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[Sinphaltimus]

Here's a couple of updates - Since going Core2.7 with CoffinOS r48

http://forum.apollo-accelerators.com...php?f=7&t=1873


http://forum.apollo-accelerators.com...php?f=7&t=1872

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Sinphaltimus you've tested the GnGeo Emulator on CoffinOS r48? it works?

[Sinphaltimus]

I have not - not really interested in the emulators or games at the moment.

My primary objective is to customize workbench to my preferences, install the apps I want to use that are not included and test, then explore coffin and play while testing other applications that come with it. Once that dies down; get to work. I want to play with RedPill and get back into OctaMed, fantavision and DPaint for animations and music.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

I do not play anymore either i have 63 years , i just wanted to know if it works, on WinUAE I get a black screen, all other emulators and other applications on CoffinOS work perfectly.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

GnGeo ... on WinUAE I get a black screen,

does it use SDL?
I've encountered problems with SDl based programs/emus, once switched or started in full screen.
It's a problem with current sdl 1.2 for the 68k amigas, windows mode does work most the time.
maybe it does have a command line option for window mode/non-fullscreen mode

[AMIGASYSTEM]

No emufan, with AFA OS never had problems with SDL

See these videos of mine:

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[emufan]

it was just a guess. the 1st and 2nd run in window mode,
the third maybe full screen, or borderless max-size-window.

does GnGeo opens a window on your workbench, or is the entire screen black?

there is that fullscreen problem with sdl 1.2 for 68k amiga for sure.
but with GnGeo it might be something else

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Full Screen black, no borderless max-size-window, this happens both with AFA OS that Coffin OS, I suspect it's set somewhere the graphics card SAGA

[Sinphaltimus]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Sinphaltimus you've tested the GnGeo Emulator on CoffinOS r48? it works?

I'm loading up Metal Slug 2 right now with it. It sure does take a long time.....

Like, a really long time...

It started, I couldn't figure out how to add coins, there was no sound. I went into options and set sound to 44100 and it froze up on me.

that's about it.

[emufan]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Full Screen black, no borderless max-size-window, this happens both with AFA OS that Coffin OS, I suspect it's set somewhere the graphics card SAGA

I try to build a window-mode version, almost done,
just some linking problem

[Sinphaltimus]

I also updated my forum links with the following information:

Outstanding Issues or problems encountered:
1. Unable to create any more partitions on my 320GB HDD. Only 32GB avilable like the Coffin Image and it has 3 partitions DH0, 1 and 2.
2. 194x game screen is corrupted and unusable.
3. SMBMounter various errors, cannot open mountlist, cannot mount anything except via quick method.
4. Cannot use ipm help in cli - get error: EXECUTE: Illegal .DEFAULT directive, key "repo" not found object not found

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

Outstanding Issues or problems encountered:
1. Unable to create any more partitions on my 320GB HDD. Only 32GB avilable like the Coffin Image and it has 3 partitions DH0, 1 and 2.

This is normal when writing a Disc image "AMiGA", HDToolbox he can not handle the rest of the disk.
To avoid this up, create on Windows a partition dedicated to Coffin da 32GB (write the disk image here), in this way you can also manage the rest of the disk.

[Sinphaltimus]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

This is normal when writing a Disc image "AMiGA", HDToolbox he can not handle the rest of the disk.
To avoid this up, create on Windows a partition dedicated to Coffin da 32GB (write the disk image here), in this way you can also manage the rest of the disk.

There is no method that I know of to apply a 32GB HDD Image to a partition. I used HDD RAW Copy and it only allows applying direct to HDD destroying any partitions on the drive. So how do you overcome this?

EDIT: I'm going to try creating a FAT 32 partition using windows in the unused space and see if that will show up.

EDIT2: No, Windows diskpart does not see any partition on the HDD - I'm taking an image now to back it up before I go messing around anymore.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

There is no method that I know of to apply a 32GB HDD Image to a partition. I used HDD RAW Copy and it only allows applying direct to HDD destroying any partitions on the drive. So how do you overcome this?

Seee screenshot (HD Mount USB Case)

[Sinphaltimus]

So win32 disk imager allows for this? OK, I will try this. First I want to backup my files and such so i don't have to reconfigure the entire system again.
That's gonna take all night so I'll see about repartitioning after that.

Thanks for the tip. I'll report back after I give this a go.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

The best solution anyway is to initialize and partition the hard disk with HDToolbox, create partitions with the same names and copy everything with the Filemanager, in a few munuti you will have yours CoffinOS installed correctly in the right space.

If I have to be honest I do not like the graphics of CoffinOS, bad icons, bad characters and bad skin windows for a system RTG Modern, it would be enough to install the libraries AFA OS to greatly improve its appearance

[arti]

Originally Posted by Sinphaltimus

I'm loading up Metal Slug 2 right now with it. It sure does take a long time.....

Like, a really long time...

It started, I couldn't figure out how to add coins, there was no sound. I went into options and set sound to 44100 and it froze up on me.

that's about it.

A solution for faster loading is to repack zip roms with 0 compression level.
This is about 5 times faster.

For sound which is not optimised yet use 11025 freqency.

[Sinphaltimus]

How to add coins and start game?

[TuKo]

Keys 1 and 3

[Sinphaltimus]

I have not gone back to try the NeoGeo yet (low priority) but I did want to report back about my HDD partitions -

Here's the update source: http://forum.apollo-accelerators.com...ed2627c4fc74d3

And content:

I cloned my Amiga HDD. O=Original to be repartitioned, C = cloned

I plugged in both HDDs to my PC via USB.
I configured winUAE to boot from C (clone) as unit 0.
I configure winUAE to have the O hdd as unit 1
When I start WinUAE I held down the two mouse buttons to go into early startup.

I disabled the partitions on O

Boot to C and the Coffin OS r48 boots up just fine in WinUAE (except for graphics and resolution but who cares. Not why I did it.

I thought it cute when WinUE played the Coffin startup sound though.

Anyway, I changed HDToolbox tooltype to uaehf.device and added drive O wiping out all partitions. I then repartitioned everything to what I want, taking up all 320 GBs (290 +). They are not DH0:,DH1: DH2 but instead WDH0:, WDH1: and WDH2: so they wouldn't conflict with the booted up Cloned drive.

Everything is partitioned as

WDH0: (SYSTEM) 8GBs New PFS3aio final
WDH1: (Programs) 50GBs New PFS3aio final
WDH2: (Restore) 8GBs New PFS3aio
WDH3: (Data) 50GBs New PFS3aio
WDH4: (Backups) 150GBs New PFS3aio experimental for >104GB partitions)
I left the rest of the space at the end of the drive alone and untouched (not partitioned or formatted).

When completed. I booted off the Original repartitioned HDD and got errors, went into HDToolBox and renamed all the Partitions back to DH0: DH1: and DH2:

The system booted fine but I have to restore my Screenmode as it had reverted back to RGB resolutions for some reason.

Now I have a new problem I will add to the list...

I can't reboot into Maintenance Mode. Can someone help me fix that? If I choose to reboot into maintenance mode none of my partitions come up as bootable and it asks for a 3.1 boot floppy. ***Fixed - see forum link for details***


PS - I accidentally created TrashCans on all my partitions. *Shrugs* lol