Installing and running classic software made really easy

Many months ago, during a public discussion on an Amiga forum, I had an idea to tackle the problem of getting classic software to run easily and efficiently on AmigaOS 4 through UAE, without requiring the user to be an Amiga hardware and emulation expert. Such idea consisted in per-application installers that would only ask the user a few simple questions and then install the software in such a way that it would run efficiently (or even optimally).
Both to verify the interest of the community and to get a little reward for the effort, I produced some installers and asked for 1 Euro for each of them. Except for a couple of very generous donations from two kind fellow Amigans, the project has been a total failure. Therefore, I have now decided to close the project and to make the existing installers freely available to everybody.

As a quick visual introduction, have a look at this video, that shows Superfrog being installed from scratch and then launched.

You can find detailed information and the installers in the HELPERS page on glUAE's website.

Enjoy!

@saimo

sad to hear that many Amigans don't know of glUAE still

I hope you don't get discouraged on updating glUAE as many of us greatly appreciate all the work you do for OS4.x

@328gts

Absolutely ditto.

@ 328gts & acefnq

Thanks a lot friends

Just for clarity, only the helpers project has been closed: glUAE will be updated if new ideas come or some bug pops up.

@saimo

I can't see your video. Download is always 2MB (tried twice) and I can't play it.

What about uploading it on Youtube?

@Elwood

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The precise size is 2307962 bytes. IIRC, the encoding is DivX in an AVI container (I recorded it with SRec). I can play it without problems with MPlayer.

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Maybe I'll do that when/if have better and bigger videos to show.
In the meanwhile, let me give you a suggestion: forget about the videos and try any helper directly - it takes much less, it doesn't do any harm to your system and you can see how the thing works for real

@saimo

Ok so the download worked.
It's just that I can't play it with Mediaplayer Classic. It may be a protection against Windows

@Elwood

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After all, something like glUAE is not a treat for Windows

@Elwood

I hope you will not mind I did it.

Many thanks and I hope glUAE will become official part of the OS.

@vox

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Uh?

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Thanks for the good wish (), but, honestly, I don't think it's ever going to happen. Actually, since the initial release (2006) a few others wished the same and, at some point, I was even asked the permission to include it in a contributions directory, but, eventually, nothing came out of it (IIRC not even a contributions directory was included at all in the following releases of the OS).

@saimo

Sorry my bad, forgot the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuA0QZNI6PQ&feature=autofb

@saimo

Hope contribution folder will be back!
Here we have build up a nice wish list,

http://www.amigans.net/modules/newbb/ ... t_id=58261#forumpost58261

now I will add "bring the contribs bacK"

@vox

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Ah, nice! Thank you!

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I'm not sure there's ever been a contributions directory on any AOS 4.x CD, but surely having one in future wouldn't hurt

@all

I just wanted to inform you that the helper for Kick Off 2 CV, previously not available because the URL I had was no longer valid, can now be downloaded. Many thanks to lolafg who, on EAB, gave me the new URL.