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Thankyou! I am using Headcaze's winuaeloader to play games, but have a separate folder of demos and games in .adf format, which I want to run through winuae, and not via the loader. So really I'd like to know where I can download the programmes you mentioned from? I'd also like some advice on how to start up the programme with winuae, and close it down with winuae! Cheers!

Hey Guys, both myself and another member ("denoiser") who has read our little winloader instruction page has come up with a problem - I'm also having the same problem! We've downloaded the screenshots and boxscans from the links you provided: http://gbamiga.elowar.com/files/@Main/Game...ete%20v1.5).zip http://gbamiga.elowar.com/files/Extras/Gam...ete%20v1.5).zip We've unzipped the files, and pointed winuaeloader to the unzipped folder (containing 0-9 and a-z). We've created a new folder to put the output files in, and pointed 'destination folder' to that new folder. When you click on create artwork, it creates three folders in the destination folder 'Gamebase', 'sps', and 'WHDload'. The problem is - these folders are empty? Obviously we're doing something silly - but I'm not sure what. It seems the programme is creating the folders to put the artwork in, but not actually converting anything. I've also tried pointing the source folder tab actually into an inner folder such as 'a', which directly contain files, but still no luck :0( Thanks guys.

Hey HK - Enjoying playing games via the wonders of your loader. Its amazing though, that as I seem to get older, I seem to be awful at playing the games I once loved :0( Anyway, using your key mapping bit in the loader, I've configured port 0 to be a mouse, and port 1 a keyboard, as with the original amiga spec. Then my keyboard hack, connected to the keyboard port of the PC, supplies two joysticks and buttons for each side! I then configured the joysticks into the 'mouse' and 'keyboard a' sections of the loader - RESULT! It works fine for most things - but I realise that on some games (like "Supercars 2", or "Goldenaxe") I need to be using a configuration for two joysticks (rather that mouse and keyboard). I can easily open up the loader and toggle port 0 (mouse) into a joystick - but is there any way of doing this without having to open the loader and change the specs? Also some games require a joystick in each port - PLUS you needed to press a button on the keyboard for each player to toggle weapons, etc. Is it possible to configure the extra joystick buttons I have (which are unused as the amiga only had one fire button on its joysticks) to other buttons? Eg, button 1 = FIRE, but button 2 = AmigaShiftLeft, frie button 3 = LeftAmigaButton, fire 4 = RightAmigaButton....... ETC I can safely configure up, down, left, right and fire, but thats it I think? Was the Amiga just the most complicated game system ever?! Sorry if it doesn't make a lot of sence. Cheers!

Shame. Any news on a release date? Any chance you will add this into your loader HK? I'm sure I can be persuaded to donate again ;0)

Whats demobase? and is it hard to set up?!!?!?!?

What a shame. Demos were very much a part of the Amiga, and I'd like to hope the programme will be updated. I've loaded that file (WinUAELoader\Data\WHDLoad.xml) up in word, and can see how it works (i think), but it would take me several years to get it right!! I think I'll leave it! I suppose I can just load the individual files into winuae that I download through KG's website, or will these only load through whdload? Blimey I'm out of my depth I think. I know I can download .adf files and play through winuae I think - maybe I'll just stick to them. We worked out how to get the games playing through gameEx, and I'm now been thrashed at all my old favourites. As soon as its my lads bedtime, I'm sneaking on the cab for extra practice!!

Hello again.......! I have seen a number of .adf files (demos) that I'd like to download....Can these be changed into WHDload format and added to the database, or is there a way these can be added into the loader? Many thanks!!

Australia?? I've been posting all through the day here in the UK - and its now 6pm - so you've been posting all through the night! Blimey. Thats devotion to duty :0)

Not a problem. I presume sometimes you get people on here who simply can't be bothered to look for themselves how to do stuff. Or they wont be polite, or care about the amount of time taken for these things to be worked out. This ISN'T me however, I tried for days and days to no avail, and if it hadn't of been for you spending the time with me, I'd have got nowhere. Although I DID try to work things out for myself, using other posts, it just wouldn't work for me with my limited knowledge. At least now I can be called upon for advice myself from what I've learned, and my lad can enjoy all these games I've been going on about for years! BTW, where abouts are you based HEADKAZE? UK, USA, ETC?

Just donated. Many thanks

Can I also say that even though instructions that are written and presented with programmes may be easy to understand for some - to others they are impossible! So Many thanks go to HEADKAZE who has obviously taken a lot of time to help me out with this. Just one more thing - What does the 'convert artwork' bit do !! :0) Thanks J

Your a star! I finally have amiga games running. Now just got to set up my GameEx to load them up. Which I hope to be able to do! Many Many thanks. You wrote the loader didn't you? Do you have a paypal donations page?

Oops. I'll try downloading the others and try again! So lets say one of these games needs an update, if I just put the updates in the same folder as the games, will the loader select the game, and find the update also. Or is there another complicated ritual to patch the updates over the original games files? Thanks for your patience Headkaze

Would those files be in the c:\emulators\winuaeloader\data folder?

Sorry, games folder picture took a little longer to upload as it was bigger than 2m. Downsized it and uploaded it. I visited the page specified in the links section, and downloaded one of the 'packs' - february updates, to be exact.

Sorted! I now am able to run the 4 games that are available in the window! I have the screen shots saved - just working out how to attach them as there only seems to be a tab to enter a URL.

Just a quick reply before I post the screen pictures. Just to make sure I'm not doing anything silly :0) Additional information below. Working towards getting the screenshots now. I looked in the kickstarts folder I have, and indeed, I notice I DO have the correct revisions of them. I have renamed them, and put the in the correct folders as you stated. I have double checked all the roms, which are in the right folders - all zipped just like in your picture. I then run winuae Loader, and go to 'game testing' - it seems to STILL only pick up only four out of the 70 games I have stored in the folder. Now I'm sure I'm doing something silly. But despite going through everything, I still can't get it to show the others. When I try and run one of the (4) games through games test, WinUAE message comes up, telling me a KS rom v3.1 is required to run it. I put the kickstart roms in the locations you asked me to, but do I need to also specify winuae to have a rompath for v3.1, and not the v1.3 I have in it presently? Thanks again. Pics on the way - If I can get it to do it! James

I'm sorry, I'm not very good at all this. It took us a couple of weeks to work out how to get winuae to play a game! I did put the information up I thought you needed to know, but maybe I'm not putting up the right info! Yes, my games folder looks like your post. It has all the games zipped like in yours. I pointed the loader to that durectory. Yes I have the kickstarts I need (v1.3, v3.1) ALTHOUGH these are probably older revisions as they were obtained some months ago. I can easily copy the ones I have into the folder, and rename them, but wasn't sure if it needed to be the exact revisions that you posted, or just make sure I have v1.3 and rename it. Sorry for the frustration, but I'm still trying to get my head round all the terms and operation of these things :0( Thanks again. James

Hmm, I have the kickstarts, but do they need to be the correct versions? My kickstart 1.3 came from a torrent file thats a year old or so. I presume if I just put my "kickstartv13.rom" into the folder, it wont recognise it - or will it? Same goes for the other kickstarts ..... I presume they're older versions than is required. Would not having these kickstarts in this folder affect winuaeLoader from picking up the files in my games folder? Its currently only picking up 4 of them :0(

Great! So that bit seems to be right. Ok, I have unzipped one of my downloads (contains 70 zipped games files). I have pointed the the 'WHDload games' path in the 'game folders' bit to the folder containing these files (70 of them). I go onto the 'tools' tab, select "WHDload" under 'game testing', and click run game. Its only brought up 4 games!??!!?! I attempt to load one, and it tells me I need KICKSTART rom v3.1 (I have v.1.3 installed in winuae I think, but have the others) :0) So I presume all the games downloadable from KG's website are configured to run under a certain winuae configuration? Is this configuration set out somewhere, or will each game need to be configured :0( Many thanks again!

OK, I put the zipped game files into a folder 'roms'. I pointed winuae loader "gamefolders - WHDload games" to that folder. Next I went to the 'tools' tab and on 'game testing', selected WHDload. I clicked on RUNGAME - which only brought up 4 games (and 3 of them are drakkhen!) - whats happened to the other 70 games in the 'roms' folder?? :0( Confused. ALSO, I presume the winuae I'm using will need to be saved using a certain configuration? Will this be 512k, or some other settings? Or are these explained somewhere to use the WHDload games through Winuaeloader, through gameEx.....

Thanks HEADKAZE - your support is very much appreciated. I was using as second PC to try and load winuae loader, so as not to mess up the one in our arcade cab. It didn't have direct X installed - but I've now put it on the arcade cab computer and its loaded up fine. Ok, in 'paths', i've pointed the first box to winuae.exe Next is 'Game folders'. Now I have a folder full of amiga games in .adf files - do I need to point the paths in 'Game folders' to these - or shall I forget these, and download the WHDload games packages? (I PRESUME these (WHDload zipped files) are a massive stock of games from all generations, and more than the 100 or so I have already stored in .adf files???) Anyway, once downloaded, I presume I point the 'WHDload games' tab in the 'gamefolders' section to the directory of the download I made from the WHDload (guildserver.co.uk) site? Will I need to unzip the file, or will the individual folders need doing anything with? Many many thanks! I'm hoping me spelling this out will help any other people who are hoping to get things to work, but have no real technical knowledge...... One other thing - I did try reading the 'readme' in winuae loader. But got stumped at the first hurdle. The 'usage' bit (which I presume explains how it works) states: WinUAELoader.exe -mode [gamebase|whdload|sps] - game "file" Now I'm sure If I understood what that all meant I could have a go at working this thing out!!! Is this a command line, to be inserted somewhere? And the bits in brackets are supposed to have things substituted?? oh blimey! I told you I was a newbie to emulators! Sorry if this sounds a bit silly but I'm not too sure how to make use of the information supplied..... Many thanks. JAmes

Please don't think I'm lazy, and want someone to do all the work for me - but we're having problems understanding how to set up the Amiga emulator via gameEx. We've taken about two weeks to get gameEx to launch winuae, and a game, but have been unable to map our keyboard hacked joystick panel to map to winuae. IS there an idiots guide out there that explains how to set up winuae loader? Or someother system through gameEx? I've seen a few posts that say "its easy - just do a config -f (execute/blah##blah-VERYhard" But I'm afraid I don't understand what all that means! There must be a instruction list which says "click on this tab", then insert "this file", then type "this -f{etc" into this box.. etc etc. I'll happily donate to paypal to anyone who can help with a PROPER IDIOTS guide, or happily to charity of persons choice...... Many thanks..... James & Kyle (9)

Hi People, many thanks for everyones help in setting up winuae through gameex. We've learned a lot. Ok, me and my lad have built an arcade cabinet, and following instructions, have managed to hack a keyboard, and wire this to two joysticks and buttons on our arcade cabinet. It works great! You can map your keys in mame, and so everything works fine. I read on a few posts that you CAN'T map your keys in winuae! Is this right? If so, does this mean its not possible to use our keyboard hack to link with a key configuration in winuae!? I'm confused - and I can't get much out of the winuae menu, as I don't really understand what its asking me :0( I have heard I can get WHDload which does it - but its taken us weeks to get this far, and I'd rather not go into something else....Unless we have to! Any help we'd be grateful for! Cheers

Thankyou for your replies! I finally feel like I am getting somewhere. I did try searching the forums, but didn't come accross that file post! Now all I need to do is work out how to 'swap disks' while the emulation is running, and how to configure the amiga controls to my keyboard hack joysticks that we're using for mame! We've built a nice arcade cabinet, and I'm hoping to get it done by Christmas :0) James & Kyle (8 tomorrow!)