A: In Amiga Forever and C64
Forever the software and
title-specific options are abstracted from
the low-level emulation options. This allows titles to be stored as cross-platform
RP9 files that can be
run by different "player" applications on a variety of
desktop and mobile systems for years to
come, even as the underlying emulation
engines are updated and may use different
low-level configurations. For example, in Amiga
Forever for Windows titles may already be
played back using either WinUAE
or WinFellow.
The recommended approaches for changing
settings are:
- Program-wide options are set via the Options
dialog, accessible from the Tools menu of
the Amiga Forever player. Some of the
settings that can be edited here include a choice
of video modes, and default printer and MIDI
devices.
- Title-specific options, including Amiga
and CBM hardware, RAM, media, etc., are set in the
title editor, i.e. right-clicking a title and
selecting Edit.
Under the hood, emulation engine configurations are built
at runtime
from data files located in a directory like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloanto\Amiga
Forever\Player\Plugins\WinUAEPlugin" or
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Cloanto\C64
Forever\Player\Plugins\VICEPlugin",
plus some data generated on the fly by the
software (also based on settings such as
those in Tools/Options). The data is
constructed in four steps:
- The shared data file (shared.ini) is
loaded first
- Data from a configuration-specific
file (e.g. a-500.ini) is added
- Software-generated data is added
- Data from override.ini is added last
Although this is not a recommended
approach, the individual
INI files are editable.
The plugin logging options
can be used to verify the resulting .uae,
.wfc and .ini files after launching a title.
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