I have been playing with fs-uae for a few days now and have completely fallen in love with it. I like it better than winuae because I can make little launchers with a specific setup script for each game that I want to run. It's got a retro cool little overlay that looks like my old 1084.. a very nice render.

Here's my setup. I'm running Linux Mint 14. The Amiga there is actually a folder that contains the launchers. I made each icon the box cover of the game. The bottom right is fs-uae running Monkey Island perfectly. Hit F12 and you get a slick little interface to work with. I highly recommend this little emulator.

http://fengestad.no/fs-uae/

Last edited by tommywright on 23-Jan-2013 at 02:39 AM.
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@tommywright

Wow - looks good! I'll have to try this out. Just curious, have you tried a full screen mode, and/or full screen with multi-monitors? I had a heck of a time getting any kind of Linux emulation working with multi-monitors.

Edit: I should clarify - all I'm trying to do is get one screen full, while the other either goes blank, or just shows it's normal desktop. What I always ended up with it a centered image (across both monitors)

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@jabeck

I haven't tried it on dual monitors. I did get that working with winuae just like what you are talking about. I used an old crt for my second monitor. I can't remember how I did it exactly.

Fullscreen mode is what I've been running in by default. I just wanted to show what it looked like (the folder and launchers). I think my laptop (the machine it's running on) does 50khz because it seems very smooth. I like that the overlay is made for the new widescreen monitors but the emulator runs inside the 4:3 screen. :)

@tommywright

I like the amiga icon!!!. Is it custom made, or is available on the net?

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@tommywright

looks great! been meaning to install Mint over my debian install one of these days

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@_ThEcRoW

I found the icon online. Someone had cut it out into a png like that for his blog and I swiped it.

I've been using Mint since v11 and I love it. I have one of those beefy System 76 laptops that I run it on. I'm very happy with it. Just add dconf and customize it out the way you want.

@tommywright

Yes, I love Mint too. Lots of minty flavors to choose from too!

@tommywright

I also run Linux Mint 14 and found this version of UAE last month and although the launcher hasn't got all of the options E-UAE has I find it friendlier to use. Best if all F12 brings up options and allows you to exit full screen mode like WinUAE, I could never get out of full screen in the other Linux UAE's

@Tommywright

Can you point me out to the icon?

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@_ThEcRoW

It's the image at the top of this site...
http://www.grebz.fr/jv_amiga_english.phphttp://www.grebz.fr/jv_amiga_english.php

For me, half the fun is finding all the images for icons. The box art was awesome back then. :)

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@tommywright

The image could have done with some down-scaling for web site purposes, but ok

It does look good. Very good.

I'm trying to install it on Debian, the sources needed some modification.

So far I've replaced "Depends: libcapsimage4" with "Depends: libfs-capsimage4" for libfs-capsimage4-dev in debian/control, that brought me to an installed libfs-capsimage4(-dev).

Then in fs-uae I had to change this:

			if (log)
				write_log (txt);
			else
				console_out (txt);
			if (tmp[0]) {
				if (log)
					write_log (tmp);
				else
					console_out (tmp);
			}

			if (log)
				write_log (_T("%s"),txt);
			else
				console_out (txt);
			if (tmp[0]) {
				if (log)
					write_log (_T("%s"),tmp);
				else
					console_out (tmp);
			}

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@olegil

Now I've tried it. It complains about missing config file, doesn't give me a sensible menu (looks bloody awesome, though. Good old Amiga in-game menu look), and the launcher is non-existant.

This needs a LOT more work to be useful to most people

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This weeks pet peeve:
Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@olegil

I think I took mine straight from the Software Center in Mint/Ubuntu so mine just worked out of the box (it might not be the latest though). I had to install both "fs-uae" and "fs-uae launcher" and I think there was a library I had to add... can't remember now.

@tommywright

Well I tried it, and for the most part I like it. One odd thing: coming out of full screen mode sometimes causes the X session to exit, which is annoying to say the least.

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@olegil

fs-uae_2.1.19dev-0_amd64.deb
fs-uae_2.1.19dev-0_i386.deb

fs-uae-launcher_2.1.19dev-0_all.deb

libfs-capsimage4_4.2-1_amd64.deb
libfs-capsimage4_4.2-1_i386.deb

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@bison
Quote:

One odd thing: coming out of full screen mode sometimes causes the X session to exit, which is annoying to say the least.

That is odd, I don't have any problems here just goes back to desktop as it should

@Arnie

I neglected to check .xsession-errors -- that will probably give me some clues. It's kind of disconcerting that I'm the only one (that I know of) that is having this problem.

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@bison

Are you using F12 + F? I don't have that issue either.

@tommywright

No, I think I was probably using F12 + S, although I'm not certain -- I'm trying to reconstruct the crime in my mind.

I'll try F12 + F when I get home and see how it works. Thanks for the suggestion.

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@tommywright

Quote:

It's the image at the top of this site... http://www.grebz.fr/jv_amiga_english.phphttp://www.grebz.fr/jv_amiga_english.php For me, half the fun is finding all the images for icons. The box art was awesome back then. :)

hmmn 404... ?