Amiberry LHA support
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Good evening
Amiberry’s development branch has just had a new file support added, LHA. This is commonly used as a single file solution to packaged WHDLoad games, as this format is able to accommodate certain constraints of the Amiga filesystem within a contained archive. (Eg. Issues with certain filenames etc)
The support is fairly simple. Just by adding -autowhdload=gamefile.lha on the command line.
For RetroPie to fully take advantage of this (and it was designed with RetroPie in mind) I’d like to suggest that the es_systems.cfg has .lha as a supported Amiga filetype and that the following be added to the Amiberry launch script on line 13 (right after the .uae file support)
[code][elif [[ "$rom" == *.lha ]]; then
"$emulator" -autowhdload="$rom" -G]) [/code]Details on how the system is able to have game-specific settings, without using individual Config files, is provided on the Amiberry Wiki Page , and you can expect a large number of game-specifics to be added very soon.
I appreciate that the devs here might want to wait until this change reaches the master branch, but I anticipate that will be quite soon anyway.
Thanks, and hope you all enjoy the new features
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@horaceandspider please do go ahead and open this on a ticket on the issue tracker (or open a PR with the changes). Thanks.
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thanks @BuZz
Apologies that i have had a bit of a nightmare and am not familiar enough with the layout of RP to submit the changes myself!
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@horaceandspider no worries. thanks for the submission.
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