FreeAXP - Run as a service

Is it possible to run the current version of FreeAXP as a windows service?

The current release of FreeAXP '1.3.0.351' is not designed to be run as a service.

'Run as a service' is a feature that requires a different approach to the emulator's VLC console and the o/s console, as well as its interaction with the desktop. We have an internal development release with this capability but there is no product ship date at this stage.

John M<hr>

These links may help:

www.timdavis.com.au/general/creating-a-u...ervice-in-windows-7/

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/foru...26-abee-5122181877e1

support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

Avanti and AvantiFlex will support running as a service in release 2.1 or 2.2.

Thanks for those links Bruce.

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These links may help:

www.timdavis.com.au/general/creating-a-u...ervice-in-windows-7/

answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/foru...26-abee-5122181877e1

support.microsoft.com/kb/137890

Avanti and AvantiFlex will support running as a service in release 2.1 or 2.2.

I have got FreeAXP running as a service, and it works very well indeed, following these links: you have to use the word "Application" where Tim Davis's article says "App-" and AppParameter must just be the "/CONFIGURATION_FILE="/path/to/whatever_your_conf_file_is_called.cfg" but otherwise it all works well. You can use the windows sc command to add a description after you have the service installed, if you want e.g.
sc description name_of_service "This is a description for the Freeaxp emulator application running as a service"

I would recommend setting the service as manual or Automatic (delayed start) because I think Windows has enough to be starting with getting all the rest of its stuff to support the system up and running before having to worry about FreeAXP. If you SET AUTO_ACTION BOOT and SET BOOTDEF_DEV ddua (i.e. your boot disk) and exit properly it will save that in the nvr file and automatically boot up next time your host machine reboots.

Following on from this, what would be particularly nice would be to intercept machine shutdown (or shutdown and restart) so that putty can be configured to logon to the console (OPA0) as system and issue a shutdown command, followed by a console firmware exit, before the host machine finally shuts up.

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