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hmueck
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Sat May 01, 2021 11:44 am

aca0808 wrote:
Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:58 pm
how to set the script to get FULLSCREEN at game startup as it is now in WINDOWED mode
There are several ways of doing this. For example, there is a "Gamebase Amiga.uae" file in the folder. You can edit this file and change one line.
from:
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=false
to:
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=true

(Same for WHDLoad.uae).
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Sat May 01, 2021 11:54 am

arkive wrote:
Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:08 am
any chance you could upload this to some other place

I forgot about the 5GB limit...

The EAB file server Google drive is updated and you can download from there:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1azYJtc ... sp=sharing
aca0808
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Sat May 01, 2021 1:52 pm

hmueck wrote:
Sat May 01, 2021 11:44 am
aca0808 wrote:
Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:58 pm
how to set the script to get FULLSCREEN at game startup as it is now in WINDOWED mode
There are several ways of doing this. For example, there is a "Gamebase Amiga.uae" file in the folder. You can edit this file and change one line.
from:
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=false
to:
gfx_fullscreen_amiga=true

(Same for WHDLoad.uae).
Thanks man!!! 8) 8) 8)
Retrofox
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Tue May 11, 2021 11:51 am

Wow, nice to see the GB Amiga is still alive. thanks a lot!!! :D
hmueck wrote:
Sat Apr 24, 2021 6:09 am
Hi,

while working on completing my Gamebase Amiga collection, I've added several new screenshots and game files along the way.

Belgarath kindly allowed me to share my "version 2.3" with you. You can find it on the EAB FTP server and on mega.nz:
T3V6
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Thu Jul 08, 2021 6:14 pm

Great stuff, just installed this afternoon!

It´s really great to see it´s still evolving!
T3V6
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Fri Jul 09, 2021 7:46 am

Just out of interest I compared the sizes V2.3 vs 2.1
of games, extras, screenshots, and music.

I thought V2.3 might be a bit bigger, but (on my HDD) it is only 8GB vs 14GB in V2.1
And V2.3 has roughly 9000 files less.

I found my V2.1 Extras folder to be 9.6GB, the V2.3 version is just 5.7GB. Some Details:
I found the V2.1 WHDLoad folder to be 5.5GB instead 2.6GB in V2.3
I found the V2.1 SPS folder to be 3.2GB instead of 2.3 in V2.3
I found a folder Boxscans in V2.1 with 234MB, which does not exist in V2.3
Music in V2.3 is roughly 5MB smaller.

I found my V2.1 games folder to be 4.2GB, the V2.3 version is 2.6GB.
Example subfolders S/A/B each(!) have a difference of up to 200MB and 90 files

On the other hand,
The numbers in GB´s "Verify available files" do not confirm the differences.
V2.3 ca 19900,
V2.1 ca 19600
Is there so much unused stuff in old V2.1?!

Can you give some insides what was moved/deleted/zipped? I hope nothing went missing from 2.1 to 2.3 ?!
I am not saying something is wrong here, I am just surprised of the quite big difference. File size and file count. Re-zipping might be a reason?!

Many thanks!

Used the nice little "Treesize free" tool to compare folder structures and sizes
T3V6
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Fri Jul 09, 2021 8:00 am

More deep diving:
I found my V2.1 version of games/S
has a separate extra zip file for many (all?) multi-ADF games.

Example
While SpaceQuest4 has 6 ADFs in V2.3,
in my V2.1 it has 6 ADFs plus an extra zip with all 6 identical ADFs in it. So redundancy.
Don´t know if that is a leftover from the "dirty hand-made" 2.0 to 2.1 update.

My Boxscans folder in V2.1 seems to be an older version of current "Cover Scans".


I will have a look if the same issuea appear on the other strange file/size differences.
This calms me down a lot!
;-)

I start trusting the V2.3 more than my old V2.1
amypond1702
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Fri Apr 01, 2022 4:34 pm

Is it possible to download single parts like Screenshots, extras, etc.

I got no 8 gb free on my pc
KrazyKanuck
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Wed Jul 27, 2022 3:38 pm

Just noticed that there is still an awful lot of missing games in the database (without including homebrew games that came out after this DB was made), especially coverdisk games such as:

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/163595

and also a lot of the North American releases of games are also missing (I primarily mean games that are named differently in the US/Canada, not the same game released in NA under the same name) such as:

https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games/details/19618
Seiya
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Re: Gamebase Amiga 2.3

Sat Nov 12, 2022 10:43 pm

the problem is that these games lacking also in official tosec, unofficial tosec and de facto many of these games are lost forever.
Me too i searching these MIA games and other lacking ADF, but it is very hard to find something.

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