Arculator - Acorn Archimedes woes...

vaderag · March 10, 2016

Can anyone please help me with setting up the Acorn Archimedes with HS/RL

It boots perfectly, but will not load anything automatically (not even sure if it would load manually tbh...)

Problem seems to be that nothing is passing through to the emulator - I have set the wait time in the module for well in excess of what it needs to be, but still noting. Looking at the module it seems that it should be a F12 press to kick things off which when I do it manually works to give me a bar, but nothing automated at all...

Anyone able to help?

Thanks

vaderag · March 10, 2016

That might explain it... (tho it isn't even getting to the point where it would enter anything, but I guess that could be because its not seeing anything there)

So, erm, what should I stick in there?!!

Also, I managed to get things working via the gui, but some games e.g. Chuck Rock has 2 discs and it asked me for disc 2 to actually load it. How do I deal with that?

diskmach · March 11, 2016

I have the same problem.

Looked at this thread:

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/7988-acorn-archimedes-setup/page-1?hl=arculator

Followed all the advice there, set up the ExecuteCmds and that, but still the same,

opens the system, but doesn´t load up the game.

Will look into this further shortly.

vaderag · March 11, 2016

I have the same problem.

Looked at this thread:

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/7988-acorn-archimedes-setup/page-1?hl=arculator

Followed all the advice there, set up the ExecuteCmds and that, but still the same,

opens the system, but doesn´t load up the game.

Will look into this further shortly.

Thanks, will check out that thread, but sounds like it wont help... Glad to see I'm not alone in this tho!!

diskmach · March 11, 2016

Weird. When I tried Alerion now it´s working...

But can´t remember changing anything and it wasn´t working before.

But the Menubar is visible and I haven´t tried setting up the controls yet.

Hmm, time to test some more games, hope I can get the ExecuteCmds right...

diskmach · March 11, 2016

Yeah, it´s working...

What can I say? This is too easy. It´s ruining my Friday night troubleshooting

I took the ini list from the thread mentioned above. It has 108 games. In Rocketlauncher I have 134 games (with some 2-disk games).

So it will take some time to get it fixed, especially as I have to figure out the right commands for the games missing...

vaderag · March 11, 2016

Yeah, it´s working...

What can I say? This is too easy. It´s ruining my Friday night troubleshooting

I took the ini list from the thread mentioned above. It has 108 games. In Rocketlauncher I have 134 games (with some 2-disk games).

So it will take some time to get it fixed, especially as I have to figure out the right commands for the games missing...

Thanks mate - that helped.

So... where do i discover what I need to put for the other games.

I have 134 too, so guessing we're on the same list... perhaps we can help each other out here!

I found that my games are names slightly differently to the ini - i.e. most in the ini are (disk 1) (Europe) but my ini is all (Europe) (disk 1)

Plus for example it seems to head for disc 2 of Cannon Fodder, but it's actually Disk1

Also, did you work out what to do about the 2 disc games?

EDIT: Looking at the module, it looks like there is a method RomTableCheck() but i can't see what this is calling or an array for romtable that it appears to be looking at... this might be from somewhere else in RL - i'm not knowledgeable enough to know...

diskmach · March 11, 2016

Seems we have the same set then.

Some games are misspelled here, but I think I´ll keep it like that for now, at least, so as not having to change xml, media, roms and...You know.

Haven´t looked in to how it works with 2 disks yet.

I also thought about how to figure out the right command. Looked around a bit on the web, but can´t find anything.

But, take for example DesktopHacker that is in the XML, but not in the ini. I launched it from Rocketlauncher anyway, it opens up the desktop only.

Now you can go to floppy disk 0 and you see something called dHacker, so I put that in the ini. I think that would be the principle, but it turns out there´s an error anyway,

don´t know if it´s supposed to be launched in another way, or what?

diskmach · March 11, 2016

OK, now I matched the ini with the xml. So time to try to find out those pesky commands.

I don´t know about "Stunt Racer" though. It only has a disk 2, both in the XML and the romset.

And all disks above disk 1 elsewhere are left out of the ini. I don´t know if that is right at this stage.

vaderag · March 11, 2016

Awesome - can you share (paste as code here)

Then we're both working from the same base!!

[incidentally, the reason this is so important to me is that my wife had an acorn and only an acorn growing up - it's her whole youth of gaming (she's not a big gamer anyway!) I want to get this set up for her to say thanks for letting me build a cab ]

diskmach · March 11, 2016

Here you go. I double-checked it, but there are probably some mistakes there.

Hi this is a code box I can´t seem to get rid of  Drank to much wine...

[Settings]
Fullscreen=true
NoBorders=true
FullBorders=false
WaitTime=3000


[3D Tanks (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}3D-Tanks
[Agressor (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Aggressor
[Air Supremecy (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}AirSupmcy
[Alerion (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Alerion
[Alien Invasion (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Invasion
[Aliped (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Game
[All In Boxing (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Boxing
[Amoria (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}AMoriaCFS
[Apocalypse (Europe) (Disk 1)]
OperatingSystem=2
ExecuteCmd={!}Apocalyps
[Archimedes Elite (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Elite
[Archimedes Moria (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}AMoriaCFS
[Arcomini (Europe) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[ArcOmnibus (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Omnibus
[Asylum (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Asylum
[Blitz (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Blitz
[Blowpipe (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Blowpipe
[Bloxed (Europe) [h]]
ExecuteCmd={!}Bloxed
[Bobbie Blockhead vs. The Dark Planet (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}BBvsTDP
[Break 147 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}BREAK_147
[Bubble Fair (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}BubleFair
[Bug Hunter In Space (Europe) [h]]
ExecuteCmd={!}BugHuntII
[Bug Hunter & Moon Dash (Europe) [h]]
ExecuteCmd={!}BugHunter
[Cannon Fodder (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Cannon
[Castle Black Heart (Europe)]
WorkingDir=FastPc
ExecuteCmd={!}BlckHeart
[Cataclysm (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Cataclysm
[Chocks Away (Europe) (Disk 1) (Game Disk)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Chocks
[Chuck Rock (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Chuck
[Cheats 1 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Chess 3D (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Chess3D
[Coconizer (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Coconizer
[Colour Umoria (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Umoria
[Conqueror (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Boot
[Corewars (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Corruption (Europe) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Creepie Crawlie 1 & 2 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Creepie
[Crystal Maze, The (Europe) (Demo) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}CMaze
[DesktopHacker (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}dHacker
[DinoSaw (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}DinoSaw
[Elite (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Enigma (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Enigma
[E-Type (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}E-TYPE
[Fervour (Europe) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Fireball II (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Fireball2
[Fireball II Extra (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Fireball2
[Flashback (Europe) (Demo)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Fruitz (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Fruitz
[Gorm (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Gorm
[Guile (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Guile
[Gyrinus II - Son of Gyrinus (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Gyrinus2
[Hacker, The (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Hamsters (Europe) (Demo)]
ExecuteCmd={!}HeroQuest
[Hero Quest (Europe) [h]]
ExecuteCmd={!}HeroQuest
[Impression Jr (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Interdictor 2 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Interdii
[Iron Lord (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}IronLord
[Ixion (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Ixion
[James Pond (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}JamePond
[Jet Fighter (Europe)]
WorkingDir=JetFighter
ExecuteCmd=jetfighter
[Leeds Utd - Champions! (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}LeedsUtd
[Lemmings (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Lemmings
[Mad Professor Mariarti (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Madprof
[MadDash 2 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}MADDASH
[Manchester United Europe (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}ManUnited
[Master Break (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}MasterBrk
[MicroPower Chess (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Chess3D
[Mig 29 Fulcrum (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}MiG29
[Moonquake (Europe) [h]]
ExecuteCmd={!}Moonquake
[Mr. Doo (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}MrDoo
[Nebulus (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Nebulus
[Newlook(Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Oddball (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Oddball
[Oh, No! More Lemmings! (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}OhNoLemms
[Pac-Mania (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}PacMania
[Paradroid 2000 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Paradroid
[PD Lemings (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Lemings
[PD Lemings (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Lemings
[Pen Down (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Pipemania (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}PipeMania
[Poizone (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Poizone
[Populous (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Populous
[Punters Predictor, The (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}P Predict
[Repton 3 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd=repton3
[Repton 4 - EGO (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd=
[SimCity (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}SimCity
[Simon The Sorcerer (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Simon
[Son of Gyrinus (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Gyrinus2
[Speedball 2 - Brutal Deluxe (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}SpeedBall
[Star Fighter 3000 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Star3000
[Starch (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Starch
[Startwrite (Europe) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Stunt Racer (Europe) (Disk 2)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Super Pool (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}S_Pool
[Superior (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[Superior Golf (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[SWIV (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Swiv
[Talisman (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Talisman
[Terramex (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}boot
[Time Zone (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}TimeZone
[Top Banana (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}banana
[Tower of Babel (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Babel
[Trivial Pursuit (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Triv
[Twinworld (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}TwinWorld
[Warlocks (Europe) (Demo) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}
[White Magic (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}boot
[White Magic 2 (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}boot
[WIMP Game, The (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}WimpGame
[Wolfenstein 3D (Europe) (Disk 1) [b]]
ExecuteCmd={!}Wolf
[World Championship Boxing Manager (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}BoxingMan
[Zool (Europe) (Disk 1)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Zool
WorkingDir=Zool

Findings so far:

I thought the command would be 3D-Tanks, but the hyphen seems to be seen as backslash, I think it was, in Acorn.

Alien Invasion, "Agressor", Air "Supremecy", Alerion, Aliped, All In Boxing working

Amoria bad file name CfsModule

Apocalypse disk 1 launches, says I should insert disk 2 "Planets"?

Realised that you have to remove the spaces in the ExecuteCmd line.

It´s way past midnight here in Tokyo, time to give up. I´ll post again tomorrow.

vaderag · March 11, 2016

Odd 3D-Tanks worked for me fine...

Will take a look at the rest if i get chance later... depends on baby and beer...

vaderag · March 11, 2016

Not getting very far with Multi DIsc... RL's own doesnt seem to work, get an ahk_class error, thought it might be the bezel interfering but even with it off i get nothing...

In the meantime, here's a bezel i made attached...

_default.7z

vaderag · March 11, 2016

Damn. Bezels don't work as the window wont resize...

diskmach · March 12, 2016

3D Tanks was due to my having a non-English keyboard. If I switch to English kb, it works.

I don´t think I´ll bother about the Bezel. In general I find it mildly distracting with extra graphics on the screen, I prefer just solid black borders.

Except when they seem more called for, as in MAME or some shmups.

I thought I would just briefly launch all games to make a list of the problematic ones, but the error/problem rate seems to be about 50%, so I don´t

know I´ll probably end up just deactivating games, although I´m going to spend some more time troubleshooting...

diskmach · March 12, 2016

Multi-disk: look at this -

http://forums.jaspp.org.uk:9000/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=125

I´m not sure if this means we have to set up a HDD to make them work...

vaderag · March 12, 2016

Looks like that is for ArcEm rather than Arculator? Which still leaves me at a loss...

Reading around, it seems if we could get the second disc mounted to drive 2 it should work in most games, but I think I'd need to re code the module a bit to do that, as what is there doesn't seem to be working...

diskmach · March 12, 2016

I made an Arculator launch test for all games in my set, see attachment.

Notes.

Yes, I´m overworking this , but it`s actually the last red post in my To Do-list for

Hyperspin, so so be it…J

This is a launch test only, not gameplaying. If it crashes after 5 secs, I don`t know about it.

I`m not sure why many games are not launching automatically, even if working from the floppy.

I think the commands are the right ones in general. If there´s a fix for this, things would look better already.

There are some seemingly random crashes at launch.

I don´t know how to hide the menubar.

I cropped these from the XML:

Amoria – same as Archimedes Moria

Arcomini – I think it´s the same as ArcOmnibus

Cheats 1 – cheats

Chess 3d – same as MicroPower Chess?

Coconizer - Music

Desktop Hacker – not sure what this does

Elite – same as Archimedes Elite (?) but needs password

Newlook – it´s for changing backgrounds etc. on the desktop

Pen Down - word processor

Startwrite – word processor

Stunt Racer –missing disk 1, not starting

The Hacker – just that, a hacking tool

Warlocks - bad disk

I set up controls in my keymapper according to this:

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/7988-acorn-archimedes-setup/page-3?hl=arculator

but haven´t tested it much yet.

For the games that said "WIMP is currently active" when trying to launch them, I got the bright

idea to set up an alternate emulator – copy of Arculator – that boots directly to the command prompt. This seems to have fixed the launching of these when I tried it in original Arculator,

but when testing it in the second one I get an error that I had earlier, grey screen is flashing between

fullscreen and window. Of course I can´t remember the fix for this…

Edit: just remembered – need to run Arculator in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Arculator launch test.txt

vaderag · March 12, 2016

Mate, that's some awesome work. Feeling guilty as haven't had chance to look today due to baby and friends birthday duties . Prob won't get chance tomorrow as gotta go to a christening too... Monday however I totally hope to take a good look at this and at minimum compare notes, best case, work out multi disc...

diskmach · March 13, 2016

Thanks. I know what you´re saying. Got two kids myself, so have to do things in between...

I stopped up at the moment anyway. When testing the "WIMP is currently active" thing, AVG reacted to Arculator.

Now both Arculators crash at startup. I should restart the PC, but am doing some heavy syncing/copying that

should take its course first....

vaderag · March 13, 2016

I made an Arculator launch test for all games in my set, see attachment.

Notes.

Yes, I´m overworking this , but it`s actually the last red post in my To Do-list for

Hyperspin, so so be it…J

This is a launch test only, not gameplaying. If it crashes after 5 secs, I don`t know about it.

I`m not sure why many games are not launching automatically, even if working from the floppy.

I think the commands are the right ones in general. If there´s a fix for this, things would look better already.

There are some seemingly random crashes at launch.

I don´t know how to hide the menubar.

I cropped these from the XML:

Amoria – same as Archimedes Moria

Arcomini – I think it´s the same as ArcOmnibus

Cheats 1 – cheats

Chess 3d – same as MicroPower Chess?

Coconizer - Music

Desktop Hacker – not sure what this does

Elite – same as Archimedes Elite (?) but needs password

Newlook – it´s for changing backgrounds etc. on the desktop

Pen Down - word processor

Startwrite – word processor

Stunt Racer –missing disk 1, not starting

The Hacker – just that, a hacking tool

Warlocks - bad disk

I set up controls in my keymapper according to this:

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/7988-acorn-archimedes-setup/page-3?hl=arculator

but haven´t tested it much yet.

For the games that said "WIMP is currently active" when trying to launch them, I got the bright

idea to set up an alternate emulator – copy of Arculator – that boots directly to the command prompt. This seems to have fixed the launching of these when I tried it in original Arculator,

but when testing it in the second one I get an error that I had earlier, grey screen is flashing between

fullscreen and window. Of course I can´t remember the fix for this…

Edit: just remembered – need to run Arculator in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Okay, so following on from what you've said...

Amoria – same as Archimedes Moria - Agreed. Can't get either to load due to CFG error

Arcomini – I think it´s the same as ArcOmnibus - Agreed. There are 7 separate games here - I plan to separate these out in the XML. They are !aMaze !Balloon !Cribbage !Dominoes !Moric !OgresLair !PickaPair

Cheats 1 – cheats - Agreed

Chess 3d – same as MicroPower Chess? - Chess 3D and Micropower Chess are the same. The game name is Chess 3D, so I am removing the other. I'm also removing the autoload from the INI as i can't get my mouse back after that meaning you can't do anything...

Coconizer - Music - this is an app for making music, yep

Desktop Hacker – not sure what this does - some weird app for messing with settings on Risc OS (a bit like TweakUI for windows but way less powerful)

Elite – same as Archimedes Elite (?) but needs password Agreed. Archimedes Elite works but again needs clicking on the taskbar so has to be manually launched. EDIT: Using Jameson seems to work (i cant get the special é character to pass), but still needs a click on the taskbar icon. I dont think there is any way to avoid this...

Newlook – it´s for changing backgrounds etc. on the desktop

Pen Down - word processor

Startwrite – word processor

Stunt Racer –missing disk 1, not starting

The Hacker – just that, a hacking tool - this is the precursor to Desktop Hacker according to the readme of that

Warlocks - bad disk

Anything not commented I agree with...

As I say, i've separated out ArcOmnibus - it's a bit messy but works. I left out DOminoes as it's really janky as uses the desktop etc.

Created a new Zip for each game (its 143kb each so not the end of the world), renamed the file in the zip and then updated the xml...

XML:

	<game name="ArcOmnibus - aMaze (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>aMaze (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>
	<game name="ArcOmnibus - Balloon (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>Balloon (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>
	<game name="ArcOmnibus - Cribbage (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>Cribbage (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>
	<game name="ArcOmnibus - Moric (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>Moric (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>
	<game name="ArcOmnibus - Ogres Lair (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>Ogres Lair (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>
	<game name="ArcOmnibus - Pick-a-Pair (Europe)" index="" image="">
		<description>Pick-A-Pair (ArcOmnibus)</description>
		<cloneof></cloneof>
		<crc>F3914AF5</crc>
		<manufacturer>Beebug</manufacturer>
		<year></year>
		<genre></genre>
		<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>
		<enabled>Yes</enabled>
	</game>

INI Code for separating ArcOmnibus

[ArcOmnibus - aMaze (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}aMaze
[ArcOmnibus - Balloon (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Balloon
[ArcOmnibus - Cribbage (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Cribbage
[ArcOmnibus - Moric (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}Moric
[ArcOmnibus - Ogres Lair (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}OgresLair
[ArcOmnibus - Pick-A-Pair (Europe)]
ExecuteCmd={!}PickaPair

vaderag · March 13, 2016

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT!!!

I have got Multi-DIsc working!!!

So... the Module is incorrect, tho mostly there.

1) Extract Multi-disc games so they are not in zip

2) Change out the section below in the module - it was missing an enter keystroke and also broke if you were not using fullscreen

3) Win

MultiGame:
	WinMenuSelectItem, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp,, Disc, Change Disc, Drive 0...
	OpenROM("Open ahk_class #32770",selectedRom)
	Send {Enter}
	If (Fullscreen = "true")
		WinMenuSelectItem, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp,, Video, Fullscreen
	WinActivate, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp
	If (Fullscreen = "false")
			WinActivate, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp
Return

Use your multi-disk key as set up once you need to change disks, select the disk you need and voila

NB. Only tested with Chuck Rock so far...

diskmach · March 14, 2016

Wow! Thanks. Now we´re getting somewhere.

I finally restarted and Arculator is back up. Might manage to check a few things out now.

I followed your advice on ArcOmnibus, they are all launching now.

Impression Jr is also a word processor, so I disabled that.

I´m making some wheels that I can´t find anywhere. Will up when finished. Although you gave me more work

by separating ArcOmnibus... Can´t guarantee the quality though. Art isn´t my strong side...

Edit: The wheels are actually in the existing wheel set, named "Amaze Omnibus" etc. Except for Moric.

Multi-disk: I´m missing something, is there a default key for switching disk? Or how do you set it up?

diskmach · March 14, 2016

Well, this isn´t exactly bug free...

Now I can´t reproduce the earlier success with the "WIMP is not currently active" games, as my alternate

emulator starting doing the "grey screen is flashing between fullscreen and window" thing again, and now it doesn´t help with setting compatibility to XP.

Doesn´t help if I just copy over the original Arculator either. I can actually see the difference, because the Windows top bar looks different in the working one.

vaderag · March 14, 2016

So... for multidisc you need to turn it on in RL. Under Settings -> Multigame -> Enable

Then set a key under General Settings -> Controls -> Multigame

I've created a couple of Acorn specific disc swap images (attached) - changing the background colour works with this well - stick it in the Multigame folder in RL Media

Tested this with a couple of other games and works so long as Bezels are disabled. It is a little bit flakey tho - sometimes, due to all of the screen flickering and stuff it doesnt seem to send the command correctly... this only happens in fullscreen...

I've fixed this by adding a small delay

Sleep, 1000

before the send Enter...

I've tried a billion different ways of getting this to run either a) larger in a bezel or without the menu bar in fullscreen. Nothing seems to work... It's definitely less flakey if you run windowed but not ideal...

Further game info:

Blowpipe: CHange to DIsc 2 but cannot get past the screen, no matter what i press...

Simon the Sorcerer: Copy Protection. Removing as other versions around.

Gyranius II and Son of Gyranius are the same - removing Gyranius II

Zool: Copy Protection

Update

I was getting some seriously glitch graphics after loading disc 2 - seems it wasnt getting back to fullscreen properly. Resending the command after a delay seems to work. So messy, but still...

MultiGame:
	WinMenuSelectItem, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp,, Disc, Change Disc, Drive 0...
	OpenROM("Open ahk_class #32770",selectedRom)
	Sleep, 1000
	Send {Enter}
	If (Fullscreen = "true")
		WinMenuSelectItem, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp,, Video, Fullscreen
		Sleep, 1000
		WinMenuSelectItem, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp,, Video, Fullscreen
	WinActivate, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp
	If (Fullscreen = "false")
			WinActivate, Arculator ahk_class WindowsApp
Return

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