Is there a way to tell which version of a game is supported?

starvingwriter82

So, I downloaded the TOSEC collection of games, because I know that is what Lemonade pulls most of its "playable" versions from, but, as it turns out (lol) the file I downloaded is actually toocomprehensive - for example, there are 15 .adf files for Battle Chess - all different versions.

My hard drive simply can't take the strain. Laughing

Is there a way for me to figure out which version of a game is supported? The best way I can think of is to extract all 15 files (the zip is well over 10 megs, so lemonade doesn't look in the zip file), do a scan for all unplayable games, see which one lemonade picks up, then delete the unused files.

Since this can be quite cumbersome, I wanted to make sure there wasn't a more efficient way to do it, that I was missing. Smile

Edit: I guess I can ask this question here as well: How do you guys fit the TOSEC collection onto your drives? Even the zipped version was 3 gigabytes, so I was only into the Ms before I worked through a decent sized hard drive.

My only options seem to be: extract games one by one as I want to play them, or manually extract pieces of the TOSEC collection in 10 MB pieces (which takes a LONG time, after 18 seperate zip files I was up to "Ad" in the alphabet, and I realized the futility of it all.

I double checked, and all the files I have for the TOSEC commercial games alone would come out to just shy of 19 gigabytes - is there something I'm missing here, or is everyone just sitting around with 19gb committed to Amiga games? Embarassed

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Belgarath · Amiga Junkie Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 472

27.7 gig here

Kim Lemon · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

There's currently no way to find out which versions the scanner supports, so deleting unused files sounds like a massive, nearly impossible job. I would suggest not to spend too much time on this. Smile

When Lemonade 0.99 is out all the work may be wasted. Rolling Eyes

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wiser3 · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject:

I downloaded everything from planet emu, which also left me with a lot of games having multiple adf files. I placed everything in one huge dir and had lemonade do a game scan with the option of moving recognized files to another location (which was on another partition). I then organized all the recognized adf files into alphabetic dirs and had lemonade scan the new location. (The new location only had recognized files but i had to rescan because when i reorganized things lemonade could no longer find the adf files.)
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Anubis · Master of Amiga Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Age: 40 Posts: 1311

wiser,
check if games with more then 4 floppies (eg. Indy 4) have all floppies moved into new location.

After playing a bit with lemonade I found that all of those game are missing all disks after initial 4.

starvingwriter82 · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

wiser3 · Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

Anubis · Master of Amiga Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Age: 40 Posts: 1311

Yes, program is not perfect (yet).

@ Belgarath - I never menaged to put all my amiga stuff into one folder. Have to organize my HDs and I believe I will have close to that size of programs/sets.

Did you get offline list's set?

Methanoid · Newcomer Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 3

wiser3 · Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

Here's a list of the adf file names that Lemonade v0.98 recognised from my tosec collection. Notice that games having more then 4 disks only list the first four - since v0.98 only copies over the first 4 discs of a game it recognizes.

http://www.trep4.com/Amiga/Lemonade098_TOSEC.txt
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