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1. I made a RAD disk the other day but when I reset the emulator with a software reset command, the RAD disappeared. Is this meant to happen or is there a way to preserve it? Do TSRs work? 2. When I boot the emulator without ROMs, it says "unable to find commodore 1.2/1.3 roms." Lotus 2 and other games work fine using the AROS ROM, so is there a way to switch that annoying warning message off? 3. The FDD floppy drive sound is rather generic and I wondered if its possible to add a slide for pitch or tone? Many second drives dont sound the same as internal drives, and it would be a way to tell the difference during loading of multidisk games. Also disks which play a tune using the disk drive read head noise can be pitched to the right notes. 4. Simulated Dot Matrix printer. Yes I know this would only be the sake of the sounds of the printing process, but maybe it could be fun. Of course all we would see on screen would be 'printing' and hear the sounds. 5. Simulated Modem hook-up. We all remember how it used to sound during the dial-in process, which is now almost a distant memory, but I used to hear this every day. 6. Disk slide and clunk. Yes we have the sound of the disk drive as it clicks, but we dont have the sound of someone sliding a floppy into the disk drive during insert and eject. This would slow down the loading of games and disk swapping, as we hear the sound, but I do miss the sounds of disks being inserted into drives. 7. Software NTSC toggle? There are a few packed in commands which work in Amiga DOS, but there is no soft reset command, or NTSC toggle. When I run a normal NTSC toggle program in the emulator, it stays in the mode the emu was running in. So if its Pal, I cant toggle to NTSC unless I open the options and select NTSC and reboot. 8. Web Resources. It would be great if there was a button in the Roms section saying Buy Now, with a link to the Cloanto site. Then nobody can say they dont understand how to get the emu running. |
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There is already a Cloanto link in the About box. I don't see how inserting more ads for Cloanto's ROMs of dubious legality and compatibility would help people understand how to configure the emulator.
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Most requests could be funny to have but honestly I don't get the point with this n°8. Advertisement for commercial product in the ROM section ?¿ Why not then also a link to Hyperion for KS 3.1.4 (or maybe upcoming 3.2). Should FS-UAE, UAE4All, etc. also have such link ? No, definitively think it's a bad idea. My two cents...
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Google search isn't difficult. Asking on here where to buy roms isn't hard.
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Thanks for your time and consideration. I guess its up to the Term/software to provide dial-up noises, and certainly if dialing into a real BBS it might still work? Or maybe you'd still need to simulate a modems speaker to hear anything?
I tried No Quickstart and it worked. No idea what was going on with the RAD, it was WB3.1 with lots of ram and setpatch as far as I know. I was trying to get Celtic Heart to boot as a RAD, as someone was complaining they cant read ADFs on their real Amiga (and dont have a working disk drive), but they can copy files and install stuff. As its a non-dos disk, Im not sure if RAD would boot it anyway. So that was perhaps the issue. No worries about a soundscape, as a real Amiga has fans, hums, hard drives, and all kinds of noises, which would be difficult to emulate without sampling a whole bunch of stuff. When it gets down to the sound of controllers being swapped or the CD-32 lid being closed, it gets a bit silly. Point 8, it would be great if there was more love for Hyperion and their roms. Funny, I never go to the About page because that is often just about the author, or about their software or studio, or its full of updates and hotfix info. But yours is neither of those. Its a list of credits. I guess there is no other place to put them, and its good you shared those links. |
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Is the Reset button on the WinUAE Properties window meant to be a soft reset?
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Thanks DamienD, good to know. So after messin' about with boots, provided RAD: is mounted AND activated under 2.1 or just mounted under 3.1 (auto-activates), then it survives a 3-key reboot in WinUAE.
However, the Reset button in Properties will totally wipeout RAD. Toni? Not Gnarly, Dude! |
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BTW, I don't know if this is allowed or not, BUT, you can buy Amiga Forever Essentials for Android for only £1.79! More info here: https://www.amigaforever.com/android/
Purchase here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ver.essentials You can then use those ROMS since you have legally now purchased them, in your emulation environment. "com.cloanto.amigaforever.essentials" I believe, is where they are located. For £1.79, I don't think it's too much to support the cause... |
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Ah, ha! You hit something there. When I use a software reset command to reset the machine, it hard resets the emulator and Rad is lost. When I use the emulator Reset Button, it hard resets the machine and Rad is lost. But when I went to Game Ports -> Custom 1 (port 2) -> Remap -> Add Event -> Reset Emulation -> Assigned as F6, and pressed F6 to reboot the emulator, it kept the Rad and it found it on the early startup menu every time. I clicked Rad_1 and then Boot and it booted from the Rad. I then pressed F6 a couple more times, and it survived the reset each time, and booted from the Rad automatically. Last edited by lifeschool; 05 November 2019 at 18:34. |
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I always use the 3-key reboot in WinUAE; which would be a soft reset. Hard reset must be the Reset button. |
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Probably not necessary, easy to use the default 3-key reboot
I don't think I've actually ever used the "Reset" button. |
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Im using an A1200 keyrah combo, but I assigned my Right Amiga Key in Windows to perform some shortcuts. So I never got to use the usual Soft reset mode. If its still CTRL+LAmiga+RAmiga?
It doesnt solve the Rad disk problem. If I extract an ADF to RAD and use a software reboot command, it should soft reset workbench. If I exit the emulator and click Reset, it should hard reset the emulator. Otherwise, when I install an ADF to Rad in the emulator, and script it to reset, it wont survive and bring up the game. Of course this would work on a real Amiga, so my ADF 2 Rad idea might still work after all. I know I used to play Test Drive 2 from Rad in the day, but this was a cracked DOS copy of the game. |
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GUI Reset button is hard reset. It does hard reset because most common use case is to switch disks using GUI and then reset and in this case you don't want to keep any possible reset proof programs.
Use keyboard reset, like you would do when using real hardware. There is no reset buttons (without hardware hacks). |
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