WinUAE 1.4.5 public beta series

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by koseidon72

What do you mean for brown paper bag?

Try your favorite search engine.

[koseidon72]

I see
So you've already fixed it, I guess

[turrican3]

i tried amikit 1.4 with the version b7 of winuae and amikit boot really more slowely than with winuae 1.4.4.
Toni tell me if your need more explanations ?

[thor]

CDTV extended ROMs 2.7 and 2.30 don't work anymore with this beta series. It stays at a dark grey screen on booting. This happens with b1/b3+ (b2 continuously resets with all versions).

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by turrican3

i tried amikit 1.4 with the version b7 of winuae and amikit boot really more slowely than with winuae 1.4.4.
Toni tell me if your need more explanations ?

Something very very important like which was first slower version..

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by thor

CDTV extended ROMs 2.7 and 2.30 don't work anymore with this beta series. It stays at a dark grey screen on booting. This happens with b1/b3+ (b2 continuously resets with all versions).

I never noticed because it worked fine if logging was enabled
Problem was incorrect 6525 interrupt mode emulation. (Bug was invisible until "Snoopy" fix was implemented)

[turrican3]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Something very very important like which was first slower version..

it slowdown from 1450b2
the speed is good for 1450b1
i just noticed the boot speed became very slow from the 1450b2 (+ or less 2 times slower)

[turrican3]

i made a test: i firstly boot amikit 1.4 i noticed the hour on the taskbar and i make a soft reset (ctrl A A) and notice the hour when the taskbar reappear,
before 1450b2 it took 13 sec, after 1450b2 27 sec.If someone can confirm ?
Why ?

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1450b8.zip

Beta 8:

- AGA sprite doublescan fixed (b7)
- some more doublescan tweaks (Super72 modes are now detected as doublescanned. Other "weird" modes also work more or less, note that some require horizontal centering)
- sana2 configuration save fixed (but note that sana2 emulation still isn't really doing much)
- CDTV "Snoopy" fix corrected. Fixes random CDTV boot freeze.
- increased A590/A2091 SCSI data buffer size (crash while formatting if sectors per track size was large enough)
- default hardware config (used by QS) clears pc drive mount checkboxes
- harddrive removal signal was not always send to uaehf.device if drive was removed with disk still in drive (for example USB ZIP drive)
- directory filesystem ACTION_SET_DATE notification check crashed if file didn't exist
- directory filesystem and hardfile slowdown fixed (b2)
- state save crashed if directory harddrives were configured but state was saved before drive initialization, for example when booting non-dos adf
- always include empty memory space between Z3Fast and RTG RAM

[turrican3]

thank you Toni,
tested the speed slowdown and savestate with nondos all work perfectly

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1450b9.zip

Beta 9:

- default GUI and main window position is centered, not top/left corner
- optional ini-file registry replacement.
* -ini <file> in command line: use <file>
* winuae.ini used if it is in same directory as winuae.exe
* file extension must be .ini or it will be ignored
* file will be silently deleted and re-created if
- it is read-only but not delete-protected
- if warning messages in ini-file are modified or deleted
- if it is not compatible with new version
* message will be added to both logs if registry replacement is enabled. Bug reports without also testing in non-ini mode will be ignored.

* Pointless Windows feature "discussions" won't be allowed.

[Mozzerfan]

Since installing winuae 1.4.5 beta 8, the game hus from sillcon wizards
does no longer work. http://www.silicon-wizards.com/hus.php
I included 2 screenshots of how the game should
look and how it looks in beta 8 and 9.
Hope you can look into it.
BTW thanks for continuing development of winuae. It gets better and
better with every new release.

Kind regards,
Lloyd

[glue]

i tested it on B9 and work perfectly

[Mozzerfan]

Thanks Glue for testing. I made a new config file and the game now
works with both beta 8 and 9.
I still have one problem with beta 9. The paths to my rom files, config files
etc. keep disappearing. Every time I startup beta 9, I have to reenter the
paths to my files. Somebody have a clue what's the problem ?

Thanks,
Lloyd

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1450b10.zip

Beta 10: (Paths reseting can make testing very annoying..)

- added missing "barrier" bytes at end of Z3 fast. Crashed in non-direct JIT-mode if read/write crossed memory boundaries. (for example long read from END_OF_Z3 - 2)
- paths reseting to default fix (b9)

[Mozzerfan]

Thanks for fixing the problem so fast Toni. Paths work ok in b10
now

Kind regards,
Lloyd

[glue]

Toni

You are faster than light

[Mozzerfan]

I have made a backup of my 'real' amiga 4000 and burned it on CD with
MakeCD. I always could use this CD with Winuae. Today I tried it with
beta 10 and winuae crashed. I did some testing and this behaviour was
introduced in beta 6. If I start winuae after I insert the data CD all
is well. As soon as I try to insert it when Winuae is already started,
winuae crashes. I included the dmp file and my bootlog. If you need more
info, please let me know.

Kind regards,
Lloyd

WinUAE-crash.zip

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mozzerfan

I did some testing and this behaviour was
introduced in beta 6

Confirmed and fixed (I hope..)

Also, Quickstart on/off checkbox is not working properly, expect another beta tomorrow..

[Ed Cruse]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Confirmed and fixed (I hope..)

Also, Quickstart on/off checkbox is not working properly, expect another beta tomorrow..

Also Toni the default floppy on Quick Start is not working, the history works but it shows no default floppy, with b8 is does. With b9/b10 I used both registry and .ini methods.

By the way, I like using winuae.ini much better then the registry, if anything it makes seeing what's being stored on the fly much easier.