Game configuration - The Settlers

The Settlers by BlueByte is a mouse-driven game. If you are using an Apple Mighty Mouse, then you won't be able to do the "special click" with it. Special click is left and right mouse buttons at the same time which, due to the way the Mighty Mouse is designed, isn't possible with the hardware.

Frode Solheim assisted me on the FS-UAE User Manual by providing the following solution - mapping an unused key as the right mouse button. This allows you to press the actual left mouse button on the Mighty Mouse and an assigned key simultaneously on the keyboard to simulate the special click.
This is done by setting the following option in the configuration file:

keyboard_key_tab = action_joy_0_2nd_button

Note that this is global, so if you require the tab key to be usable in other applications or games, comment the line out before starting FS-UAE.

My thanks go out to Frode for his help with this - it served to allow be to play the game properly before my replacement Logitech M500 mouse arrived.


By the way, for an older game, The Settlers works very well with a well-specced emulated Amiga. Mine is defaulted to an A4000/040 with a lot of fast RAM, and the game happily uses this for additional effects.

Inserting disks

I had thought that by setting the floppies_dir I'd be able to pick up .adfs in the floppy folder via the in-built menu system (accessed via F12). This doesn't seem to be the case however. Instead, I had to do the following:

floppy_drive_0 =
floppy_image_0 = /Users/amipal/Documents/FS-UAE/Floppies/the_settlers-3.adf
floppy_image_1 = /Users/amipal/Documents/FS-UAE/Floppies/the_settlers-2.adf
floppy_image_2 = /Users/amipal/Documents/FS-UAE/Floppies/the_settlers-1.adf

This means that you start with no disk in DF0 (the main floppy drive in a real Amiga). In order to insert disks into DF0, you go to the menu using the keyboard shortcut F12. Then using the cursor keys, you tab down to "Removable Media" and "DF0: empty". Press return, which gives me the list of disks shown above.

This is how I was able to install The Settlers onto my emulated Amiga's "Games" hard disk. When the installer asks for the next disk, go to the menu and select the next one - the original disk is ejected.

Of course, I now have to work out how to get The Settlers' "special click" working with my Mac's Mighty Mouse. The "special click" is left and right mouse buttons at the same time, something which the not-so-Mighty Mouse doesn't appear to be able to do...