Run two instances of Minimig

[AmintaMister]

Hi!

I would like to run two instance of Minimig on my MISTer, one for Amiga with MegaAGS (I already have it) and one with the Shapeshifter configuration (I already have this config too, Shapeshifter auto run emulating a Macintosh Classic).

Now I have copied Minimig_20220108.rbf to MacClassic_20220108.rbf and changed accordingly the names in names.txt.

So far so good.

Now, what I would like to achieve is that Minimig_20220108.rbf can load at startup the MegaAGS.cfg and MacClassic_20220108.rbf the Shapeshifter.cfg.

Is it possible?

[darksakul]

You want to run both cores simultaneously?

[Flandango]

AmintaMister, unfortunately it's not possible.
Each core has a hard coded "Core" name so you can call the Minimig.rbf file anything you want but it will still load the Minimig configuration.

[AmintaMister]

AmintaMister, unfortunately it's not possible.
Each core has a hard coded "Core" name so you can call the Minimig.rbf file anything you want but it will still load the Minimig configuration.

Ok, thanks!

[AmintaMister]

You want to run both cores simultaneously?

Not, only launch each of them with a different configuration.

[limi]

Yeah, you can’t just rename the core, unfortunately.

The workaround I have used is to duplicate and rename the kickstart.rom file to something descriptive, since that becomes a “poor man’s” label in the Load Configuration part of the Minimig core.

E.g. in my setup, I have MegaAGS.rom, Amiga4000.rom and Shapeshifter.rom, and I have set them up with their respective configuration entries, so that it’s easy to see which one I select. Would of course be great it the core added support for labels on these configurations, but that’s what I’ve done for now.

[dec_alpha]

Yeah, you can’t just rename the core, unfortunately.

The workaround I have used is to duplicate and rename the kickstart.rom file to something descriptive, since that becomes a “poor man’s” label in the Load Configuration part of the Minimig core.

E.g. in my setup, I have MegaAGS.rom, Amiga4000.rom and Shapeshifter.rom, and I have set them up with their respective configuration entries, so that it’s easy to see which one I select. Would of course be great it the core added support for labels on these configurations, but that’s what I’ve done for now.

Thanks for this idea, will definitely help me to keep track of which config does what