Files and folder structure

PCUAE Manager holds game information in one or several SQLite databases. The "databases" folder contains subfolders for each database. Each database folder contains the database file named "pcusb.db". Covers, screenshots and game files are in the "covers", "screens" and "games" folders. The "saves" folder contains saved states and the "extradisks" folder contains additional disk images.

The "jre" folder contains a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which is needed to run the application. The "vice" folder contains the Vice emulator (C64 and Vic20) and is used when running games.

The "pcuae-install" folder is where the installation files for PCUAE and the different modes are downloaded.

A backup folder is also created when a backup of the database is created. Each backup gets a separate folder named by the database name and date and time it was created.

The file pcusb.log contains debug logging and is useful to include when reporting bugs.

Upgrading to a later version

From version 2.0.0 of the manager updates will be downloaded and installed automatically, a check for a new version is performed at each start.

For older versions the main application executable can be downloaded from here. It's only the exe file that needs to be replaced when upgrading the application.

Create an empty copy of the manager

If you want to create a clean, empty version of the manager you can copy the folders "jre" and "vice" and the file PCUAEManager.exe to a new folder. Just start the manager in the new folder and you get an empty instance you can fill with games.