taddrom.1 - addrom - Simple tool for adding a rom entry to a Pandora's Box 3 list.dat
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1 .Dd 2015-11-09
2 .Dt ADDROM 1
3 .Sh NAME
4 .Nm addrom
5 .Nd add a rom entry to a Pandora's Box 3 list.dat file
6 .Sh SYNOPSIS
7 .Bk -words
8 .Nm
9 .Op Fl c Ar title
10 .Op Fl e Ar title
11 .Fl i Ar file
12 .Op Fl n Ar position
13 .Op Fl o Ar file
14 .Fl r Ar name
15 .Nm
16 .Op Fl c Ar title
17 .Op Fl e Ar title
18 .Op Fl i Ar file
19 .Op Fl n Ar position
20 .Fl o Ar file
21 .Fl r Ar name
22 .Ek
23 .Sh DESCRIPTION
24 .Nm
25 reads a PB3 game list from an input
26 .Ar file
27 or starts one from scratch, adds an entry composed of a Chinese
28 .Ar title
29 an English
30 .Ar title
31 and a rom
32 .Ar name
33 at the given
34 .Ar position ,
35 and writes the resulting list to the output
36 .Ar file
37 or the input
38 .Ar file .
39 .br
40 It automatically adapts the number of game entries in this
41 .Ar file .
42 .Sh OPTIONS
43 .Bl -tag -width Ds
44 .Bk -words
45 .It Fl c Ar title
46 The Chinese
47 .Ar title
48 of the game displayed on the arcade.
49 .It Fl e Ar title
50 The English
51 .Ar title
52 of the game displayed on the arcade.
53 .It Fl i Ar file
54 Read list from input list.dat
55 .Ar file
56 and optionally write to it.
57 .It Fl n Ar position
58 Placement of the new entry starting from 1. If the
59 .Ar position
60 is not given or is larger than number of games in the list, the new entry will
61 be appended to the end of the list.
62 .It Fl o Ar file
63 Write new list to output list.dat
64 .Ar file
65 (it must not exist and will not be overwritten).
66 .It Fl r Ar name
67 The
68 .Ar name
69 of the rom file, without file extention (ie. "wjammers").
70 .Ek
71 .El
72 .Sh CAVEATS
73 This tool will only work for the Pandora's Box 3 VGA/CGA "520+20" and "540"
74 versions which use list.dat files. Other distributions like Little Elf 3 HD for
75 example do not.
76 .br
77 Please contact the author if you have been able to use this tool for other
78 versions of this system.