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TheGoose
10-29-2010, 04:36 PM
How would you go about making an Amiga that would just boot up to a menu of games (maybe WHDload style)? Kinda like the way MAME machines are setup.
save2600
10-29-2010, 04:59 PM
How would you go about making an Amiga that would just boot up to a menu of games (maybe WHDload style)? Kinda like the way MAME machines are setup.

You'd write a script for WHDLoad or whatever (a frontend as they call it) and then edit your sys:s/startup-sequence or user-startup file pointing to your frontend so that it'd load a menu of all the games upon startup.

...already been done IIRC. Might be on Aminet in fact. Sho' nuff, here's one:

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/iGame

...cool idea btw. I've always wanted to do something similar and still may. I have a couple of stripped out arcade cabs sitting around doing nothing. As well as a couple of Amiga mainboards w/ hard cards, etc. Would be extremely easy to "build" an Amiga arcade system :)
TheGoose
10-29-2010, 05:22 PM
Ah I figured it had been solved. Thanks 2600. Now I just need a A600...
Hmm, I can see it. I'm gonna route the JOYs to the front...
save2600
10-29-2010, 05:35 PM
...and you know about pinouts.ru, right?

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari2600_pinout.shtml

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/AmigaMouseJoy_pinout.shtml

:)
TheGoose
10-29-2010, 05:55 PM
...and you know about pinouts.ru, right?

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickAtari2600_pinout.shtml

http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/AmigaMouseJoy_pinout.shtml

:)

Oh the easiest ports to re-locate, just need ribbon cable and ICD 9 crimp connectors:
http://www.altex.com/Assets/ProductImages/IDC9S.jpg

Done it that way many a time.
save2600
10-29-2010, 06:10 PM
Done it that way many a time.

Cool! Be sure to post some pics of your project when you're done. No need to limit yourself to an A600 mobo though. Be easier to find an A500 or A1200. ****, I have an A500 mobo nailed to the wall of my computer room, but has a video problem. lol