AGS is a joystick controlled menu program for the Amiga. It
requires a joystick in port 2 and an AGA Amiga.
Installation
Put the ArcadeGameSelector somewhere in the
path, like in C:. Assign AGS: to a directory where you
intend to keep your start scripts. Oh yeah, start scripts -- all AGS does is
search AGS: for a bunch of files ending with .start, and then
displays them in a menu. When the user selects something it copies the
relevant script to AGS:.run and quits. A small script like this
should do the necessary magic: Assign AGS: DH1:Games
Lab loop
ArcadeGameSelector
IF EXISTS AGS:.run
Execute AGS:.run
Delete AGS:.run
Skip loop
EndIf
Save the script to S:Startup-Sequence and you have a dedicated
game machine.
Scripts, Screenshots, and Info
As just a list of filenames would be a
bit too bland AGS loads a background image called
AGS:SelectorBKG.iff. It should be a 640x256x8 bit ILBM. For each game
AGS looks for a .txt and a .iff file with the same base name. name.iff
should be a 320x128x8 bits image using the same palette as the background
image. name.txt should be a text file with max 40 characters per line
and 12 lines of text. The first line will appear by itself and should contain
the full title of the entry. The 11 following lines are printed in the info
box below.
Download
- ags10.lha, 44
kB LhA archive
- AGS 1.0 and some example files. Double-click on AGS to run the test
script.
To do
Make it OCS/ECS compatible, ability to choose a different
screenmode, arbitrary placement and size of screen elements, config file. Oh,
and get a real screenshot instead of that old mockup up there.
Source
AGS is written in AmigaE. The source needs to be cleaned up and
commented but will probably be included in a later release. Contact me if you for some reason need
to look at it earlier.
