Demo viewer using Pouet.net's metadata
Consider this "MAME for demos"
Developed on Ubuntu 17.10, other platforms may work.
- Browse and search demos using pouet.net's database
- Select a demo, it will be downloaded and set up
- Easily run the demo natively or using emulator or wine
- Support at least linux, windows .exe (wine), Amiga (UAE), C64 (Vice) demos
- Smart autodetection as far as possible
- Support per-demo metadata to define how it should be run if autodetection fails
- Python script that can download & run demos
- Supported platforms: windows .exe, Amiga (.adf, .dms, .lha), C64 (.prg, .d64)
- GUI frontend
- Install the debian package (available in github releases page)
- Launch showet from menu
- Search for a production and click run to run it
- Alt-F4 quits from emulators
For Amiga demos you'll need kickstart rom files. See http://fs-uae.net/docs/kickstarts on how to obtain and install those.
Setup fs-uae default settings to your liking - it'll be used as base for launching amiga demos.
Vice shipped with Ubuntu doesn't contain kernal files due to copyright reasons.
- Go to http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/index.html#download and download the source tarball.
- Create directory ~/.vice
- Copy everything from tarball's data/ directory to ~/.vice
You can configure vice / x64 any way you want. Showet starts it with -fullscreen by default
Use Alt-N to cycle disk sides for multi-disk demos.
- Proof of concept
- Windows support
- Amiga support
- C64 support
- DOS support
- Linux support
- GUI
- unzip decompress
- LhA decompress
- Design metadata format to fix non-working demos
- Disk change support (C64/Amiga)
- debian packaging
- Whitelist & blacklist of known working & broken demos
Pull requests welcome.
You can use the command line tool to quickly test running any demos.
Windows: MFX's Deities (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=24487)
./showet.py 24487
Amiga/dms Origin by Complex (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=3741)
./showet.py 3741
Amiga/lha Tint by TBL (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=701)
./showet.py 701
C64/.d64 Comaland by Censor Design & Oxyron (http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=64283)
./showet.py 64283
To build debian package, run:
debuild -us -uc -b
Install the package to get dependencies.
Code: Ville Ranki Logo & Icon: Manu / Fit