I think the best thing is that we can really see how much is being done behind the scenes.
Before we'd go for months with no changes and it could sometimes feel like there wasn't much happening.

Much better now! :)

Great stuff. :) Do let me know if you have any feedback or problems or anything, I'm always interested in improving the drivers.

I meant automount originally. Would be a bit silly to try and boot from a swap partition :) Even so, though, it still wouldn't cripple the early startup screen, it just wouldn't boot.

Just the existence of a custom filesystem partition being mounted is enough to send it haywire.

Hi everybody,

One thing my CSPPC has always done (which no-one else seems ever to have) is that whenever I set the RDB of the main disk to have a custom filesystem, and don't put said filesystem in the RDB, it throws a major wobbly.
This usually manifests itself by stopping the machine booting completely - it usually even stops the early start-up screen from working.

Now luckily, I know how to fix it (Go into the CS-PPC's startup screen by pressing Escape, disabling the drive responsible, booting from floppy, running SCSIConfig, scanning the bus to enable the drive again, and then running UnitControl to set the bad partition to not automount).

The problem is now I have OS 4.1 on my A4000. This is a problem because the Swap partition doesn't HAVE a filesystem to install onto the RDB.
Hence, when I set it to autoboot from within OS 4.1, it works perfectly. Then I do a cold boot and everything dies.
I need to tell the RDB what the Swap partition is. It has the DOStype set correctly and everything, it's set to CustomFileSystem.

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks!

Is there a way to purge OS4 from memory, to allow soft rebooting back into OS 3.x? I have OS 3.x going into OS 4.1 without problem, but not the other way round...

Any ideas? Thanks if so!

Hi,

First thing - support questions are best emailing me directly - I only just noticed this thread had been updated.

The current drivers will give a read error on block 0 if the drive isn't connected. Are you absolutely sure the Catweasel is connected correctly?

First, check your prefs are set correctly by running the Catweasel preferences file. Make sure your drive is set to the correct type and in the correct place (i.e. Unit 0 regular PC 3.5" drive is the normal configuration, of a standard floppy after the twist in the cable).

Once that is done, check the Catweasel is talking to the drive. Easiest way to do this is run SuperDiskImage, and set the start and end track to about 30 or so. Then put in a disk, put a random filename in the Filename box (such as "ram:test.img") and tell it to read. You should see the drive start up, the light go on, and you should hear it seek to track 30 or whatever. If you don't - your CW either isn't recognised, or it's not finding the drive. Check all your connections (especially the PCI connector).
I can't remember if the current public version has debug info. Find out by running Sashimi and see if it gives debugging information.

Best thing is to email me (see my sig) then we should get it sorted out.

My 4000 has an internal SATA DVDRW drive.. it's connected via an "external" USB->SATA £5-off-eBay job to the Deneb.
I know it's not really OS4 specific, but it's still cool have a fast SATA DVDRW on my A4000. :)

Whoever said that you wouldn't notice the difference between USB 1.1 and USB 2 was either trying to convince themself, or they were lying. :)
Seriously, 35MB/s is waaaay faster than 1.5MB/s, you'd notice that as soon as you did anything.

It's possible that they were talking about classic Amigas, where the CPU may be a bottleneck and stop you using the full speed of USB 2, but even on my Deneb there's a big difference between the 6MB/s USB 2 and 1.5MB/s USB 1.1.

And yes, USB2 and 100Mb ethernet have been supported for some time now....

Sounds like it can't open the file. That bit of code hasn't changed for ages.

Try it with "RAM:Test.adf" as the filename.

I'm looking forward to textured video - that'd be awesome for my TV card drivers..... here's hoping AmiWest provides!

A1XE cannot boot from the 3512 because the UBoot is too old.

You have to have a minimal boot disk which just loads kickstart, and then you can boot off the 3512, I believe. I have a disk on my internal IDE which switches control to a JXFS partition on my 3512.

They work as well as they do on other OS 4 platforms, unless they require AGA in which case they run much better. You can even run Frontier Elite II on 4.0 (can't afford 4.1 for my 4000 yet so not tested it on that!).

Hi people,

Most of you probably don't know I have an occasionally-updated blog of my computer repairs at http://mutantcaterpillar.wordpress.com, and I thought I'd "inform" (spam) you all with the fact I've just put an A600 entry, in case you may find it interesting.

Any comments gratefully received!

Hans, thanks for the updates...

Quick question though - Will the overlay replacement work using the PiP functions transparently?

I don't really remember to be honest. It probably is the CD audio in if there's no line-in as such, as it's all the same thing.

I've not really tested it to be honest, but I did test it as far as seeing if it recorded, and from memory it did just that.

My Sam 440ep's front headphones socket is actually a stereo line in....

Hi everybody,

I've got some trouble with AmigaInput (library v53.1). SDL appears to enumerate the device correctly but only one port. The other port is never enumerated, and my AmigaInput driver only ever gets called with 0x300 (Amiga Joystick port 1), never with 0x301 (port 0, i.e. 2nd joystick). SDL always says "1 Joystick found" instead of 2.

Is there something my driver is missing or is it an oddity in SDL?

Thanks for any help!

Excellent! Thanks for that - I did wonder if I was barking up the wrong tree but there's scant little documentation to work with.

This is exactly the sort of entry that should go in the new AmigaOS developers wiki! :)

Hi everybody,

I'm writing a Reaction app which needs a slider with 12 values, 0-10 and "AUTO". I'm trying to make a label next to the slider using a Label object, and this works. However, it never updates, even when I call SetAttr or SetGadgetAttr or whatever. I'm using an IDCMP hook for notification.
What should I be doing to get this label working?

Thanks for any help!

Excellent!
Can you download it from http://www.retroreview.com/iang/mametiny0145.lha please?

If you extract it somewhere on your hard disk (it didn't work when I did it from RAM just now - not looked at it properly though), then start sh. I think it needs a /home directory. It may work from a normal shell if you have HOME: assigned.
Then from sh:
export SDLMAME_DESKTOPDIM=320x200

That makes it spend less time on the display, and more on processing.

Then see how any of the ROMs do. They all struggle on my machines I've tested on so far, needing at best frame skip of about 6 frames (Peg II/A1) and the SAM needs about 10 frames. Looping doesn't run at full speed at all.

It's a "tiny" build so don't bother with any ROMs not in the "tiny" ROM set.

Do please let me know what happens. :)