WinUAE 3.1.0 beta series

[thomas]

Since beta 4 PiccoloSD64 with CGX only works after a reboot.

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_3100b14.zip

Beta 14:

- Show selected accelerator board and HD controller name(s) in log lines.
- GVP Series I and II HD controllers can now be active at the same time.
- Added SCSI controller ID selection (only AdSCSI and A4091 supported so far)
- Mark HD controllers with * if it is enabled, becomes [x] if more than 1 controller is active.
- Fixed referencing to already freed SCSI/IDE HD controller context structure after reset/restart (b12)
- Added SupraDrive AMAB3, AMAB4 and AMAB5 ROMs.
- NCR539x based SCSI controllers always accessed unit 0.
- Added emulation of edge case when SPRxPOS or SPRxCTL vertical position is updated at the last available dma slot at the end of scanline. Next line's vertical comparison will match just before this position, in other words, if old value would match in next line and new value does not anymore, comparison match still happens. Fixes Arc Ed / United Forces missing sprite scroller.
- Added half-integer scaling option. (*0.5, *1.0, *1.5 and so on)
- New Velvet prototype difference found: both CIAs generate level 2 interrupt. Now Velvet tries to boot from disk, reads and executes boot block code if disk has correct bootblock which is different than release AmigaOS bootblock. MFM level format seems to be identical. Unfortunately, at least so far, no original Velvet floppy disks have been found and for some reason real hardware refuses to read any disks.
- If -seriallog is enabled, console log window also listens for key codes and sends them to emulated serial port. Very basic console emulator, enables quick use of Velvet ROM built-in serial debugger.
- Added "Any floppy drive" option to keyboard led configuration.
- Floppy sound volume control is not global anymore. Empty and disk in drive states also have separate volume settings. (Upper volume slider = drive empty, lower slider = disk in drive)
- Added fullscreen GUI option to misc panel. Opens GUI in max size, possibly useful with low resolution devices and/or small Windows tablets.
- Z3 autoconfig in "UAE" mode didn't work correctly with hardware RTG boards (b4)

[mark_k]

It seems some GVP ROM images aren't (yet) supported.

Over at amiga.org, Hizoap posted a dump of the "3.12S/3.2A" GVP ROM. (Attached here for convenience.)

There's a pic of a 68030 Combo accelerator with that chip at amiga.resource.cx.

The ROM image is 32KB. The first half (probably) contains an IDE/ATA driver, the second half SCSI. So GVP were able to just stock/ship a single EPROM applicable to both SCSI and IDE products.

I was able to get it working with GVP SCSI emulation by splitting the file into two halves and setting the GVP SCSI ROM file as the second-half file. But direct support would be nice.

[mark_k]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- If -seriallog is enabled, console log window also listens for key codes and sends them to emulated serial port. Very basic console emulator, enables quick use of Velvet ROM built-in serial debugger.

I guess that could also be handy for accessing ROMWack. Are any other options needed to use that? I ran WinUAE with -log -seriallog (in Windows Vista) and there's no serial output in the log window which opens.

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- Added fullscreen GUI option to misc panel. Opens GUI in max size, possibly useful with low resolution devices and/or small Windows tablets.

Enable resizeable GUI then enlarge the settings window. Click fullscreen GUI, then click it again to disable. The resizeable GUI checkbox is no longer ticked and the GUI is at its default size. You can however click Cancel, and on opening the settings window again, the window size is what you previously set it to, albeit with resizeable GUI still unticked.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by mark_k

The ROM image is 32KB. The first half (probably) contains an IDE/ATA driver, the second half SCSI. So GVP were able to just stock/ship a single EPROM applicable to both SCSI and IDE products.

Done. (But what IDE product? I don't think there was any GVP IDE when Series 2 SCSI was introduced)

I ran WinUAE with -log -seriallog (in Windows Vista) and there's no serial output in the log window which opens

Oops, it was -serlog..

Enable resizeable GUI then enlarge the settings window. Click fullscreen GUI, then click it again to disable. The resizeable GUI checkbox is no longer ticked and the GUI is at its default size. You can however click Cancel, and on opening the settings window again, the window size is what you previously set it to, albeit with resizeable GUI still unticked.

Currently it is by design.

[mark_k]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Done. (But what IDE product? I don't think there was any GVP IDE when Series 2 SCSI was introduced)

GVP must still have been supporting/updating the driver for their earlier 68030 boards with IDE controller. The ID string in the ROM (extract upper nybbles) is: gvpat 3.2 (05 Mar 1991) Ralph Babel

I don't think they can have shipped that kind of dual-code EPROM for very long. My 68030 Combo board came with gvpscsi.device 3.14, labelled as OMNI 3.5. No IDE driver in that EPROM.

[ma693541]

After following this guide; WinUAE PPC OS 4.0 Classic Install Guide i ran into booting crash problem of the emulated OS 4.0 in WinUAE 3.1.0b14, it works in last public release 3.0.0. I must tell you that I used a .vhf file instead of a .hdf file and i renamed the cyberstormppc_44.71.rom to cyberstormppc.rom. To get back to Windows after the crash I had to use CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the TaskManager and force it to close down WinUAE

My PC run Windows 8.1, 64bit on a Intel Quad-Core CPU.

[mritter0]

Try with my tutorial

Install OS4

[ma693541]

@mritter0, I tried your guide too and it gave me a nonbootable HD, both with WinUAE 3.0.0 and 3.1.0b14.

[Arnie]

Try using Ide a600/1200/4000 or cyberstormPPC accelerator id 0 for the HD

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by ma693541

i ran into booting crash problem of the emulated OS 4.0 in WinUAE 3.1.0b14, it works in last public release 3.0.0.

What was last working beta? (don't try to modify your config, it is not config problem)

[ma693541]

Toni, the last working beta I tried it in was 3.1.0b11 and I dont have beta 12 or 13. In fact beta 11 seem to be very PPC stable since my AmigaOS 4.0 was on and running the whole night without a crash.

[thomas]

WinUAE crashes if you select CyberstormPPC but leave the accelerator ROM file empty. Select "CyberstormPPC (128k)" (the only choice) from the drop down menu, and your config works.

Could be an "old config" problem, because a similar problem was fixed for Quickstart in beta 10.

[ma693541]

Thanks thomas, that did it, nothing showed up in the drop down meny, so I had to manually select CyberstormPPC (128) from a requester.

[Toni Wilen]

Confirmed and fixed. Accelerator board HD controllers were not initialized if board's boot rom was not configured (Even if accelerator board init autodetected it).

[Sandro]

hey tony there is a bug in the floppy drive sounds

if you lower the volume for clicks in DF1 , winuae automatically disconnect the sound on DF0:

here is a config in b14, you can see that DF0 has volume enabled but there is no sound

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_3100b15.zip

Beta 15:

- Map only upper half of ROM image if GVP Series II ROM is 32k.
- HD controller ROM loader duplicate code removal from HD controller specific code.
- Accelerator board HD controller hardware was not added to emulation if board's boot ROM was missing. (b12)
- Added DKB 12x0 accelerator on-board RAM support. 1M and 2M size are not supported, address mapping is not completely emulated.
- Floppy sound volume mixing fixed (b14).
- Oktagon 2008 didn't have autoboot disable option.
- Only keep high Windows timer resolution mode active when emulation is running.
- Added Seek (6) and (10) SCSI commands to HD SCSI emulator, only checks for valid LBA.
- VGA modes had inverted TV/VGA aspect ratio setting. (Probably not completely correct yet)
- Added configurable blanking borders. GUI adjustment hacked to Filter panel, "Overscan blanking" setting. When "Overscan blanking" is selected, filter mode is always none. First slider adjusts horizontal start, second = horizontal end, third = vertical start, fourth = vertical end. Values are always in superhires (horizontal) and interlaced (vertical) coordinates. Zero = disabled. Currently display is only updated with new values after returning to emulation and GUI text elements are not changed.

[mark_k]

When HAM-E mode is enabled (i.e. HAM-E is selected in external display hardware and a HAM-E image is being shown) the image is offset vertically, appearing lower on the screen than it should be.

I opened the HAME_Setup_2 image on HAM-E disk 3 from Workbench. When the mouse pointer is at the top left of the screen, it covers the HAM-E magic cookie so the display falls back to normal mode. By moving the pointer up and down slightly you can toggle between normal and HAM-E modes and see the picture position jump.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by mark_k

When HAM-E mode is enabled (i.e. HAM-E is selected in external display hardware and a HAM-E image is being shown) the image is offset vertically, appearing lower on the screen than it should be.

I opened the HAME_Setup_2 image on HAM-E disk 3 from Workbench. When the mouse pointer is at the top left of the screen, it covers the HAM-E magic cookie so the display falls back to normal mode. By moving the pointer up and down slightly you can toggle between normal and HAM-E modes and see the picture position jump.

I don't think it is HAM-E specific, HAM-E and Graffiti use mode originally designed for A2024, display positioning is not really designed to match native display. I am not sure if this can be fixed easily.

[AVH_2009]

Hi Toni,
you do an awesome job!

But when will it be possible to get PC Drives mountet with WinUAE under OS 4.x (PPC)?
Is there any way to get usb or cd-drives to work? Ore other removable drives
like under OS3.9 in the emulation?