Frodo Problem?

[trfillos]

Hello to all,

I have just emailed the author of the GP32 port of Frodo. The mail follows...

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Hello Mike,

I have recently bought a GP32 just to revive my old C64. Thank you
very much for your frodo effort. I would like to ask for your
help/opinion about it. I have a SM 128MB card filled only with frodo
and my old c64 games. My problem is that when I try to attach a file
(d64 or t64) it takes me A LOT of time to create the game list.
Actually I have never seen that list because after about 20 minutes I
have bored and turn it off.

It looks like the problem is with the number of games that they reside
on the card (about 700) because when I had only a few it was working
fine.

Is there a possibility to create a file with the game list and not
doing that every time on-the-fly? It does not bother me too much to
wait for (even) a couple of hours to create this file list for the
first time (or when I change the games), but it does bother me to wait
that long each time I want to play a c64 game. As it is now, it is
practically unusable!

Thank you very much for your time.

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Does anybody knows a solution maybe?

thanks!

 

[ratx]

Put your games into directories?

 

[Captainbubby]

I'd be interested to see if he replies, I thought Frodo was a dead project (ie. no longer being updated)

I would LOVE to proven wrong

 

[trfillos]

No, the game files are not compressed or in directories. I have just put them (as is) in the GPMM/C64 dir.

 

[ratx]

Yes put them in directories, the problem is reading a large directory full of files. It improves performance no end... eg put all A games in a folder begining with A etc

 

[njchris]

Yes put them in directories, the problem is reading a large directory full of files. It improves performance no end... eg put all A games in a folder begining with A etc

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I had to do this with GPEngine as it took a long time to read one directory full of roms. After I broke it up, it was much faster to read the rom list.

 

[frolik]

Do what ratx says, I have a full 128Mb smc and it works fine, I've categorized the games and you have a small delay changing folder but not much.

Please don't start rumours about apps being "dead projects" Mike does little updates now and again even though he's not active on the scene like others. I've emailed him before and he usually replies but what usually prompts him to update frodo is when the original source gets a substantial update - like the savestates.

I will gladly help out with any Frodo issues that you have if you need it.

frolik

 

[Quiest]

Yes put them in directories, the problem is reading a large directory full of files. It improves performance no end... eg put all A games in a folder begining with A etc

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Yep, simple solution. That would have been the first thing I tried...

 

[Captainbubby]

Please don't start rumours about apps being "dead projects"

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Apologies, this is one of my favourite emulators and I certainly am glad Mike is still involved in this

 

[trfillos]

Thanks guys, I will try to split my games into dirs..

 

[x68000]

just want to confirm that this has sorted it for me once the dir's were in place

 

[frolik]

Our fee for this piece of assistance is to reach level 3 of Armalyte.... :lol:

 

[BaDToaD]

Our fee for this piece of assistance is to reach level 3 of Armalyte.... :lol:

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OMG How much!!!