Tutorials for (doing stuff with) FS-UAE on fs-uae.net

[FrodeSolheim]

Hi, I've created a couple of tutorials for FS-UAE on fs-uae.net. The two first tutorials on-line are:

• Installing ClassicWB in FS-UAE
• Installing AmiKit in FS-UAE

The tutorials contain step-by-step instructions with illustrations. I would appreciate some feedback on whether such tutorials are useful to FS-UAE users (and of good enough quality). If so, I can create more tutorials and how-tos - If not, I would just be wasting my time!

[yesplease]

From an aspect of design they are looking very clean and neat. I promise I will look into detail if I have some more time....

[Foul]

Excellent Work !!!

Could save life for many of new users and move closer for others

[jbl007]

The linux version of AmiKit has some broken file-/directory names. :-( http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71985 Unfortunately it isn't that easy to get the files of the windows version on a non-windows platform...


Another solution for AmiKit installation without copying the CD:

- extract AmiKit.zip to Documents/FS-UAE/Hard Drives/AmiKit
- insert your installation CD
- create A4000 config, set 1st HDD to AmiKit dir, 2nd HDD is path to installation CD
- in fs-uae launcher go to "Custom Configuration" and insert 2 lines:
hard_drive_1_read_only = 1
hard_drive_1_label = AmigaOS3.5
replace "AmigaOS3.5" by "AmigaOS3.9" or "AmigaForever" depending on the CD you are own
- install as usual
- delete the lines

Should work on all platforms (not tested).


To get sound out of AHI:

- download http://aminet.net/driver/audio/ahiusr_4.18.lha and save to AmiKit dir
- start emulation
- from start menu launch DirOpus and extract ahiusr_4.18.lha to ram:
- copy ram:AHI/User/Devs/AHI/paula.audio to DH0:Devs/AHI/
- copy ram:AHI/User/Devs/AudioModes/PAULA to DH0:/Devs/AudioModes/
- from start menu launch Preferences/AHI and choose a Paula:Hifi audio mode

[FrodeSolheim]

Good point, there seems to be a few non-ASCII file names in there, and extracting non-ASCII file names from .zip files is generally unreliable = the behavior often depends on the unzip program. The zip could have used "unicode support" to store the file names, but it would still break in for example Windows Explorer, which of course does not support that. Hmm....

And you are quite right about the _label option, I thought it was slightly easier to just make the user copy the files instead of introducing a new element (custom configuration). But your way is faster indeed

EDIT: I checked the zip file, and I posted the findings in the other thread: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71985.

[FrodeSolheim]

One of the easier solutions to the AmiKit.zip problem would be to simply provide the linux version as a .7z file, since that format has had built-in support for international characters (unicode) from the start...

Perhaps the AmiKit people would agree to replace and/or also provide a repacked .7z file? After all, most Linux users will probably extract the zip file wrongly anyway!

EDIT: Another possible "solution" is to bundle a small unzip dialog with FS-UAE Launcher which can unzip files with ISO-8859-1 encoding. It is easy to create, and it could be useful to extract other Amiga-created zip files on the host side without going through the Amiga just to get correct file names.

[jbl007]

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

Perhaps the AmiKit people would agree to replace and/or also provide a repacked .7z file? After all, most Linux users will probably extract the zip file wrongly anyway!

Hello AmiKit people. Are you here?
I think they just don't know about the problem, because the files are not that important to a running AmiKit install. The official linux install guide also instructs to use "unzip".
Perhaps they also can include paula.audio in the Linux version...

EDIT: Another possible "solution" is to bundle a small unzip dialog with FS-UAE Launcher which can unzip files with ISO-8859-1 encoding.

Not a bad idea, but it is rarely needed...