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Originally Posted by walkero
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this would mean that the lha would be extracted into ram and run from there. On what machine would you run something like that?
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On emulated machines running WinUAE or Amiberry for example, where plenty of RAM is available. However I more thought of self extracting a game to hdd when first playing it, similar to Amiberry WHDLoad support (but not on /tmp file system) or ideally during the iGames scan process at setup. So lha files show up in iGames list. When I scan the repo, or start the lha game manually, it gets extracted into the same file location. Not sure if it makes sense for all, but could come handy for certain scenarios.
Just an idea. So far I did the extraction of e.g. WHDLoad Games pack manually on Windows using 7zip (which sometimes break depending on file names etc.) or via a AmigaDos script.