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headkase · 15 November 2017, 06:03

You should be using the UAE RTG Zorro III hardware in your configuration. The III gives you the ability to give it the higher amounts of RAM larger resolutions need, and being a UAE RTG it's intended to integrate well. Whatever mode you choose for the III then also choose that mode inside your emulated environment. The pixel order needs to be right or you'll get dots all over your display. Don't worry about choosing the wrong pixel order though, that shouldn't matter much, just try to get the Zorro III graphics working to even begin with.

An important point is to try to create your configuration around a Cyberstorm PPC system. That starts off with 128MB of RAM but with OS 4.1FE Update 1 you can now give your emulated environment lots of RAM. The Amiga 4000 Cyberstorm configuration has better low-level support in UAE so it should be preferred if possible.

Once you do get to installing Update 1 then *do not* get it through AmiUpdate. Instead go the the Hyperion website, log in with your details, and download that archive of Update 1. Extract that archive to somewhere the Amiga emulated OS can see it and run it locally to do the update. Then you're looking for "commandline NoRAMPager" (search this site for those terms) to enable the extra RAM. The reason to manually download Update 1 is that a 128MB Cyberstorm Amiga doesn't have enough memory to have both the download in memory and the installer running at the same time. Once Update 1 is installed though and you have your memory increased with NoRAMPager then I would assume that future Updates from Hyperion could then be installed with AmiUpdate.

And don't worry too much about the ROMs, the ROMs you'll need are the Cyberstorm PPC ROM and a Kickstart 3.1 ROM. You can buy Amiga Forever and that will give you legal access to both those ROMs and a few others, just don't get the Value version as that one is bare-bones and doesn't have much firmware. The Plus version has everything you need.

15 November 2017, 06:03	#23
headkase Registered User Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Canada Posts: 65	You should be using the UAE RTG Zorro III hardware in your configuration. The III gives you the ability to give it the higher amounts of RAM larger resolutions need, and being a UAE RTG it's intended to integrate well. Whatever mode you choose for the III then also choose that mode inside your emulated environment. The pixel order needs to be right or you'll get dots all over your display. Don't worry about choosing the wrong pixel order though, that shouldn't matter much, just try to get the Zorro III graphics working to even begin with. An important point is to try to create your configuration around a Cyberstorm PPC system. That starts off with 128MB of RAM but with OS 4.1FE Update 1 you can now give your emulated environment lots of RAM. The Amiga 4000 Cyberstorm configuration has better low-level support in UAE so it should be preferred if possible. Once you do get to installing Update 1 then do not get it through AmiUpdate. Instead go the the Hyperion website, log in with your details, and download that archive of Update 1. Extract that archive to somewhere the Amiga emulated OS can see it and run it locally to do the update. Then you're looking for "commandline NoRAMPager" (search this site for those terms) to enable the extra RAM. The reason to manually download Update 1 is that a 128MB Cyberstorm Amiga doesn't have enough memory to have both the download in memory and the installer running at the same time. Once Update 1 is installed though and you have your memory increased with NoRAMPager then I would assume that future Updates from Hyperion could then be installed with AmiUpdate. And don't worry too much about the ROMs, the ROMs you'll need are the Cyberstorm PPC ROM and a Kickstart 3.1 ROM. You can buy Amiga Forever and that will give you legal access to both those ROMs and a few others, just don't get the Value version as that one is bare-bones and doesn't have much firmware. The Plus version has everything you need. Last edited by headkase; 15 November 2017 at 06:21.