DemoBaseST v1.21 now online!

Postby **SkylineDave** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:28 pm

After months of searching for someone to host the files, Megar has very kindly offered to help out. So now, finally, you can download the whole of DBST so far!

http://dbst2.mysite.orange.co.uk/index.htm

Keep an eye out for more screens to come!

Marakatti · Postby **Marakatti** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:08 pm

Brilliant news! Keep up the good work

RetroGamerUK · Postby **RetroGamerUK** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:11 pm

I say!

That's a damned good thing old boy :wink:

Just out of curiosity, does it require normal demo disk images or have the demos been ripped like some of the games in GBST??

Postby **SkylineDave** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:43 pm

RetroGamerUK wrote:I say!
That's a damned good thing old boy
Just out of curiosity, does it require normal demo disk images or have the demos been ripped like some of the games in GBST??

no doesnt require the disk images at all - they are all memory snapshots.

RetroGamerUK · Postby **RetroGamerUK** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:45 pm

A cunning plan indeed my good man

, and is the emulator integral to the frontend or does one require an external emulator, and if so, does it need to be a specific version?

Postby **SkylineDave** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:57 pm

RetroGamerUK wrote:A cunning plan indeed my good man , and is the emulator integral to the frontend or does one require an external emulator, and if so, does it need to be a specific version?

lol its all in the readme file RG - requires STeem but its only been tested with v3.2

aktiv8 · Postby **aktiv8** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:40 pm

Lovely work...

Glad to see this is hosted at last - congrats to all involved

christos · Postby **christos** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:05 pm

I agree, it' s great that Demobase is hosted and thanks to megar and you, but how do you install it?

Postby **SkylineDave** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:40 pm

christos wrote:I agree, it' s great that Demobase is hosted and thanks to megar and you, but how do you install it?

sorry ive not been very forthright with documentation! :oops:

it doesnt need installing as such. you just need to unzip the three zip files you downloaded into a directory of your choice - probably something like DBST. then double-click on the .EXE file. like I say in the readme file, some PC's wont have a certain .DLL installed but I'll be looking into that shortly. let me know how you get on.

EDIT: ive updated the readme.txt file on the website so it's a little more helpful!

christos · Postby **christos** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:58 pm

I figured it would be like that! I get an error whenever I try to run a demo.. Maybe STEEM hasn't been installed properly. I' ll look into it. Thanks

Postby **SkylineDave** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:33 pm

christos wrote:I figured it would be like that! I get an error whenever I try to run a demo.. Maybe STEEM hasn't been installed properly. I' ll look into it. Thanks

try changing the text box in the bottom-left of the frontend - it should be pointing to your STeem directory. i know its a little basic for the time being. :oops:

christos · Postby **christos** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:18 pm

OK, I know what the problem is. Firstly, I couldn't find the steem directory setting because you' ve kind of hardcoded it for a resolution higher than mine (1024x768). Secondly it's looking for the demos in a predetermined path. C:\Games\GameBaseST\DemoBaseST\screens\
Thank you for your support.

Postby **SkylineDave** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:24 pm

christos wrote:OK, I know what the problem is. Firstly, I couldn't find the steem directory setting because you' ve kind of hardcoded it for a resolution higher than mine (1024x768). Secondly it's looking for the demos in a predetermined path. C:\Games\GameBaseST\DemoBaseST\screens\
Thank you for your support.

ok hope youve got it working now. in the next release of DBST i'll try to make the window resizable

Postby **SkylineDave** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:58 am

i took DBST to a friend of mine's yesterday and installed it on his machine. it was only then that a couple of problems appeared concerning paths and TOS - this is the first time ive tested DBST on someone else's machine and so it looks like ive got a little bit of bug fixing to do.
i'll post up with progress made :roll:

Postby **SkylineDave** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:27 pm

well as soon as it went up it came down again.

i need to figure out how to edit certain bytes of a memory snapshot before i can make DBST available again. it turns out that the exact TOS that was used (i.e. the directory on my own PC) is embedded in the memory snapshot and needs to be edited on-the-fly by my front-end. i'm just waiting for a STeem author to reply to a question of mine.
this should only be a minor delay. but to tease you further i shall be releasing everything done so far - including the latest version of the front-end and version 1.51 of the archive

Postby **SkylineDave** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:43 am

well there's some good news - it half-works. as long as your TOS path name is less than 35 characters long then it should be fine! this will suit most people's PCs im sure:

eg.
c:\games\atari st\steem\tos\ <-28 chars

i'll keep looking into how to cope with any path name, but i wont waste too much time over it. i'd rather spend the time adding more screens

speaking of which...

YouTube · Postby **Zorro 2** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:32 pm

Hello mister SkylineDave,

It's a good idea !

But I want to use your windows prog, where I can download it ?

Postby **SkylineDave** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:49 pm

Zorro 2 wrote:Hello mister SkylineDave,

It's a good idea !

But I want to use your windows prog, where I can download it ?

its just being finalised to be PC-independant and it will be downloadable from the DBST web site shortly.

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