Sofarun 4.0

Nice

Thanks Ro fo creating the headline!

I have exactly the same feeling after having played with the 80 columns mode for a while... It's fine when you have a ZIP file with very long file names (for example using the TOSEC naming convention, with different patch / hack tags), but the 40 columns characters are looking better to me (better proportions, square pixels). Matter of taste of course

Does Sofarun 4.0 work on a MSX1 without a mapper?

Great! Thank you @Louthrax.

Hi all,

I've just updated SofaRun to version 4.1. This version adds support for multiple commands per file-extension. Thanks to GDX for reminding me that feature, that was not too hard to code and I had some free time this week-end

So in the SR.INI file, you can now have several lines for the same extension. The name that appears in the SofaRun's menu can be specified by adding it after a ';' character after the command itself:

BAT=%c %f
BAT=%sAKID.COM %f;Edit

If no ';' character is specified, the command shown in the menu will be "Start" by default.

Resulting menu with the above SR.INI for .BAT file is:

This is also working for files embedded inside ZIP files, but if you edit them, the ZIP file won't be updated (waiting for Grauw to code an MSX zipper ;)).

Warning: you'd better update your SR.INI file with the new one provided in the SofaRun's ZIP package. Behavior using SofaRun 4.1 with old SR.INI file is not guaranteed.

The number of built-in command has also been reduced to 4 (as some previous internal associations can be handled by this new mechanism):

####################################################################
[EXTS]
####################################################################

# *1: internal ROM (ROM image) handling
# *2: internal CAS (tape image) handling
# *3: internal DSK (disk image) handling
# *4: internal ZIP (zipped file) handling

# %s: SofaRun directory path (e.g. A:\SOFARUN\)
# %f: Selected file path (e.g. MYGAME.ROM)
# %c: COMMAND2.COM path (e.g. A:\COMMAND2.COM) 

ROM=*1
CAS=*2
DSK=*3
ZIP=*4

BAT=%c %f
BAT=%sAKID.COM %f;Edit

BAS=%c BASIC %f
LDR=%c BASIC %f
COM=%f
MIG=%sMIGVIEW.COM %f;View
VGM=%sVGMPLAY.COM %f;Play
TXT=%sAKID.COM %f;Edit
INI=%sAKID.COM %f;Edit
SG=A:\BIN\SG2MSX.COM %f
AD4=%sADAM.COM %f
AD5=%sADAM.COM %f
AD8=%sADAM.COM %f

#MID=A:\DEVICES\TADAMIDI\SZMMP.COM /U1 %f
#MID=A:\DEVICES\MIDIPAC\MIDIPLAY.COM %f

This version also fixes a bug in browsing directories in 80 columns mode (going from left to right was offset).

As usual, let me know if you find some bugs.

Hi GDX, thanks for the report!

Quick question about text editing: can you try to launch the same "AKID" command from command line and see if it works ? I've experienced some trouble with AKID, maybe it's only that. You can see the command that SofaRun uses by enabling the "Show command line" (or something like that) in the global SofaRun settings.

Good ! Can you please send me your 1.02 version ?

And going to debug the other problems you mentionned right now.

Trying to reproduce the problem here but with no success. Can you send me your SR.INI file (with the changes that are causing the problems) ?

Ah, ok, the menu is displayed correctly but the game is not launched correctly... Current fixing...

Thanks GDX, this version was impossible to find on the net.
A new version of SofaRun is avalaible for download. Just be sure to use internal tools only with values *1 to *4 (values above 4 have been removed, check explanations in previous posts).

Could you upload the file again? I first downloaded it from my iPad, but it was saved only as HTML stuff in a .ZIP. I tried again later on my PC but I got message "Ce fichier n'existe plus".

Thanks GDX, that works !

There was a last minute bug in the version I uploade yesterday (late, tired...). All internal tools were disabled. Re-download and let me know if it works.