AS-Gen v0.4 - SD2IEC autoswap.lst generator (disk swapping)

kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

Hi everyone, I recently picked up an SD2IEC card and I wanted autoswap lists set up for each game directory. This is a painful thing to do manually so I wrote a program to do it for me as well as providing options to clean up all the "junk" files (i.e. anything other than .d64 and .prg files) that I didn't want in my games folder.

AS-Gen v0.4
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68787224/AS-Gen_v0.4.zip

Included in the zip file is the program and the readme. AS-Gen is written in java so you'll need to have the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) installed - after that my program should work fine on any platform.

Here's the README.TXT on its own:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68787224/README.TXT

Let me know if you found it useful or have bug-reports / ideas for improvement. Thanks.

datronics · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject:

Hi,

It is a nice tool, but sometimes the images order is not correct in the generated autoswap.lst, like the following:

Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(Fixed)_Side_3.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(FBI_Crew)_Side_0.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(FBI_Crew)_Side_1.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(FBI_Crew)_Side_2.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(FBI_Crew)_Side_3.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(None)_Side_1.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(None)_Side_2.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(None)_Side_3.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(Fixed)_Side_1.d64
Sentinel_Worlds_I_-_Future_Magic_(Fixed)_Side_2.d64

I am on ubuntu.
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kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

datronics wrote:

It is a nice tool, but sometimes the images order is not correct in the generated autoswap.list.

Thanks for the reply. I didn't read your example properly before.

Will post a fix soon.

kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

Fixed now and the file linked to in my opening post has been updated, sorry about that - and thanks for bringing it to my attention. I thought I explicitly ordered files alphabetically but it turns out I forgot to. It just so happens that my games folder that I tested this on was already naturally ordered correctly.

You can re-run the new version of the program and it will replace any existing autoswap.lst files.

I think I'll also add another change soon so that my program generates autoswap lists that use carriage-returns as well as a new-line to separate entries. Some editors (such as notepad on windows) will show the list as all being on a single line because I only used the latter. This could confuse someone wanting to make a manual edit or having a look at the file. I'm fairly certain that SD2IEC will be fine with either approach, but I'll confirm before making the change as I don't have my C64 with me at the moment.

Mamejay · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:55 am Post subject:

Good stuff mate!! Works a treat.

Would be awesome for someone to put together an archive of multi-game disks in folders

i have been going through my set that I have and copying D64 images to separate folder. Its a bit of a pain as I have to rename the disk image to 8:3 format.

kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

Thanks.

Mamejay wrote:

Would be awesome for someone to put together an archive of multi-game disks in folders

I came across an archive of games that had games in individual folders not long ago. That's actually the archive I wrote/used my program for. It had a lot of .T64 files, and occasionally had .SID, .TXT and other stuff in there which is why I added the delete options ( though the autoswap.lst files generated will ignore them either way).

Here it is:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent..._Emulators

I was meaning to find a tool to extract the contents out of .T64 files. Anyone know a good command-line tool to do this?

Unseen · Forum Junkie Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 440

kokapetl wrote:

I'm fairly certain that SD2IEC will be fine with either approach, but I'll confirm before making the change as I don't have my C64 with me at the moment.

diskchange.c, lines 128-129:

Code:

/* Skip line terminator */
while (*str == '\r' || *str == '\n') str++;

kokapetl wrote:

I was meaning to find a tool to extract the contents out of .T64 files. Anyone know a good command-line tool to do this?

cbmconvert should be able to do it
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kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

Unseen wrote:

diskchange.c, lines 128-129:

Code:

/* Skip line terminator */
while (*str == '\r' || *str == '\n') str++;

Perfect, I'll use \r\n then to keep notepad users (and whoever else) happy.
edit: I found something better: System.getProperty("line.separator"); This is the cleanest way I can think of doing it. This will mean that in the highly unlikely case that someone running this program with JVM on am old version of QNX OS, the autoswap.lst won't be compatible with SD2IEC (but not even unicode standard seems to consider it so I certainly won't. ;)

Unseen wrote:

cbmconvert should be able to do it

Thanks, I'll check it out.

stu232 · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:10 pm Post subject:

kokapetl wrote:

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Here it is:
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/5840165/

My ISP has blocked access to TPB however it is possible to visit the site via a proxy, can someone give me the name of this file so as I can search for it.
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mrnukem · Newbie Joined: 22 Apr 2012 Posts: 9

This is a great utility. Ran it on my uIEC 8 GB SD card and it worked perfectly so thank you very much!

stu232 · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject:

Care to give me the file name please? Smile

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kokapetl · Newbie Joined: 23 Jan 2012 Age: 32 Posts: 43

stu232 wrote:

Care to give me the file name please? Smile

The torrent title was "Commodore_64_-_Games__-Z___Emulators". I can't check the filename as thepiratebay is down at the moment.

mrnukem wrote:

This is a great utility. Ran it on my uIEC 8 GB SD card and it worked perfectly so thank you very much!

Thanks, glad it helped Smile