PRG Starter (v2.4.6)

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:17 am

The little program you always wanted to have (even if you didn't know it yourself

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http://www.boray.se/software/prgstarter/

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:53 am

Geez, THIS is a utility! Thanks!

nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:59 am

very useful !

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:14 pm

Where's the Linux version? Do you want someone (ahem) to port this?

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:10 pm

rhurst wrote:Where's the Linux version? Do you want someone (ahem) to port this?

What programming language would you be using then? It's written in Visual Basic 2008 Express.

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:48 pm

GNU C using GTK2, but of course. If I wanted it done in an hour, I would consider porting your Visual BASIC directly into Gambas2.

But was you thinking something cross-developed to multi-platforms, i.e., using a .NET / Mono solution? Let me know, seriously, I (and others) would love to have a launcher like that from Linux.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:38 pm

The Linux clone is yours! Just sent you a PM...

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:04 pm

Thankyou very much! This is a really handy little program.

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 4:38 pm

Thanks, Boray ... gives me something to tinker with on the train rides into work!

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:36 am

Great program. I'll be using this a lot.

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:27 pm

Yes, thank you for this simply elegant solution ... I am now enjoying the port to Linux on my Fedora desktop. Double-click associated filetypes (.prg, .p00, .crt, .d64, etc. etc.) and it automagically runs the correct VICE emulator and configuration.

I have not run into any use-case where it fails, although my active CBM library is far from immense. If I do, I'll forward my thinking to you.

My favorite invocation is still:

$ run mega-cart.rom

Or double-click it -- that's cool!

edit: you can read about it at my blog post.

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:55 pm

A version with .P00 file support will be available tomorrow (when I have bugtested it)...

rhurst · Post by **rhurst** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:22 pm

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 6:55 pm

V1.1 is now available with P00 file support.

ral-clan · Post by **ral-clan** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 9:41 am

Just downloaded v1.1

Here's some wierd behaviour: When I start certain PET .prg files (blitz.prg for example) your loader program starts it up in BOTH PET and VIC-20 emulators simultaneously!

I have two emulators running on the screen at the same time (of course the program doesn't work in the VIC).

Other PET games ("polezei.prg") for instance will start up in VIC-20 mode and not in the proper PET mode.