UniRun launcher - v1.21x

[blueznl]

Download:

http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/unirun.zip

What is it?

It's a little tool that will allow you (some day) to load disk-images, games, rom-files into emulators, and similar things. All stuff you can do with batch files and a little patience. And that, my friends, is what I lack. Patience. So, to make my life easier I wrote this tool.

Load games then? Yep. In two flavours...

First regular games, through a disk image (which UniRun is supposed to load and check if it was properly loaded), cd (UniRun opens the drive and pops up a message) or just directly from the disk.

Then there are those emulated games, which typically are a bunch of rom-images, thrown together in a folder then fed to an emulator. Emulators have their peeks and perks, and sometimes it's hard to get things to work properly, either directly or through a so called 'front end' such as Gameex.

It's alpha, beta, experimental whatever. Provided as is, work in progress etc. etc.

Use at your own risk, well, you know the drill...

(I still don't know if I should post this here or in announcements...)

[Kaeru Gaman]

so, does your tool provide some kind of shell?

just asking, cause I downloaded SimCity2000 as Abandonware lately,
and it refused to run reporting an error in dos4gw engine or such...

or has your prog nothing to do with some dosbox or whatever....?

[blueznl]

It's just a shell. Sort of. And yes, it has to do with emulators.

[blueznl]

New version v0.11x.

It's now getting some shape, and even without a decent manual it should be clear (at least a little ) what it does... But if you still want to know: it can be used from within any frontend (that allows calling another program) to launch a game, either via a specific emulator or by directly calling the program.

For PC games, it allows a message to insert a disc, or it can load a disk image. It will then check if it can actually find (a specific file on) that disc, before starting the program.

Changes:

- seperation between (sample) profiles and (standard) tempaltes
- little bit more on screen information
- messages are displayed on their own tab
- few small bugfixes

Download:

http://bluez.home.xs4all.nl/purebasic/unirun.zip

[blueznl]

Update v1.21x.

I've revisited this old program. (Has it been 7 years? Oh my...) I've been using an older version for ages, loading games for the kids. (You know how it is, creating batch files and shortcuts for loading the proper .ISO image for a kid game, setting screen resolution etc., launching the program, etc..)

I had to make some changes and decided to create an improved more universal version. This is an intermediate release that does everything except being totally 'runnable' from the command line. I stripped that part out as it was a bit buggy and in need of a rewrite.

I would like some feedback of people that launch games or emulator roms, to see what I have been missing.

Currently I can...

- start emulators that require drag'n'drop
- kill programs by hooking the Esc key
- call external tools to load / unload disc images
- test for windows and files
- start other programs prior to launch / after ending application
- bring another window to front

Future plans:

- the return of full command line support
- additional menu functions so it can act as a full front end for (m)any emulators and games

Things are going to stay fairly basic. I'm not planning to build some full mame / hyperspin / gameex whatever front-end, just something that's fast, small, and well suited for my own needs

Quick testing:

1. Start the program
2. Load a profile or template
3. Change parameters for your setup
4. Run

There's no help file yet, but the templates are fairly easy. See also the template 'help'.

(The only difference between templates and profiles is where they are stored.)

[heartbone]

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The requested URL /datatalk/unirun.zip was not found on this server.

[Vera]

The requested URL /datatalk/unirun.zip was not found on this server.

You might like to try this one and only uni run

greets ~ Vera

[blueznl]

The requested URL /datatalk/unirun.zip was not found on this server.

You might like to try this one and only uni run

greets ~ Vera

Ooops. Unirun dates back to the time when my homepage didn't have a dedicated Purebasic section. I think I've now removed all old dead links...

[heartbone]

Thanks for the great tool blueznl.
The farther I go, the more I have to remember.
I'm looking forward to using UniRun the next time that I'm in a situation to benefit.

[Vera]

I'm sorry I've been helpfull.

[yrreti]

by Vera » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:35 am
I'm sorry I've been helpfull.

Actually you've been eXTremely helpful vera.
Thanks for creating a web place were we can look to, to be able to find and download some
of those older programs!!!! Thanks very very much.