Insert/Remove ADF images by Drag and Drop!
Contents:
- What’s New?
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Download
- Installation
- GUI Usage
- Shell Usage
- Technical info
- Bugs-Warnings-Todo
- History
- Legal Stuff
- Updates-Feedback
See also:
- Back to the Roots
- Amiga Emu FAQ Search
- Amiga floppy reader
- UAE Metamonk
- Amiga Metamonk
The CxPopup-AppWindow (MCP patched intuition)
The Workbench AppIcon
What’s New?
As of version 0.1.5, the program will no longer be launched from WBStartup. The executable is called “UA” now for good, and its location is C: from now on. A new command “ua startup” was added to launch the server from user-startup. Configuration no longer comes from the icon tooltypes, but from environment vars, which get created/modified by a comfortable installer script. The installer script preserves existing configuration from now on, just this time you will have to enter hostpath and hostslash again. UAE-App is now availlable in two versions, the normal one which just contains all my work, and the “fat” version which includes all optional files, to allow an “installation in one go” with just answering two questions. The documentation has been improved, and an amigaguide version has been included, with basic online help features in the GUI.
Introduction
UAE-App is a Commodity integrating the DF0: – DF3: ADF disk emulation control of UAE in the Amiga-OS. It provides the entire scale of Amiga User-Interfaces, to make ADF disk emulation handling as simple as possible. A popup GUI for all functions is provided, as well as a shell scripting interface. Archiving and dearchiving functions are implemented to handle gzip/zip/dms compressed disk images with or without GUI.
Requirements
UAE-App requires at least V37 of the Amiga-OS (Kick 2.04/Workbench 2.04), running on any port of UAE which allows to mount parts of the native host filesystem as amiga volumes. It was successfully tested with recent Windows, Linux, Mac and Amiga ports of UAE. UAE-App does not require any special libraries, just those which are part of the AmigaOS. However, if you want to enable the optional archiving support functions you need to have the GZip/UnZip/xDMS executables in your C: directory and of course ixemul.library in your libs: folder. If you do not already have these files present, you should consider to download the “fat” version, which contains them all. (See “Download” below)
Download
- uae-app_015_fat.lha (250K) FAT version
- uae-app_015.readme (14K)
Installation
IMPORTANT: If you do not already have UAE-App 0.1.4 and its optional files on your system, you should download the “fat” version of UAE-App, since it contains all necessary compression utilities with a common installer script, doing all in one go. (see “Download” section above). The fat version is not spread through aminet, so if you got this archive from aminet you should go to http://uae-app.back2roots.org/ to get the latest fat version of UAE-App.
1) Mount a new volume “ADF:” using the UAE-GUI or UAE commandline-arguments. This must be a native-filesystem harddisk emulation, no harddisk image! Put all your ADF images there and start UAE to check if the new volume appears on your workbench.
2) Unpack the UAE-App archive in a temporary folder and double click the “Install” icon. The installation script will prompt you to anwer two questtions about the new volume “ADF:” which you have mounted before. First you will get asked for the path of the mounted directory within your host filesystem. Sample answer is “D:\amiga\adf\”. Make sure that this path ends in a delimiter! Next you will have to enter the slash character used in your host filesystem to divide directorynames from filenames within pathes. Sample answer is “\”. That’s all. Once installation is finished UAE-App will be launched automatically so you will not have to reboot.
Note: The installation script automatically shuts down your old UAE-App server (if it is running). Whenever you want to change the settings of your UAE-App installation you just need to run the installation script again. You do not need to enter all information again, since it will be retrieved from your current settings.