How can I Alt-B boot from a specified directory in Altirra?

[Foebane]

I have my emulators stored in their own individual folders marked "(platform) Emulator" and all of their corresponding software in individual folders marked "(platform)" Software.

When I start up Altirra for the first time, the default path for launching files with Alt-B is always within the "A8 Emulator" folder (the Altirra home folder) but what I'd like to do is to have it start from within the root of the "A8 Software" folder instead. Is there a way to do that?

[Wrathchild]

If you are using a shortcut to launch Altirra then changing its "Start in" folder should suffice

[Rybags]

Mine remembers the directory (2.70) - I think at an earlier stage it only remembered one directory which it went back to for disk, Rom, boot but now it seems to memorize each seperately.

 

So all you need to do is once do the crawl work to get where you want, load something from there and it should default back there the next time.

[Foebane]

Mine remembers the directory (2.70) - I think at an earlier stage it only remembered one directory which it went back to for disk, Rom, boot but now it seems to memorize each seperately.

The way I have my emulators set up, I have batch files that can erase the Emulator or Software folders and re-unzip them from a ZIP source that I put together, basically "resetting" them to defaults. What I would really like is for the default to be what I wish, rather than the home folder for the emulator.

 

I'm away from home at the moment, but could Wrathchild's shortcut idea work in this case?

[Foebane]

I tried the Shortcut idea and it sort of worked, but I had to devise a workaround to pin the shortcut to the taskbar, as all my emulators are accessed through the taskbar and otherwise parameters aren't allowed.

 

In the end I simply experimented with the file selector in Altirra and discovered that just typing in "..\" was enough to bring me out of "A8 Emulator" and allow me to access "A8 Software", since they're on the same level hierarchically. So that's that sorted!

[_The Doctor__]

glad you found the work around but ugh it should just be part of the install...maybe it's already there but perhaps and advanced button allowing this sort of thing...