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Post by vic2020ian on Mar 5, 2021 12:48:21 GMT
Lol - many thanks. No rush.
There are still games to add for Vic20 not in Gamebase but at 2000ish it is not such a large task as C64.
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 5, 2021 13:48:07 GMT
I guess the C64 Die hards will want to have ALL games imported 
Even the very simple games will have sentimental value for a lot of people, By example Dr Psi , i'ts a very basic game but i had quite a laugh with it back in the day.(i think 1985 it was).
Well....it will be a nice challenge to get the whole collection in.
But my first computer was the Vic20, so i'm looking forward to see all Vic20 games in the Game Manager. |
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 5, 2021 20:41:28 GMT
Maybe it's almost time to release DemobaseVic20 V3 
It's done in Gamebase so that offers opportunity ....
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Post by spannernick on Mar 7, 2021 11:28:21 GMT
PCU Game Manager has PCU included now and has its own Windows Installer now, the full version, made with Advanced Installer.
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Post by spannernick on Mar 7, 2021 14:53:59 GMT
In the root of what... USB Stick, no you need to put your drive letter in for your USB Stick, PCU Game Manager gets installed to C:\Game now and has a Windows Start Menu shortcut so run the install from your Download folder.
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Post by spannernick on Mar 7, 2021 15:41:36 GMT
oh right I am sorting that out now, you will only see one file now, a exe file.
It took me 2 days to work out how Advance Installer works, I have used before but a long time a ago, like 10 years ago, I had to make 3 installs, 1. Project Carousel USB - AIO- PCUGM that installs PCU Game Manager, 2. Project Carousel USB - AIO- PCU for USB Stick inside PCU-AIO that starts after PCU Game Manager installs and installs PCU to a USB Stick and 3, Project Carousel USB - Standalone for USB.
Project Carousel USB - AIO- PCU for USB has no games included, Project Carousel USB - Standalone version does include the games.
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 12, 2021 22:12:08 GMT
This is crazy...  Im almost finished with the gamebase import function, just need to test it a little more. Importing all games from gb64 took a while (about 45 minutes on my machine). There will be a release in a couple of days I think.  |
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 13, 2021 10:12:57 GMT
Wow, looks very nice Lantz
I'm curious how big this will be ......
How did you manage when games have no file but only an extra in GB (tap for example)?
Or when a game has a prg file and a tap or cart file ?
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Post by oocozyoo on Mar 13, 2021 11:11:04 GMT
LOL how are we going to add all those games to project carousel .....
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Post by spannernick on Mar 13, 2021 11:19:32 GMT
I guess you don't not have to, just add the games you want and lot are doubles anyway, You don't need every game on it, PCU Game Manager is there to store them when you want to add a game to PCU, that was the whole idea of PCU Game Manager, that what I wanted, a place where you can store games in a database and add them to PCU when I wanted too .. so if I don't want a game no more on PCU, I would just swap it with another game using PCU Game Manager, I only use the games that are in PCU anyway, most of the games there I have on cassette. I like alot of US Gold and Ocean games.. You can only add 255 games per screen anyway. BTW thanks.. Lantzelot for all the hard work your doing.. |
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Post by vic2020ian on Mar 13, 2021 13:28:11 GMT
Yes Nick but you already prepared us for the capability with the flexible folders.
If you name them e.g.
C64_a1
C64_a2
C64_a3
C64_b1
C64_b2
Vic20_a1
Vic20_a2
etc.
then you can have unlimited capacity for all 10,000 plus C64 and all 2000 plus Vic20 games on PCU in an easy access system.
Many Many Thanks for a modern TheVic20 with Gamebase capability.
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 13, 2021 14:37:05 GMT
hi when i add a game to favorites then get disappears whatever I do it disappears It’s added, but it’s not marked as a favorite. If you switch to ”all games” you will find it. Then you can mark it as a favorite with CTRL+F12. The view is reloaded when you save a new game to sort it properly, but if the game isn’t part of the view it dissappears. I can add so that the game is marked as favorite if you have that view selected. Edit: I fixed so that the game is marked as favorite directly when you save it when you are in the favorites view. Will be part of the 1.5.0 release. |
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 13, 2021 14:40:25 GMT
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 13, 2021 17:21:29 GMT
Size of the PCUGameManager folder with gamebase 64 and gamebase vic-20 imported (includes JRE and Vice folders):  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2021 18:22:31 GMT
when we can we download this ?
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 13, 2021 20:41:19 GMT
Thanx for the information Lantz |
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 15, 2021 9:38:34 GMT
when we can we download this ? Sorting out a few issues I found, then I will release a 1.5.0 version of PCU Game Manager. |
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Post by oocozyoo on Mar 15, 2021 22:01:52 GMT
is there a way to add two disk versions to PCU Game Manager ? Have a look over on csdb.dk to see if anyone has made a crt file from multi files, there is a search option, I`ve found a few like Bad Blood ect.... |
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 15, 2021 22:21:45 GMT
PCU Game Manager 1.5.0 is released now: 1.5.0- Manadatory fields for a game is now title, game file and one screenshot. Previously you also had to add a cover and two screenshots before saving the game.
- Two new "missing" cover files are used for missing covers, one for C64 and one for Vic-20 games.
- Support for multiple game entries with the same title. Covers, screens and game files get's a number suffix to avoid name collisions.
- New option to add a duplicate game entry when the title matches an existing game in the database during import.
- New menu option to reload current game view (shortcut: F5). Usefult if you want to sort the game list after adding a game.
- New import feature to import games from gamebase 64 or gamebase vic-20. More information is available in the wiki dokumentation.
Game view improvements: - Gamefile field is added to the filters when creating a game view to be able to filter on disk, tape or cartridge games.
- All description fields are added to the filters and the operators "is empty" and "is not empty" to be able to filter out games with missing descriptions.
- New UI field for a game: View tag. The view filter also contains this field. This can be used to create a custom view with games that does not match on the other fields. For example: GB64 contains over 1100 boulderdash clones. Some of them uses custom graphics. If you want to create a view with boulderdash games but only the ones using original graphics you can add a custom tag to the View tag field (e.g. boulder-og) for the ones you want and then create a view filter that only include the games with this tag available.
I have tested the gamebase import function with both Gamebase64 and gamebase Vic-20. If you find any bugs or problems post here. |
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 16, 2021 9:28:27 GMT
A lot of games have an error and are not imported(Vic20)..... what is the location of the log file ?
I have tried to import all from the Vic20 Gamebase, now i have 1395 games (list).(i first deleted all games in GameManager)
First thing i see is that the Ram Expansions are not selected in GameManager.
Missing screenshots and covers in Gamemanager .
Missing Gorf ? 
Here is the Log file:
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 16, 2021 10:37:49 GMT
A lot of games have an error and are not imported(Vic20)..... what is the location of the log file ?
I have tried to import all from the Vic20 Gamebase, now i have 1395 games (list).(i first deleted all games in GameManager)
First thing i see is that the Ram Expansions are not selected in GameManager.
Missing screenshots and covers in Gamemanager .
Missing Gorf ?
Here is the Log file:
Ok, that looks no good... There is another log file in the game manager directory (pcusb.log). Can you attach that also? it contains more information about why it can't read some files. Can you also attach the file "Paths.ini" from the folder where the gamebase vic-20 is installed? |
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 16, 2021 10:52:29 GMT
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 16, 2021 13:14:28 GMT
Ok, I know what the problem is. I was a bit lazy and assumed that games, screenshots and extras are located in the same folder, as subfolders. But in your case you have an extra subfolder (D:\GameBase\Vic20_v03\Screenshots\Screenshots). I can fix so that it read all paths from Path.ini and uses those when copying files properly, then it does not matter how you have organized the gamebase folders. When it comes to memory expansion for Vic-20: Where is this information available in gamebase vic-20? I can't open the mdb file in Access 365, it says it's too old, so it's a bit had to figure out how things are stored... is it only flags on the file name that controls the memory expansion? |
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 16, 2021 16:38:28 GMT
I have made a screenshot....
Game Type and/or (press F2) for key=value
I have no clue how 2 open the mdb(database file).... 
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Post by oocozyoo on Mar 16, 2021 19:50:08 GMT
Silly Question but where do i find the Vic20 mdb file, ive looked on gamebase64 but with no luck?
edit; ive downloaded it but stills says misising paths.ini file missing?
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Post by vic2020ian on Mar 16, 2021 21:13:15 GMT
If you want Vic20 Gamebase or others go to bu22.com
To use gamebase you need to install game base and then unzip the Vic20 gamebase in the installed folder.
Now unzip the screenshots, extras, games into a location you choose.
Run gamebase - it will complain and run the toolbox
Setup the paths to the screenshots, games and extras
It will run after converting the database.
If you wait a few days I will have the Vic20 configured and share the database.
I ran the import and have 2247 games imported. Working through the memory configuration etc.
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Post by oocozyoo on Mar 16, 2021 21:30:13 GMT
If you want Vic20 Gamebase or others go to bu22.com To use gamebase you need to install game base and then unzip the Vic20 gamebase in the installed folder. Now unzip the screenshots, extras, games into a location you choose. Run gamebase - it will complain and run the toolbox Setup the paths to the screenshots, games and extras It will run after converting the database. If you wait a few days I will have the Vic20 configured and share the database. I ran the import and have 2247 games imported. Working through the memory configuration etc. I think ill wait then, thanks |
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Post by vic2020ian on Mar 16, 2021 21:33:28 GMT
Lantzelot, many thanks for 1.5.0 this is fantastic.
I have 2247 imported I think and a few hundred failed.
Feature request 1 - could we put a dummy game in for items with no entry?
e.g.
10 PRINT "Your game is missing"
This is picked up every time a game is missing. This way all entries would import I think. (I saw an error "game mssing")
Feature request 2 - Please can you add fields for the extras? These are useful for instructions etc.
I know it is only useful in the Game Manager and not the Carousel but it would be great to have Game Manager as a single source companion.
I am working through getting games configured and running in Vice now.
Many Many thanks to you and Nick for making The Vic20 into The Complete Vic20
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Post by lantzelot on Mar 16, 2021 22:44:34 GMT
New release available with some fixes for the gamebase importer: 1.5.1- Paths.ini is read properly and paths for screenshots, extras and games are correct when copying files. Previously it assumed all folders for screenshots, covers and games where in the same parent folder.
- Fixed a bug when importing from GB64 where "vtde=yes" did not set true drive emulation correctly.
- Fixed a bug where game files where overwritten during import for games with very similar names (but not identical, e.g. "Last Ninja, The" and "Last Ninja , The")
- Memory banks for Vic-20 are set when importing games (a best effort is made, does not work 100%). Key-value pairs are read from the gb database and added to the description field so that all info for memory expansion is available.
- Games that are not zipped in gamebase are imported properly now, previously they was ignored.
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Post by sjakie43 on Mar 16, 2021 22:54:17 GMT
Thank you Lantz, i will check it out tomorrow |
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