Program generates game launchers for WHDLoad collection of
games and demos. It is heavily inspired by AGLaunch, as it
uses the same final guide file layout (may thanks to Zetr0 and
Bloodwych for that idea), but it is an independent development.
Scanning of info files can take 1-2 minutes, but once cached in
PC RAM, subsequent runs of the program should take 5-10 seconds.
This makes parallel testing in emulator almost real-time, so you
can play with the settings and find what suits you the most.

Program is intended to run from Linux computer that has Python 2.7
installed and has access to Amiga directories where games are unpacked
(it was confirmed that it works on windows with cygwin). The ideal
situation is if you have the same directory structure on PC and on Amiga.

Program offers many options to customize list generation, for example:
- configurable directory paths and file names
- language preferences (include only certain language titles in game list)
- preferences for TV system (PAL/NTSC), memory type (Fast/Slow),
  release type (Release/Preview), or any combination of the above
- configurable number of columns in main page list (with letters),
  and in game/demo lists
- configurable max number of chars in one line, so you can generate
  launchers more suitable for Amigas with high res displays, with more
  visible columns
- automatic name expansion of WHDLoad titles, and shortening of those
  names by words, depending on available column width. For example
    ChaosStrikesBack&EnUtil/ChaosStrikesBack
  will first be expanded to
    Chaos Strikes Back & Util-Chaos Strikes Back
  and then shortened to available column width. If you, for example,
  use 3 columns with 1 char padding on game/demo lists on standard
  Amiga resolution, the name will be
    Chaos Stri.B.U.-C.S.Back
  but if you use 2 columns, it will be
    Chaos Strikes Back U.-Ch.Strikes Back

To adjust the options and to see detailed explanation for them, open
and modify Settings section of PyAGLaunchGC.py.

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