PPC Support in FS-UAE

[sbergmann]

Added "hard_drive_0_type = rdb" and reinstalled. Now I get "Not a DOS disk in device DH0" upon boot. Progress, though :-)

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by sbergmann

Added "hard_drive_0_type = rdb" and reinstalled. Now I get "Not a DOS disk in device DH0" upon boot. Progress, though :-)

Perhaps your remaining problem can be explained by improper use of the AmigaOS 4 installer

Please check an AmigaOS 4 installation guide for FS-UAE or WinUAE, what kind of file system you should use for your AmigaOS boot partition (or file system handler not properly installed on the HD, etc), my guess is that there's something wrong there.

[sbergmann]

Thank you for your patience. I missed setting the DOS type of the DH0: partition to SFS\2 (0x53465302). Reinstalled with that and now I get a Guru Meditation upon boot instead of the "Not a DOS disk in device DH0" error.

My System: Win 7 (64Bit), Core I7, 8GB Ram
FS-UAE: 2.5.30dev, OS4.1FE Classic

My FS-UAE configuration
--
# FS-UAE configuration saved by FS-UAE Launcher
# Last saved: 2015-04-04 13:09:11

[fs-uae]
amiga_model = A4000/OS4
hard_drive_0 = os41.vhd
uae_a2065 = slirp
---

I have 2 Probs:
- In the Shell or the editor i can't use any courser-key (or page up/down, or pos1/end)
- the network doesn't run (the system see the a2065, but...)
(- and problem 3: (maybe the main)
when i copy the qemu plugin from >http://fs-uae.net/plugins< to >Documents/FS-UAE/Plugins/< the qemu.dll wouldn't find (green screen and error text), this .dll in the >AppData\Local\fs-uae< works also not. When i copy the qemu_uae.dll from WinUAE to the folder >AppData\Local\fs-uae< the system will start)

Can anyone help me?

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by malte

- In the Shell or the editor i can't use any courser-key (or page up/down, or pos1/end)

Cursor keys, probably due to joystick emulation. See http://fs-uae.net/faq.

Originally Posted by malte

- the network doesn't run (the system see the a2065, but...)

Are you sure you have installed proper AmigaOS 4 drivers for the A2065? I think I had to download a driver from Aminet to be able to use the A2065.

Originally Posted by malte

(- and problem 3: (maybe the main)
when i copy the qemu plugin from >http://fs-uae.net/plugins< to >Documents/FS-UAE/Plugins/< the qemu.dll wouldn't find (green screen and error text), this .dll in the >AppData\Local\fs-uae< works also not. When i copy the qemu_uae.dll from WinUAE to the folder >AppData\Local\fs-uae< the system will start)

You need to extract the plugin sub-folder as well (see http://fs-uae.net/plugins). But copying the DLL to the program folder also works. I recommend removing it though, and using the recommended plugin location (but note that the plugin location is still subject to change until the next stable release). Anyway, this is not a cause of your other issues.

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by sbergmann

Thank you for your patience. I missed setting the DOS type of the DH0: partition to SFS\2 (0x53465302). Reinstalled with that and now I get a Guru Meditation upon boot instead of the "Not a DOS disk in device DH0" error.

I still suspect your remaining issue is an "installation problem". Perhaps file system / partition is still not installed correctly (have you added the file system handler).

Perhaps try with FFS instead if that's an option, since that can be natively booted without a file system handler on the partition (if that works, that indicates your problem was a mis-configured installation).

[ero__]

Hi there.

I have a eMac PowerPC G4 1.25 ghz & 1 gb. ram.

I can install mac os x 10.5.8 on it. Can I use PPC emulation ? Is there or will be any way for using mac's PPC?

Thanks.

[ero__]

Everyone died?

[tlosm]

Originally Posted by ero__

Everyone died?

One core is not the best for PPC emulation.
It work but is needed 2 cores machine or you will have a PPC running like an 68020 ...
On my quad G5 in the best conditions (linux PPC) i can have a 604e 350mhz speed using 2 cores.
No opportunity to have kvm :-(

[ero__]

Thanks tlosm...

I tried many linux versions for my emac.

Is there any1 know good and fast version for it?

I run debian 8 for powerpc but I can't run fs-uae...

[SKOLMAN_MWS]

E-UAE is dedicated for PPC.

AmigaOS4 support G3 and G4, so maybe someone do natively handling CPU like emulation Apple Mac ShapeShifter/Fusion on M68K and iFusionPPC on PPC.

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by ero__

Is there or will be any way for using mac's PPC?

The qemu-uae plugin emulates the PPC CPU. It does not use the host PPC CPU directly, even when you run on a PPC host.

I'm using the Windows portable version of 2.5.32dev, I have the qemu-uae plugin extracted in the Plugins folder as noted here:

Initializing plugins
- checking C:\Users\icebalm\AppData\Local\fs-uae\plugins-dir
resolve_path D:/Amiga\Plugins (absolute)
- using "Plugins" directory "D:/Amiga/Plugins"
loading plugins from D:/Amiga/Plugins
Checking D:/Amiga/Plugins\libcapsimage-windows-x86\plugin.ini
Loading D:/Amiga/Plugins\libcapsimage-windows-x86
-> D:/Amiga/Plugins\libcapsimage-windows-x86\5.1fs1
Checking D:/Amiga/Plugins\qemu-uae-windows-x86\plugin.ini
Loading D:/Amiga/Plugins\qemu-uae-windows-x86
-> D:/Amiga/Plugins\qemu-uae-windows-x86\3.6.0qemu2.2.0

Yet it still refuses to load the qemu plugin as noted here?

PPC: Loading QEmu implementation
PLUGIN: Looking up "qemu-uae"
PLUGIN: Checking "D:\Amiga\Windows\fs-uae\qemu-uae.dll"
PLUGIN: Looking up "libqemu-uae"
PLUGIN: Checking "D:\Amiga\Windows\fs-uae\libqemu-uae.dll"
WARNING: Error loading qemu-uae plugin

WARNING: PPC: Error loading qemu-uae plugin

I'm kinda wondering why FS-UAE is looking in \windows\fs-uae for it, when it already found it in \plugins?

Also, I did try copying the qemu-uae.dll into \windows\fs-uae as both it's original name and libqemu-uae.dll however the same error occurs? Is the version of the plugin on http://fs-uae.net/plugins outdated to the point where 2.5.32dev won't load it?

[FrodeSolheim]

@icebalm it is possible the .dll isn't loaded because of a DLL dependency issue.

Can you try with the newly released 2.5.33dev? (you have to update the plugin(s) for this version too, please delete all traces of the old plugin first, including the copies you made).

(I just tested the new 2.5.33dev portable with the qemu-uae 3.6.0qemu2.2.0fs1 plugin on Windows right now, and it works here)

Originally Posted by FrodeSolheim

@icebalm it is possible the .dll isn't loaded because of a DLL dependency issue.

Can you try with the newly released 2.5.33dev? (you have to update the plugin(s) for this version too, please delete all traces of the old plugin first, including the copies you made).

(I just tested the new 2.5.33dev portable with the qemu-uae 3.6.0qemu2.2.0fs1 plugin on Windows right now, and it works here)

Yes it works with the latest version and plugin, thank you!

http://s4.postimg.org/ijf8sl3i5/tutor1.jpg

Anyone have got this error?
It seems a library not load from the rom during the boot...


Miss the exec library ...

[B14ck W01f]

What, this is not sticky post anymore?

[FrodeSolheim]

It didn't seem necessary anymore, people can open new threads for specific problems