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Heya guys,
...not really sure where to put this thread so decided to it can live under the
project.MAGE section.
Now that Toni has released
WinUAE v3.6.0 with the awesome "Boxart" panel, it's probably a good time for me to unleash my collection into the wild (minus any games that I've purchased plus APC&TCP titles).
I've been working on this on / off for 12+ years now. It's mainly a disk-based collection but in the past 2 years I've been adding in:
- Custom .HDFs created by me for games that don't run from floppy.
- Custom AmigaCD --> HDFs; again created by me.
- A few WHDLoad games where major bug fixes over the floppy version has occurred.
You can see the current list of games
here.
Using all my knowledge / reading forums / loads of testing; I feel that all included files are 100% working versions, although obviously I cannot fully guarantee this...
The collection is 6.32GB WinRAR'd and 11.90GB uncompressed. I've also written a nice batch file that does everything for you:
1) Extracts the files from the WinRAR archives to "C:\WinUAE".
2) Removes old and applies the required registry settings.
3) Copies a WinUAE shortcut to your desktop.
ransom1122 has been using this for 2+ years now and commented in another thread:
Quote:
Originally Posted by ransom1122
Sounds promising DamienD, once the images are done I think it may be time to release your badboy out into the wild. 
Your collection is nothing short of superior.  |
Now people might say; why use so many .ADFs when loading is sooooo much slower than from hard drive? Firstly, I love old school cracktros / trainers. Secondly, this is not really an issue in emulation. You can use the following tricks to eradicate boring loading times:
- Set "Floppy Drive Emulation Speed" to "800%" (which works fine for 95% of games).
- Toggle "Warp" mode on / off i.e. <End> + <Pause>.
Ok, a few things to note:
- All games are configured to be run in "Fullscreen" mode.
- 60% of the games run in a resolution of "640x480", 40% in "720x576", but keep the original aspect ratio (see this post for more details).
- "Keyboard Layout B" is set for "Port 2"; obviously if you plug in your joystick / controller and press button one it will swap over. With the second joystick / controller, press the 2nd button to swap over.
- I love / use scanlines, these are set at 50% opacity and very rarely 25%.
- Onscreen LEDs are turned on so you can see activity.
- If a game has 2 or more disks, the "Disk swapper" has been populated in a logical way, see Important Keys on usage.
Also, in some of the
<gamedirs> you will find cheats, hints, level codes, manuals, maps, strategies, tips, walkthroughs which have been painstakingly formatted by me to be printer friendly and in a consistent layout / format. To view these from WinUAE, right-click on the title bar of the "Boxart" panel and select "Open Game Folder":
Finally, if you don't like any the above settings it's very easy to change by either:
1) Notepad++":
Using Notepad++ to modify all configurations to suit your needs in a matter of seconds via the "Search" --> "Find in Files..." function.
For example:
Turn off "Scanlines":
Find "gfx_filter_scanlines=50" and replace with "gfx_filter_scanlines=0".
Find "gfx_filter_scanlines=25" and replace with "gfx_filter_scanlines=0".
Find "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=50" and replace with "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=0".
Find "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=25" and replace with "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=0".
Turn off "Onscreen LEDs":
Find "show_leds=true" and replace with "show_leds=false".
Find "show_leds_rtg=true" and replace with "show_leds_rtg=false".
2) "Host" --> "Autoload":
Example file here: <click>
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Interesting Statistics - Base Install:
Code:
6.32GB WinRAR'd
11.90GB Extracted
11,772 Files
2,315 Directories
26 AmigaCD games
10 Arcadia ROMs
2,196 Disk-based games
94 HDFs (patches / trainers applied when applicable)
55 HDFs [native installs]
26 HDFs [AmigaCD]
13 HDFs [WHDLoad]
330+ Cheats / hints / level codes / manuals / maps / walkthroughs etc.
2,300 Title / screenshots (manually taken by me)
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Interesting Statistics - Base Install & Update Packs #1 - 60:
Code:
56.50GB WinRAR'd
86.20GB Extracted
21,282 Files
3,519 Directories
10 American Laser Games / Nova
58 AmigaCD games
16 Arcadia ROMs
54 CD32 games
10 CDTV games
3,094 Disk-based games
316 HDFs (patches / trainers applied when applicable)
192 HDFs [native installs]
58 HDFs [AmigaCD]
31 HDFs [ShapeShifter / MAC]
35 HDFs [WHDLoad]
565+ Cheats / hints / level codes / manuals / maps / walkthroughs etc.
3,500 Title / screenshots (manually taken by me)
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Anyway, I'm now going to give a copy to
DH and 4 others so that they can play around and give feedback. PM me if interested
Once this has occurred I'll then share with anyone that wants it
