DamienD's WinUAE Collection

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ma693541

Thank you DD for your collection and all it's small and big updates. How many more gems have you up in your sleeve? Or should I say pull out of hat?

Honestly, I don't know.

Really running out of decent games worth adding though... I'm still amazed that sometimes I manage to put together new Update Packs these days.

Originally Posted by Revenile

Alright then, sent one asking. I originally didn't because when I really got into what the collection was you were having that large drama with the uploads to other places, and I didn't feel right asking as a newer member when trust was an issue. Glad to see you've opened things back up to people to ask for it.

PM sent

[DamienD]

One category that my collection lacks is "Sports Management" games; there are currently zero...

This is due to me hating these type of games; I'd rather watch grass grow than play these

Anyway, if you guys could give me a list of essential "Sports Management" games then I guess I can add... not that I'll ever play them myself

[Gzegzolka]

Maybe not sport management, but I do not remember to see Doman and Franko in Your collection. Also few days ago I try to play Uridium on A1200 config. What exactly mayhem mode is?

[wodan]

Speedball 2 had some team management, great game.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by Gzegzolka

Maybe not sport management, but I do not remember to see Doman and Franko in Your collection.

Both games are rubbish IMHO.

Same as Street Hassle; which I had back in the day on my C64.

Originally Posted by Gzegzolka

Also few days ago I try to play Uridium on A1200 config. What exactly mayhem mode is?

No idea.

I did notice that Uridium 2 will work on AGA. Are there any enhancements i.e. so is it worth adding it's own A1200 configuration?

Originally Posted by wodan

Speedball 2 had some team management, great game.

Speedball 2 is in collection; though this is hardly what I'm referring to when I say Sports Management...

[ransom1122]

OMG... DD is doing Sports Management games... Ruuuuuunnnnnn.

A reminder i added a few games in requests thread, lets hope more people use that thread to bump the game count up with good games

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80841&page=23

Added a bunch of management games for you to start with

[Boulder]

The Championship Manager games are classic and the thing is still going very strong under the Football Manager franchise.

I've never played Tracksuit Manager myself, but many people like it as well.

[Revenile]

Alright so I got it installed and starting looking into it. First impressions are thus, and I'll update this post with feedback as time goes on as I think of it.

Before Starting Any Software: Bountiful Bouncing Checkered Boing Ball Batman! Just shy of 45Gigs of HD space! That first post's facts are a bit outdated it seems.

Actually trying a game out: The scanlines look surprisingly good, while I will probably turn them off, or at least tone them down, they are even and clean. Game looks and runs great with a bit of testing, no noticeable visual issues. Only tried one game, but will have to go through all of them to see which ones I'll actually play, might discover a few I never thought to look at.

Actually the only complaint I have isn't the fault of the collection or really the settings (as for gameplay they are sublime), the WinUAE F12 menu is too large in full screen to access even the quit button. Minor gripe I know but that's the feedback so far. Still utterly impressive so far and can't wait to really dig into this and set this magnificent base up to my own personal tastes. Seriously no amount of "well done" can be enough with this so far.

[ransom1122]

Originally Posted by Revenile

Alright so I got it installed and starting looking into it. First impressions are thus, and I'll update this post with feedback as time goes on as I think of it.

Before Starting Any Software: Bountiful Bouncing Checkered Boing Ball Batman! Just shy of 45Gigs of HD space! That first post's facts are a bit outdated it seems.

Actually trying a game out: The scanlines look surprisingly good, while I will probably turn them off, or at least tone them down, they are even and clean. Game looks and runs great with a bit of testing, no noticeable visual issues. Only tried one game, but will have to go through all of them to see which ones I'll actually play, might discover a few I never thought to look at.

Actually the only complaint I have isn't the fault of the collection or really the settings (as for gameplay they are sublime), the WinUAE F12 menu is too large in full screen to access even the quit button. Minor gripe I know but that's the feedback so far. Still utterly impressive so far and can't wait to really dig into this and set this magnificent base up to my own personal tastes. Seriously no amount of "well done" can be enough with this so far.

CTRL-F11 Quits without using F12..


Scanlines are personal choice, you can remove them if you don't want them

[Revenile]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

CTRL-F11 Quits without using F12..


Scanlines are personal choice, you can remove them if you don't want them

Hehe, old habits die hard, will need to train myself for the shortcut.

[DamienD]

Heya Revenile,

Thank you for taking the time to post your initial feedback

Originally Posted by Revenile

Before Starting Any Software: Bountiful Bouncing Checkered Boing Ball Batman! Just shy of 45Gigs of HD space! That first post's facts are a bit outdated it seems.

Yes, in the 1st post it initially says "The collection is 6.32GB WinRAR'd and 11.90GB uncompressed".

...but just below that there are updated statistics:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Interesting Statistics - Base Install & Update Packs #1 - 43:

26.10GB    WinRAR'd 
45.90GB    Extracted 
 15,954    Files 
  3,179    Directories 
     57    AmigaCD games 
     16    Arcadia ROMs 
     34    CD32 games 
      9    CDTV games 
  2,865    Disk-based games 
    236    HDFs (patches / trainers applied when applicable) 
        146   HDFs [native installs] 
         57   HDFs [AmigaCD] 
          7   HDFs [ShapeShifter / MAC] 
         26   HDFs [WHDLoad] 
   480+    Cheats / hints / level codes / manuals / maps / walkthroughs etc. 
  3,160    Title / screenshots (manually taken by me)

Originally Posted by Revenile

Actually trying a game out: The scanlines look surprisingly good, while I will probably turn them off, or at least tone them down, they are even and clean.

Any options I've set can be changed in one of two ways.

The first via NotePad++:

Originally Posted by DamienD

Finally, if you don't like any the above settings it's very easy to change all configurations to suit your needs in a matter of seconds using Notepad++ and "Search" --> "Find in Files". For example:

Turn off "Scanlines":
Change "gfx_filter_scanlines=50" to "gfx_filter_scanlines=0".
Change "gfx_filter_scanlines=25" to "gfx_filter_scanlines=0".
Change "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=50" to "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=0".
Change "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=25" to "gfx_filter_scanlines_rtg=0".

Turn off "Onscreen LEDs":
Change "show_leds=true" to "show_leds=false".
Change "show_leds_rtg=true" to "show_leds_rtg=false".

The second via "Host" --> "Autoload":

• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3107
• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3108

I really need to put this second option in the 1st post... [now done]

Originally Posted by Revenile

Actually the only complaint I have isn't the fault of the collection or really the settings (as for gameplay they are sublime), the WinUAE F12 menu is too large in full screen to access even the quit button. Minor gripe I know but that's the feedback so far.

To be honest, you never really need to go into the GUI.

Just learn these Important Keys and your life will be easier

...but saying that, if you do press <F12> and go into the GUI, you can scroll the GUI by moving the mouse up, down, left, right at the screen edges.

[ransom1122]

It would be cool if adjustable scanlines & leds were able to be enabled/disabled via winaue directly.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

It would be cool if adjustable scanlines & leds were able to be enabled/disabled via winaue directly.

I know Toni won't do this... I asked for a shortcut key to enable / disable LEDs many moons ago, and the answer was no.

Just do this and you don't need to adjust any configuration files:

Originally Posted by DamienD

The second via "Host" --> "Autoload":

• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3107
• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3108

I really need to put this second option in the 1st post...

[ransom1122]

Boxarts were asked many moons ago as well and and now they're here

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

Boxarts were asked many moons ago as well and and now they're here

I'm sorry, but that is incorrect... Toni never said no to the "BoxArt" panel.

For many years I wanted to ask for this feature, but never did as I assumed it would be an instant no...

One day, you put forward the suggestion. Hence this thread: Adding Boxart to WINUAE Configs

Toni worked on and perfected this

I rewarded him handsomely by donating £400 i.e. £200 whilst he was implementing, and another £200 upon final completion.

I did this as it was a feature that I always wanted... with it's implementation WinUAE is much better IMHO. It really improved the look / feel of my collection, and is ultimately what led me to releasing into public

[ransom1122]

I think the two features need to be reconsidered. Its painfull to have to edit uaes to do what emulation can do easily with an option in winuae gui.

[Boulder]

Originally Posted by Boulder

The Championship Manager games are classic and the thing is still going very strong under the Football Manager franchise.

I've never played Tracksuit Manager myself, but many people like it as well.

In addition to these, I just remembered World Championship Boxing Manager, which was a funny little manager game.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

I think the two features need to be reconsidered. Its painfull to have to edit uaes to do what emulation can do easily with an option in winuae gui.

...but there are options in the GUI:

Scanlines:
... Go to "Filter", change the "Extra Settings" drop down "Point/Bilinear" to "Scanline opacity" and then set "0".
... Repeat the above with "RTG" selected instead of "Native".

Miscellaneous:
... Untick "Native on-screen display" and "RTG on-screen display".

You're talking about keyboard shortcuts to enable / disable both of the above.

Anyway, doing this is very simple and only requires creating / setting one configuration file under "C:\WinUAE\Configurations\Host".

Originally Posted by DamienD

2) "Host" --> "Autoload":

• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3107
• http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...postcount=3108

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

It would be cool if adjustable scanlines & leds were able to be enabled/disabled via winaue directly.

Input panel -> map something -> custom event -> "show_leds=[1-show_leds]" will toggle leds on and off. Any config entry (that also supports uae-configuration) can be modified using custom events.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

I think the two features need to be reconsidered. Its painfull to have to edit uaes to do what emulation can do easily with an option in winuae gui.

Originally Posted by DamienD

Anyway, doing this is very simple and only requires creating / setting one configuration file under "C:\WinUAE\Configurations\Host".

Here you go ransom1122, I'm make it very easy for you

Just download this file and extract into "C:\WinUAE\Configurations\Host".

Afterwards:

• Start WinUAE and select "Host".
• Click on "No Scanlines & No LEDs" and then click "Set".
• Tick "Autoload" and then "OK"

Now you can use my original configuration files and never need to edit any using NotePad++