works with the "real" fs-uae-launcher.exe, not the small .exe in the root folder.

Even better is to actually forward command line arguments to the real exe
https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-u...cher/issues/27

Originally Posted by Cabirus

J One suggestion: Wouldn't it be better to start an A1200 instead of an A600? That way all those AGA-games could be launched from the command line as well...

Will be changed in the next version

Hi, the fs-emulator works gret, but I have issues with the launcher
I thinks that my python have problem, any idea to try to solve this?

uca@snoopx ~ $ fs-uae-launcher 
executable_dir
sys.executable = /usr/bin/python3
using sys.argv[0] instead of python interpreter path
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin
executable_dir = /usr/local/bin
checking /usr/local/bin/Portable.ini
checking /usr/local/Portable.ini
checking /usr/Portable.ini
checking /Portable.ini
no Portable.ini found in search path
base_dir not decided yet, checking FS_UAE_BASE_DIR
using default base_dir
- checking /home/luca/.config/fs-uae-launcher/base-dir
- checking /home/luca/.config/fs-uae/base-dir
XDG user dir DOCUMENTS => '/home/luca/Documenti'
base dir is /home/luca/Documenti/FS-UAE
fs-uae-launcher
2.6.0beta2
enabling except hook
enable tread exception handler
uname_result(system='Linux', node='snoopx', release='4.0.5-gentoo', version='#1 SMP Sun Jun 28 13:43:39 BST 2015', machine='x86_64', processor='Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz')
['/usr/local/bin/fs-uae-launcher']
FS-UAE Launcher 2.6.0beta2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/Archive.py", line 9, in <module>
    from lhafile import LhaFile
ImportError: No module named 'lhafile'
LhaFile module import problem

Unhandled exception detected in thread MainThread:
  ImportError:FileDatabase.py:<module>:4

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/fs-uae-launcher", line 10, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/main.py", line 127, in main
    from fs_uae_launcher.ConfigChecker import ConfigChecker
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/ConfigChecker.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .Config import Config
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/Config.py", line 6, in <module>
    from fsgs.context import fsgs
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/context.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .FSGameSystemContext import FSGameSystemContext
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/FSGameSystemContext.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .FileDatabase import FileDatabase
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/FileDatabase.py", line 4, in <module>
    import sqlite3
ImportError: No module named 'sqlite3'


Unhandled exception detected in thread MainThread:
  ImportError:FileDatabase.py:<module>:4

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/fs-uae-launcher", line 10, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/main.py", line 127, in main
    from fs_uae_launcher.ConfigChecker import ConfigChecker
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/ConfigChecker.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .Config import Config
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fs_uae_launcher/Config.py", line 6, in <module>
    from fsgs.context import fsgs
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/context.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .FSGameSystemContext import FSGameSystemContext
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/FSGameSystemContext.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .FileDatabase import FileDatabase
  File "/usr/local/share/fs-uae-launcher/fsgs/FileDatabase.py", line 4, in <module>
    import sqlite3
ImportError: No module named 'sqlite3'

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by dylanmc

ImportError: No module named 'sqlite3'[/CODE]

The sqlite3 module is a standard part of Python. So if it is missing, you either have a broken installation, or a cut-down version of Python. I cannot give any advice other than "get a proper/full Python installation"...

EDIT: Some Linux distributions may have a "python3-minimal" package. If so, you need to ensure you have installed the full "python3" package instead.

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

The sqlite3 module is a standard part of Python. So if it is missing, you either have a broken installation, or a cut-down version of Python. I cannot give any advice other than "get a proper/full Python installation"...

EDIT: Some Linux distributions may have a "python3-minimal" package. If so, you need to ensure you have installed the full "python3" package instead.

Thanks for the reply.
It's the same thing that I was thinking
Maybee my gentoo python is broken, and I really don't know how to fix it
Anyway, if is not a fs uae problem, i've solved half of my problem :P
Unfortunatly, fs-uae is not in the portage tree, and overlay are old :/

[FrodeSolheim]

Well, if you have 32-bit OpenGL and glibc installed, you can alternatively download the precompiled "SteamOS" version instead: http://fs-uae.net/download#steamos.

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

Well, if you have 32-bit OpenGL and glibc installed, you can alternatively download the precompiled "SteamOS" version instead: http://fs-uae.net/download#steamos.

Thanks!!!!
I've solved it

[FrodeSolheim]

I think it is time to unstick and close this thread. Specific issues / discussions are probably better handled in separate threads!