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Emulator for dummies.

  • 25-04-2006 10:53am
    #1
    Pigman II
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    A friend of mine wants to relive one single particular c64 game "Snare".

    Thing is he's not very literate and I'd be wasting my time and breath guiding him thru the steps (1) explaining what a emulator is (2) setting up an emulator (3) attaching roms etc etc....

    I was wondering , is there a program out there that could take an emulator program and a single disk image and recompile it all down into one single "exe" file so that all the file did was play the rom that had been combined?

    I don't think Snare is multiload so there'd really be no need to ever access the emulator menu either afaik.


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  • #2
    silverlining
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    1. Not quite what you wanted but very easy once it's set up once:

    Download winVICE and extract the zip file to C:\winvice or something

    Browse to where the ROM is stored, right-click on it, select 'Open' and when asked what to open it with just browse to C:\winvice\x64.exe and make sure you tick the 'alwys use this program to open these files' tickbox.

    Now all he has to do is doubleclick on the ROM file (or any c64 ROM file) and windows will automatically open it in Winvice.

    2. Slightly easier for him:
    You could also create a simple batch file for him if your up for it. Just copy the ROMS into the same folder as winvice and create a file in notepad named loadsnare.bat or something with just the following line:

    C:\winvice\x64.exe snare.d64

    (or whatever the ROM is called). When he doubleclicks on loadsnare.bat it'll run the above command as long as winvice is in the correct location and the snare ROM is in the same directory. If you want to keep the ROMS separate then just change the line in the batch file to soomething like this:

    c:\winvice\x64.exe c:\misc\ROMs\c64\snare.d64

    If using notepad, make sure that you select 'save as...' not just 'save', name the file something.bat and change the 'save as type:' bit to 'all files'. If you dont do this there's a good chance windows will put a .txt extension on the file (something.bat.txt) which wont work.


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