Beta 5.3.0 OS 4 and OS 3

[AC/DC HACKER!]

Hello, those interested. I welcome feedback.



WinUAE 5.3.0 beta series
Beta 1:

- CyberVision PPC/BlizzardVision PPC RTG board (Permedia 2 chip) partial emulation. G-REX needs to be enabled, C/BVPPC is basically Permedia 2 PCI card in CyberStorm MK3/PPC/Blizzard PPC internal PCI bus but I didn't want to to emulate "fake" G-REX with only single virtual slot. Yes. I wrote yet another SVGA chip emulator.

Got it.. BUT I don't understand why G-REX needs to be enabled since my actual A4000 Picasso 4 and CVisionPPC
doesn't have a G-REX. OS 3 and OS 4 see both just fine as standard. But, okay, if it requires emulation to work...

"- If PCI device was non-UAE built-in (It was PCem SVGA card) and PCI was configured by single write to PCI BAR (Base Address Register), without first doing PCI bar size/alignment detection, device ignored all BAR writes. Fixes pre-44.71 CSMK3/PPC/BPPC boot ROM CyberVision/BlizzardVision PPC PCI configuration (Pre-44.71 support CV/BV PPC but not G-REX PCI). This was not a problem with PCI bridgeboards because bridgeboard drivers always first autodetect each PCI device's BAR size and required alignment."

Beta 3: (Probably 2-4 weeks to go)

- Small PCI emulation changes (For example G-REX + Permedia 2 + some other PCI card: same card appeared 8 times)
- Added Apollo 630 emulation and boot ROM 5.61. Nothing special, ROM is only used to detect the RAM: "32Bit Power-Burstmode-FastRAM", apparently cool sounding name can make RAM even faster! (oddly ROM contains at least parts of IDE and SCSI drivers from other Apollo accelerators).

I encountered that in some test.. "same card appeared 8 times".


Beta 4:

- Only "insert" CV/BVPPC in to CSMK3/CSPPC internal PCI slot. Insert any other PCI card in to G-REX PCI slots. OS4 does not detect boards in first "internal" PCI slot. (b3)

For a little bit I wondered what do you mean from the first sentence. Probably RTG Board...select that and all is good. Nope. CSPPC doesn't see it. Enable G-Rex does it. AH, HA!! That's what he meant...

From there after changing ROM to Indirect, on boot, OS4 CD Will detect it for a moment and then revert to native.

OS 3.1 will notice it with G-Rex enabled and I may install P96 and it will detect it, but..has display problems.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by AC/DC HACKER!

OS 3.1 will notice it with G-Rex enabled and I may install P96 and it will detect it, but..has display problems.

Works for me. No graphics problems.

EDIT: so the usual testing: same in all color depths? Where does glitches appear? Screenshot. Picasso96 version. And so on. And make sure no 3rd party patches are installed.

[AC/DC HACKER!]

For OS 3.1, without 3rd party patches. P96 3.1.1.. When I use ScreenMode and choose a different mode, Workbench will clear the screen and not go any further. Screen setting is saved before it locks. So resetting will display the new mode. If I switch to 1024x768x16 the screen is doubled.

As for OS 4.1, booting from the CD attempts to go into a higher resolution, but falls back to native.
When installing anyway, CVisionPPC string can be chosen. Once install is down, and booting from HDF it doesn't go past this screen.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by AC/DC HACKER!

For OS 3.1, without 3rd party patches. P96 3.1.1.. When I use ScreenMode and choose a different mode, Workbench will clear the screen and not go any further. Screen setting is saved before it locks. So resetting will display the new mode. If I switch to 1024x768x16 the screen is doubled.

Can't duplicate. (But also don't have that exact P96 version). HDF probably needed..

As for OS 4.1, booting from the CD attempts to go into a higher resolution, but falls back to native.
When installing anyway, CVisionPPC string can be chosen. Once install is down, and booting from HDF it doesn't go past this screen.

winuae.7z should fix this. (I didn't know OS4 supported it). Boot screen has dark colors. It did program RAMDAC to 8-bit but still writes 6-bit palette values. Only affects boot screen.

[AC/DC HACKER!]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Can't duplicate. (But also don't have that exact P96 version). HDF probably needed..

Do you still want a HDF of 3.1 since the Email?

winuae.7z should fix this. (I didn't know OS4 supported it). Boot screen has dark colors. It did program RAMDAC to 8-bit but still writes 6-bit palette values. Only affects boot screen.

I...have some understanding of what you mean. Yup, I can boot A4K and see CVPPC well in 15/16.. That's what I meant a bit ago that it doesn't look like Picasso IV. I don't expect you to recall that. It's (used to be) fun making CDs into Partitions to boot from. Looooove WinUAE!



You remind me of a very, very, VERY dedicated Amiga user/programmer called Chris Brenner (great friend) from the early A4000 days. In CA...


Anyway, thanks a LOT, Toni, here to help if I am able.

[starship]

Hi
Anything about radeon 9200 series?

[AC/DC HACKER!]

As you requested, picture, config, and logs.
The config is currently set for OS 3.1. I went through all the 1024xXXXxX resolutions and ended with 800x600x16 which I use often.

[AC/DC HACKER!]

Picture. :-)

[AC/DC HACKER!]

You requested.

[Toni Wilen]

"Interlaced". Thats the important bit. Interlaced modes seem to be stretched. But why is it interlaced in your config? Permedia 2 can do at least 1600x1200x16 non-interlaced.

It sounds like you have selected monitor with low max vertical/horizontal refresh rates. Check Picasso96Mode (or P96Prefs if KS 3.2+)

EDIT: It might be as simple as this: Permedia 2 does not seem to have interlaced mode support which means the only way to "support" them in P96 is to only show every other line.. = you get bad aspect ratio image.

[AC/DC HACKER!]

Making that sound that says, "Silly me.." I didn't look close enough. Good catch, Toni, I should have looked closer. Change to test HDF made, and all 1024's look good.

[Toni Wilen]

It is correct result when attempting to use Permedia 2 interlaced modes. Chip does not support interlace but because P96 needs to support interlace, you get halved vertical. (which is better than getting nothing)