UAE Built-in lha support (but how does this work?)

Anthony Burns · Newcomer Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Age: 30 Posts: 4 Location: UK

I have downloaded the latest version of UAE, which came with an extensive list of fixes and improvements including "Built-in lha/lzh and lzx support". Unfortunately, there is no similarly extensive list of instructions on how to use said features ...

I have tried to load an .lha file in the same manner as a floppy disk file, but that had no effect whatsoever, so I gather that isn't what it means. Could anyone perhaps point me to a nice user-friendly guide to someone new to WinUAE, as it doesn't seem to have much in the way of documentation.

Dan Locke · Groupie Joined: 07 Sep 2009 Posts: 145

I didn't even know that WinUAE was supposed to be able to run them. I always extracted them and ran the ADF/DMS files.

Anthony Burns · Newcomer Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Age: 30 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Allegedly the latest version does, but if there is some sort of built-in decompression tool I have yet to find it. Unfortunately, my current unzipping program only extracts a series of nameless, useless files from lha archives. Is there any way to convert them into workable adf files?

HoraceAndTheSpider · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

you just mount the file as a hard-disk instead of an HDF afaik
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Anthony Burns · Newcomer Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Age: 30 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to recognise .lha as a valid hardfile type. Whatever it claims in the readme file, I'm beginning to suspect they forgot to implement this supposed update.

HoraceAndTheSpider · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Anthony Burns · Newcomer Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Age: 30 Posts: 4 Location: UK

Suddenly feeling very foolish, but glad to have found a workable solution ... Smile