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PRG STARTER
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Using the VICE emulator? Ever got
lost in the jungle of PRG files?
Well, here is a little helper for
you!
http://user.tninet.se/{$de}jad615g/prgsta
rter/
I wished hard enough and someone
somewhere in the murk depths of
programming answered my wish. He
then took my wish enhanced it way
beyond my expectations and released
a piece of software he named the
software PRG STARTER. The software
was so good and easy to use it made
me wonder why I hadn't wished for it
before; or was it that I wasn't
wishing in the right places or
wishing for the right things to
appear. So what am I wishing for and
what does it do.
This software is for emulator users;
specifically (at this time) users of
the Vice Emulator package
http://www.viceteam.org/ What the
software does is to analyse a
Commodore file; be that a PRG or a
D64 tape etc and start the relevant
executable of Vice for that
particular piece of software. (its
like magic has occurred)
So why it this useful.
Well here is one scenario:
Suppose you have some d64 images but
don't know what machine they are
for, they were filed away in the pit
that is "your Computer disk"
downloaded because they were deemed
useful but have long been forgotten,
were they for the VIC, the Commodore
64 or the plus4/16?
So do you
1. Load each one into each version of
the emulator and hope it will run?
Time consuming
2. Forget about them and delete them
then download them all over again?
3. Run this piece of software and
wonder how you managed before.
Maybe before this software appeared
you would have thought about options
1 and 2. Now it just option 3.
Here is what the website says
Do you recognize this:
"Wait, was this PRG file for the C64
or Vic-20? Or was it for the
unexpanded Vic-20 or for one with 8K
or was it a cartridge file"?
Imagine just double clicking a PRG,
D64 or P00 file, and the file will
be loaded into the correct emulator
and with the correct settings. This
is exactly what PRG Starter does! It
makes VICE so easy to use that even
you mother could do it! ;-)
How does it work
The software analyses each file and
starts the relevant configuration
and emulator executable,
Installation
Go to here
http://user.tninet.se/{$de}jad615g/prgsta
rter/ and download the EXE file, the
software needs the .NET framework
installed this is a free download
from Microsoft available from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de
tails.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ab
99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7
Save the EXE form PRG starter on you
machine where you wish to run it
from, I saved this with my vice
emulator on my c:\ in a folder
called commodore files drive
Click SETUP and find the VICE
executable, ANY will do I selected
C64
Then you are prompted to select file
to associate with the application
Ok that's it close the App and
you're ready to go
Double clicking now on any of the
assigned file types starts PRG
starter
And runs VICE emulator
Something wrong
If something doesn't look right and
the software doesn't detect the file
or you want to alter something
clicking on CHANGE gives a new
option where you can configure some
of the settings
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