Console-based abandonware game installer and runner.

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/abandi
• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/abandi

Features:

• Games are serached on abandonware sites, downloaded over internet, unpacked and run by emulators

• HTML parser back-ends:

  • lxml
  • BeautifulSoup

• downloader back-end: urllib
• unpacker back-end: pyunpack

• simulator back-ends:

  • dosbox
  • openmsx
  • scummvm
  • stella
  • vice

• supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7

Known problems:

• tested mostly on linux

The selected game will be downloaded, unpacked and started by an emulator.

if you know the id:

$ python -m abandi.run --auto-install gb64 3021

if you have an up-to-date database:

$ python -m abandi.srun --auto-install --name galaga

• install Python
• install pip
• install back-ends for pyunpack (optional)
• install supported emulators (optional)
• install HTML parsers (optional)

• install the program:

  # as root
  pip install https://github.com/ponty/abandi/zipball/master    

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install https://github.com/ponty/abandi/zipball/master
# optional
sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full
sudo apt-get install dosbox openmsx scummvm stella vice hatari
sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup python-lxml

# as root
pip uninstall abandi

# database, games
rm -r ~/.abandi