Using Batch file to run Whdload game

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

It does say in the documents about font size and screen so should be quite an easy fix :P

Then you have the first go at it and report back if it doesn't work
Have a good night

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hi all, Sorry for all the confusion everyone.

Screen is too wide error is caused by the Title line being too wide for the screen size (i used spaces to centralise the text and got carried away

its an easy fix....
Just edit the "Select game to load ((Page 1) line, remove all the spaces after the text so that the line length is less than 60. Do this to page2 and page 3 title line too . If its still too wide then make it shorter still...

I went back in to edit the zip file so it should work properly. I didn't realise there was a problem until i tried it later on a smaller window and got that message...

Here is the page1 file below, The offending line is the TITLE line, remove unwanted spaces after the text. Do the same with the other pages, also this program needs fastram to work in which is really annoying if you dont have fastmem


TITLE Select game to load? (Page 1)

MENU Load Obliterator
MENU Load Superfrog
MENU Load Secret of Monkey Island
MENU Load Alien Breed Tower Assault
MENU Load Battle Squadron
MENU Load Bubble Bobble
MENU Load City Defence
MENU Load Killing Game Show
MENU Load Turrican
MENU Load Game 10
MENU Load Game 11
MENU Load Page 12
MENU Load Game 13
MENU Load Page 2
MENU Exit JMenu

[Retro1234]

Hopefuly not confusing things to much - dont forget theres also an OCS version of KGLoad
KGLoad
and
AGS-OCS

[TCD]

JMenu is nice for a few entries, but for a lot of games it's not really the way to go. Nice effort though kipper and surely useful if you like to have your list of 20-30 games.
Btw : A new ECS/OCS version of KGLoad might take a bit

[Eclipse]

Hi,
"Please insert ENV"
Normally ENV is assigned to RAM but that's not what you want in this case.
Where is ENV assigned from? I couldn't see it on my HD.

[TCD]

You can assign ENV to any folder.
'assign ENV: DH3:env' is what I use

[Eclipse]

I had to create a ENV drawer so that it would work. Of course I could have put ENV on the floppy as well, but the idea is to load everything from the HD that it can.
Ideally, and I don't know if it can be done, is to make it look to see if ENV exists on the HD. If not, create one and delete it after use.
I took out endcli and endif hoping the menu would return after the game exit but alas all I get is >1. Hopefully some tips on this too

[TCD]

Hmm, sounds a bit like you want that to be some kind of universal WHDLoad kick disk. That could be a tad oversized project. Also since ENV: hardly ever uses more than 1 KB that shouldn't be really necessary.

[killergorilla]

You'd be better of doing what I do then.

mkdir RAM:ENV
Assign ENV: RAM:ENV

If you don't want to worry about deleting it.

[Eclipse]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Hmm, sounds a bit like you want that to be some kind of universal WHDLoad kick disk. That could be a tad oversized project. Also since ENV: hardly ever uses more than 1 KB that shouldn't be really necessary.

Yeah, your about to tell me one exists already?

Originally Posted by killergorilla

You'd be better of doing what I do then.



mkdir RAM:ENV

Assign ENV: RAM:ENV



If you don't want to worry about deleting it.

That may be the way forward.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

Yeah, your about to tell me one exists already?

Not one that I know of. If you want to add more functionality to your script, you should have a look at some AmigaDos command reference
Oh and it's MakeDir

[Eclipse]

It's working well now.
I've been looking at Amiga DOS for a while but it's painfully slow for me at the moment in absorbing it.
All I need is a pointer as to how to make it go back to either the start or a particular line.
Label then Skip?

[TCD]

http://winuaehelp.back2roots.org/bac...d/amigados.htm
Basically yes, just use 'SKIP <label> BACK'

[Eclipse]

Thanks for the link
I'll have another go at it. I thought I was on the right track just wasn't sure. BACK is used because the SKIP command is after the LABEL that I wish to use is what I assume.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

BACK is used because the SKIP command is after the LABEL that I wish to use is what I assume.

Yep, exactly.

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

It's working well now.
I've been looking at Amiga DOS for a while but it's painfully slow for me at the moment in absorbing it.
All I need is a pointer as to how to make it go back to either the start or a particular line.
Label then Skip?

Not sure if this is what you want, but if you take a look at item 1, i changed it so it will auto restart the menu once you exit the game by reloading jmenu which will call start...



c:jmenu c:Page1.jm TestVar

if $TestVar EQ 1
cd dh1bliterator;
whdload obliterator.slave PRELOAD;
c:jmenu c:Page1.jm TestVar
endif

if $TestVar EQ 2
cd dh1:superfrog;
whdload superfrog.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 3
cd dh1:SecretOfMonkeyIsland;
whdload SecretOfMonkeyIsland.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 4
cd dh1:alienbreedta;
whdload alienbreedta.slave ;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 5
cd dh1:battlesquadron;
whdload bsquadron.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 6
cd dh1:bubblebobble;
whdload bubblebobble.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 7
cd dh1:citydefence;
whdload citydefence.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 8
cd dh1:killingGameShow;
whdload kgs.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif


if $TestVar EQ 9
cd dh1:Turrican;
whdload Turrican.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 10
cd dh1:Hybris;
whdload hybris.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 11
cd dh1:SecretOfMonkeyIsland;
whdload SecretOfMonkeyIsland.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 12
cd dh1bliterator;
whdload obliterator.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 13
cd dh1:superfrog;
whdload superfrog.slave PRELOAD;
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 14
DH1:start2
endcli
endif

if $TestVar EQ 15
endcli
endif

[Eclipse]

Here is the code so far.
I'm not doing something right with the SKIP. When you exit the game WHDLoad splash screen comes back up and the game re-loads. Hmmm.

Assign Devs: DH0evs
MakeDir RAM:ENV
Assign ENV: RAM:ENV
DF0:C/jmenu DF0:C/Page1.jm TestVar
LAB Point1
if $TestVar EQ 1
CD DH0:Games/B/BadLands
DH0:C/WHDLoad BadLands.Slave PRELOAD
endif
endskip
SKIP Point1 BACK

if $TestVar EQ 2
CD DH0:Games/S/SuperCars2
DH0:C/WHDLoad SuperCars2.Slave PRELOAD
endif
endskip
SKIP Point1 BACK

[TCD]

The 'LAB' needs to be before you call JMenu

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by Eclipse

Here is the code so far.
I'm not doing something right with the SKIP. When you exit the game WHDLoad splash screen comes back up and the game re-loads. Hmmm.

Try my option Eclipse, i'd like to see all peoples examples to make this a more smarter and still lightweight menu

[Eclipse]

Assign Devs: DH0:Devs
MakeDir RAM:ENV
Assign ENV: RAM:ENV
 
LAB Point1
 
DF0:C/jmenu DF0:C/Page1.jm TestVar
if $TestVar EQ 1
CD DH0:Games/B/BadLands
DH0:C/WHDLoad BadLands.Slave PRELOAD
SKIP Point1 BACK
ENDIF
 
if $TestVar EQ 2
CD DH0:Games/S/SuperCars2
DH0:C/WHDLoad SuperCars2.Slave PRELOAD
SKIP Point1 BACK
ENDIF

Thanks immensely for all your help. I owe TCD one now
Just needs some tidyness and to make the Jmenu copyright notice appear just once and I'm done.
EDIT: Sorry Kipper only just noticed your post. I will try that as well anyway, just to see.