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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon FrodeSolheim

Support for .rp9 files?

Open FrodeSolheim opened this issue 10 years ago • 5 comments

There hasn't been a major call for support of .rp9 files, but a couple of people have requested it.

Most likely, an implementation wouldn't be done in FS-UAE, but rather in FS-UAE Launcher - and an initial implementation could be relatively simple (read-only, possibly not support all features of the .rp9 files).

The launcher could index .rp9 files and add them to the configuration list, and also extract publisher / year / images from the .rp9 files for display in the launcher.

FrodeSolheim avatar Mar 16 '14 10:03 FrodeSolheim

The Amiga Forever package/installer/disc includes them. Opening one via TextWrangler revealed it to be a compressed file (most likely zip) with disk images, an xml file, a png preview image, and a text file that describes it.

MaddTheSane avatar Apr 18 '15 05:04 MaddTheSane

@MaddTheSane Yes, I know, the RP9 format is documented here: http://www.retroplatform.com/reference/ :) (It is a zip file as you suspect it is)

FrodeSolheim avatar Apr 19 '15 08:04 FrodeSolheim

I definitely support this idea - I am used to complicated software and even I found FS-UAE to be user-hostile when trying to set it up and support it. RP9s don't just contain the disks together they also have a configuration file and metadata (images etc) all in one, and is a format suggested by the w3c for containing archives such as this. If support for this is not planned, surely there must be SOME plans for a file container format, grouping disks and configuration? I mean it's kind of ridiculous to assume every single user will go through and load disks one by one every time...? That exact tediousness has kept me from using and enjoying UAE over the years, a community I'd otherwise be so happy to support.

monomadic avatar Feb 29 '16 07:02 monomadic

I was wondering if this might still happen. It'd be really cool to have an easy way to install / run these files :)

wyan avatar Apr 03 '19 15:04 wyan

It seems that some RP9 files are working. But many are not. I guess it depends on what is inside ? I managed to play some of the demos in the AmigaForever distribution, but many games fail to load. If the RP9 files contains ADF files it seems to work. If it contains HDF files it does not.

dnouls avatar Jan 08 '22 15:01 dnouls