Using Batch file to run Whdload game

[Retro1234]

If you add something like this to your mountlist

NEW: Device = ramdrive.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 2
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 1
BootPri = 9

Then Call "Mount New:" from Cli or your batch file
You will have a Small about 2kb virtual Disk Called New: that is bootable - Add the S folder and Startup-Sequence to point to your game on HD and a Reset command.

[musojon74]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

If you add something like this to your mountlist

NEW: Device = ramdrive.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 2
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 1
BootPri = 9

Then Call "Mount New:" from Cli or your batch file
You will have a Small about 2kb virtual Disk Called New: that is bootable - Add the S folder and Startup-Sequence to point to your game on HD and a Reset command.

Nice one Boo Boo. That will do it! I remember fiddling with mountlist all those years ago!

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

If you add something like this to your mountlist

NEW: Device = ramdrive.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 2
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 1
BootPri = 9

Then Call "Mount New:" from Cli or your batch file
You will have a Small about 2kb virtual Disk Called New: that is bootable - Add the S folder and Startup-Sequence to point to your game on HD and a Reset command.

There is already a tool (package) for this and it's called Reboot&Start. I've used it for years . Works fine with low memory and with picky WHDLoad games that don't like WB.

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

There is already a tool (package) for this and it's called Reboot&Start. I've used it for years . Works fine with low memory and with picky WHDLoad games that don't like WB.

Thanks for the link It's nice looking at the Scripts Rebbot&Start uses - One of the files seems broken in the package "GetPath" If you have a working version please could you upload.

[Bamiga2002]

Yes i know about the "getpath" (not executable). I've emailed the author about it. I'll zone the working getpath today

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Yes i know about the "getpath" (not executable). I've emailed the author about it. I'll zone the working getpath today

Good Morning Sir -
Thanks for the Reply I hope the author respondes - Thankyou that would be great, I look forward to playing with this command

[Bamiga2002]

Zoned!

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Zoned!

Thanks for uploading - thats great just tested, handy little Tool

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

Thanks for uploading - thats great just tested, handy little Tool

How do you set this up to run ? i'm not too up on AmigaDos?

Thanks

[Bamiga2002]

Hello kipper2k!
Just read the guide inside the reboot&start -package, copy needed files to their places (+getpath from the Zone). It's basicly you copy the following scripts

reboot-start
startup-sequence

and edit startup-sequence to add the game executable where it says so. Simple!

I go a bit further, extend the script, use TUDE and add other tools as i need them. Just study the scripts

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Hello kipper2k!
Just read the guide inside the reboot&start -package, copy needed files to their places (+getpath from the Zone). It's basicly you copy the following scripts

reboot-start
startup-sequence

and edit startup-sequence to add the game executable where it says so. Simple!

I go a bit further, extend the script, use TUDE and add other tools as i need them. Just study the scripts

@Bamiga2002

Thanks for the help, are you saying you can use Tude for NTSC/Pal to change boot up options too ?

[Bamiga2002]

Yes, but you can do that altering the reboot-start script also. TUDE adds a "few" options to tune compatibility. Read TUDE docs.

[kipper2k]

K,
Here is a menu that i have been working on. It works fine on the 1200 and 500. The program is called Jmenu by James Collins




The menu loads scripts and you can set it up so you can have multiple pages. Here is a zip of the 3 page example i set up to load WHDload games. The menu is called by simply double clicking the "Start" icon (just put it on the desktop so its easy to get at). Changes to the game paths is done by editing the start, start2, and start3 files in root.

The actual menu items are changed by altering the page1, page2 and page3 files located in the c folder. This is good for those of you who have favourite games that you want quick access to, or mabbe load games that are memory critical

Thanks to everyone for their help

heres the link for the files...



http://www.kipper2k.com/amiga/jmenusetup.zip

[Retro1234]

That looks like a realy nice setup kipper2k glad you got sorted

[Eclipse]

Hi,
So I decided to combine JMenu with the startup-sequence provided by TCD.
JMenu works from within ClassicWB but says something like "Line 1 must be TITLE, LINE or EXEC." when used soley as an ADF to boot.
I've provided the adf below, I'm running ClassicWB as well.

[TCD]

This can't work, because you give JMenu an AmigaDos batch file as a parameter in the startup-sequence. Okay hope I confused you enough to think about it The soultion is quite simple : Either put the whole shebang from 'Start' in your startup-sequence (recommended ) or exchange JMenu with Execute in the startup-sequence that you have (not really the way to go ).

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

This can't work, because you give JMenu an AmigaDos batch file as a parameter in the startup-sequence. Okay hope I confused you enough to think about it The soultion is quite simple : Either put the whole shebang from 'Start' in your startup-sequence (recommended ) or exchange JMenu with Execute in the startup-sequence that you have (not really the way to go ).

Hi,
My head hurts now
What do you mean by the whole "Start"?
EDIT: You mean th start icon you click I assume

[Eclipse]

I put all of Start in the Startup-sequence.
I got "Menu is too wide for screen" so I'm assuming it's now a setup issue.

[TCD]

'Start' is an AmigaDos script (basically the same as the startup-sequence). If you type in 'more start' in CLI you see the contents. Just copy it over the startup-sequence (copy df0:start df0:s/startup-sequence) and that's it
However I get a 'Menu too wide' error when I do that, but it's a tad too late to today to see what causes it. Will have a look tomorrow though

Edit : Bingo

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

'Start' is an AmigaDos script (basically the same as the startup-sequence). If you type in 'more start' in CLI you see the contents. Just copy it over the startup-sequence (copy df0:start df0:s/startup-sequence) and that's it
However I get a 'Screen too wide' error when I do that, but it's a tad too late to today to see what causes it. Will have a look tomorrow though

Edit : Bingo

Yeah I'm off to bed now as well.
I understand now how it's acting as simply a batch file. It does say in the documents about font size and screen so should be quite an easy fix :P