WinUAE 4.4.0 beta series

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_4400b9.7z
http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae64_4400b9.7z

Beta 9 (RC2): Final = next week.

Only few previously missed CPU fixes due to a bug in my tester..

- TRAPcc and CHK2 exception stack frame fix. Stacked PC was not pointing to next instruction. (CPU tester didn't validate 68020+ exception stacked PC field. Fixed and retested.)
- 68060 LPSTOP illegal instruction if second word is not 0x01C0 and privilege violation due to new SR not having S-bit set stack frame had wrong stacked PC.
- 68060 STOP privilege violation if new SR didn't have S-bit set (68060-only special case) exception stacked PC was wrong.

[ransom1122]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

One possible reason is running out of process address space. 32-bit Windows + lots of RAM configured (usually if more than 512M) can cause problems. Try without 32-bit chip and Z3 RAM.

Yes... It seems 32bit Chip and Z3 RAM were the culprits causing the diagnostics error after beta 5, it seems my old dinosaur PC has bottle necked at Beta 6 and onwards

All Beta's now work perfect with my UAE when 32bit Chip & Z3 RAM are disabled.

Thanks guys

[Toni Wilen]

Good

I am quite sure lowering either memory size by one tick is enough to "fix" it.

[Tomislav]

Instead of Z3 RAM, you can also use A4000 "Motherboard Fast RAM", which is by default 8MB, and put it to WinUAE maximum of 64MB.

To change it click on drop down box in "Advanced Memory Settings" part. It is last item.

In real world modded A4000 can have up to 112MB of that RAM.

[loonsta]

@Toni

On my real A1200 I have a hardware device that switches input between mouse and joystick when I press a button on the given device, eg:

-Click left mouse button input switches to mouse
-Click joystick button input switches to Joystick

It's kinda like this device:
https://amigastore.eu/en/653-mouse-a...-switcher.html

Would it be possible to add this type of functionality in WinUAE so that we don't need to jump to settings to be able to enable a secondary joystick when in a game, then again to re-enable mouse after I finish playing?

Forgive me if this functionality is already there..

[Tomislav]

@loonsta

It's in "Game ports" already. "Mouse/Joystick autoswitching" check box.

EDIT: Looks like it don't work with keyboard keys defined joystick.

[loonsta]

Originally Posted by Tomislav

@loonsta

It's in "Game ports" already. "Mouse/Joystick autoswitching" check box.

EDIT: Looks like it don't work with keyboard keys defined joystick.

Cheers, now I just need to find how to do it in Amiberry

[Mikerochip]

Hi Toni, never noticed you replied to my post about the pictures data launching.

I've uploaded a config and game disk with pictures and such all set up to The Zone!

[ancalimon]

Has there been any change regarding reading real amiga hdds lately?

I just installed Amikit XE and I keep getting pfs3 error requesters or sfs error requester when I plug in a real ide or CF drive via usb.

Things worked previously but I havent been using Amiga or WinUAE for a 3 years.

[ancalimon]

Sorry. Here are the logs for the latest beta.

I will try again soon but the hdd was working without these error requesters on my real A4000T using Acard 7720UW attached to CStormPPC scsi3 interface.

[Toni Wilen]

Do you really mean you last tested it 3 years ago and now expect it to be a bug introduced in this version? Nope.

EDIT: Also 4.4.0 is already out. I didn't close this thread yet but soon.

[ancalimon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Do you really mean you last tested it 3 years ago and now expect it to be a bug introduced in this version? Nope.

EDIT: Also 4.4.0 is already out. I didn't close this thread yet but soon.

Just tried on my real A4000T no errors here. I will try WinUAE that came with free Amikit8 to see if it gives the same errors.

[Toni Wilen]

You need to find the version that was first non-working.

Also include thomas' hddreport (https://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-onlin.../hddreport.lha) output from both latest winuae and real hardware.

Log looks fine.

EDIT: Or perhaps your real hardware has another boot drive with newer/different filesystems versions?

[ancalimon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

You need to find the version that was first non-working.

Also include thomas' hddreport (https://thomas-rapp.homepage.t-onlin.../hddreport.lha) output from both latest winuae and real hardware.

Log looks fine.

EDIT: Or perhaps your real hardware has another boot drive with newer/different filesystems versions?

There are three harddrives attached to my 4000T's CStormPPC scsi3 interface.

One IDE with OS4.1 FE and a large data partition both are sfs and ffs installed on rdb.
One SATA with 3.9 and and some partitions sfs and ffs installed on rdb.

And this 120gb ide drive with pfs3 aio. I just updated it from your old version 18 on my real Amiga.

I will do the tests.

[ancalimon]

All of the versions that work on my PC give the same errors. I tried two different USB docks for IDE hdds. Maybe the usb3 ports have a problem. I will try with a USB2 port... And still the same.




Also tried my Amiga CFcards and they fail too. I am confused because all of these used to work in the past. Could a Windows driver update broke it?

[ancalimon]

Could this be causing the problem? Some information is different from what is reported by hdtoolbox under Winuae.



Also when I click read configuration under hdtoolbox, blocks per cylinders change from 6047 to 6048

[Toni Wilen]

It looks like writes are not rejected. (PFS3 does single write after booting to set journal state)

Usual reasons:
- administrator privileges missing (usually it is not needed with CF cards)
- some security software not allowing direct disk writes.
- bad USB adapter. Some older adapters apparently are partially broken and fail with newer Windows versions (probably firmware bug that returns incorrect feature information)

HDtoolbox information is not important, it is just some generated geometry. Geometry used during partitioning is already saved to RDB.

[ancalimon]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- administrator privileges missing (usually it is not needed with CF cards)

Sorry. It is fixed now.

[Skumball404]

After deleting a configuration item it still remains in the list until the program is restarted.