WinUAE 3.0.0 beta series (was 2.8.2/2.9.0)

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

With beta 13, my OS4.0 is booting, but the ppc emulation s running 100s of times slower than usual. Its slowed considerably in my warpos install as well.

My laptop isn't very fast. It boots with beta12, but with beta 13 as you say it's 100s of times slower... so maybe it will boot tomorrow or so.

Sorry, I surely have should posted in the other thread, I don't know, but it's b13 the cause of the slowdown.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

To me the beta 13, appears to be rather faster than the beta 12, a modest PC Dual Core 1.80 GHz 2 Gig of RAM with Windows XP installed, started OS4.0 Classic in just 2,5 minutes.

[Arnie]

This is beta software, just report the facts and stop moaning.

[BinoX]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Is it possible to surf the Internet inheriting the connection from the PC

Check out the updated Part 4 of the guide (assuming you enable network during the steps in part 2)

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Thanks BINOX, but on OS4depot there is no "wget-OS4," but it is just "wget-bin", about the Wireless (WLAN) is there any software like Network Preferences used on AROS?

[BinoX]

The wget-bin contains wget-OS4... I just put the essential part for the guide in the linked adf file.

Yeah, there is somewhere... I'll check next time I'm back st my computer, but I think it's in prefs somewhere

[Retrofan]

I just want to say that my problems not booting OS4.1 with the latest betas began after trying the b13 just because of a bad hdf (my fault), but the thing is that it doesn't boot with this WinUAE.exe that I started using after that http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=544

The beta 13 Toni originally posted works.

[MickJT]

Originally Posted by Retrofan

I just want to say that my problems not booting OS4.1 with the latest betas began after trying the b13 just because of a bad hdf (my fault), but the thing is that it doesn't boot with this WinUAE.exe that I started using after that http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=544

The beta 13 Toni originally posted works.

I think that's because of what I mentioned here: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=557

I couldn't boot either. The log just kept filling up. I didn't try disabling logging altogether, but that'd probably work. b13 is fine.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

If possible, I would like to have some clarification on WinUAE

- I did a manual install of OS 4 Classic, and I find myself a maximum resolution of 800x600 patterns, how do I increase the resolution?
- Another thing I want to know if the video card affects the resolutions on OS3, for example, I noticed that a video card "ATI Radeon x1550" gives me a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 while on Notebook PC, same OS, with a video card "Intel HD Graphics" from me instead of 1600x900

thank you in advance

[AMIGASYSTEM]

About OS4 I solved the problem resolution is enough for a simple click in Picasso96Mode to have a maximum resolution of 1600x1200, now I doubt remains about whether the type of video card PC's actual influence on the resolutions.

[Michael Sykes]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

If possible, I would like to have some clarification on WinUAE

- I did a manual install of OS 4 Classic, and I find myself a maximum resolution of 800x600 patterns, how do I increase the resolution?
- Another thing I want to know if the video card affects the resolutions on OS3, for example, I noticed that a video card "ATI Radeon x1550" gives me a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 while on Notebook PC, same OS, with a video card "Intel HD Graphics" from me instead of 1600x900

thank you in advance

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

...
- Asking about PPC OS related questions: -> WinUAE PPC thread.
...

I guess it is only limited by the 4MB ram of the (emulated)Picasso and the maximum resolution of the conected (host)monitor.

EDIT: You can use the tiny paperclip logo in advanced mode to add a thumbnail of a picture.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

About OS4 I solved the problem resolution is enough for a simple click in Picasso96Mode to have a maximum resolution of 1600x1200, now I doubt remains about whether the type of video card PC's actual influence on the resolutions.

uaegfx: yes (only resolutions that your real video card support are listed)

rtg board hardware emulation: no, emulation can't prevent "illegal" modes just like monitor that can't support large resolutions can't prevent gfx card to output unsupported resolutions.

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_2900b14.zip

Beta 14:

QEMU PPC is still work in progress (by Frode and me), QEMU-side is not yet included. It run for the first time few days ago. It is not stable enough yet but hopefully soon...

- Autoconfig stopped immediately after first A590/A2091 board was configured.
- If VHD check/validation failed after VHD type was fetched (static vs dynamic), VHD was still accepted as valid, possibly crashing soon after. HDF type variable was not cleared, bug since VHD support was added.
- Automatically extend internal SCSI emulation buffer size if larger than current buffer size transfer is requested.
- If 68060 and "Unimplemented CPU emu" is ticked: 68060 unimplemented instructions that are completely unimplemented (CHK2/CMP2/CAS2/MOVEP) still triggered illegal instruction exceptions.
- 68000/010 configuration with 32-bit address space is now allowed.
- Blizzard 2060 ROM loading special case handling didn't work. (Has odd/even parts, others don't)
- Redesigned GUI SCSI expansion ROM selection, easier to add new boards in future.
- Fastlane Z3 SCSI board emulation implemented, another FAS216 based SCSI controller. z3scsi.device from phase5.a1k.org in rom scanner, but it would be nicer to have full dump. SCSI part only, memory part ignored.
- Oktagon 2008 SCSI board emulated. This was interesting, it has "software DMA" (SCSI chip is told to do DMA transfer but "DMA controller" is IO space that CPU reads or writes), it also have 512 byte serial EEPROM used to store config (with only 15 bytes used). EEPROM data is internal, not saved to any file. 6.12 (last release?) boot ROM added to rom scanner. Autoconfig data is currently not confirmed. Support added only because it was quite different than most other SCSI controllers.
- TekMagic 2040/2060 board added. 1.0 tekscsi2.device ROM added to ROM scanner, both odd/even pair and merged rom supported. NOTE: tekscsi2.device has a bug that does not allow RDB filesystem loading. Fast RAM expansion is not supported, it seems TekMagic fast RAM can also start from 0x02000000, not the usual 0x08000000. tools/showconfig output needed.
- NCR53C710 SCRIPTS DMA wasn't correctly started when in manual start mode. (tekscsi2.device)
- Added support for non-MMU bus error caused by invalid memory accesses, including 68000/010/020 models which normally can't generate bus errors but perhaps some expansion hardware will need it in future.
- Screenshot with D3D shader filter + take screenshot before filtering ticked saved final D3D output, not original unfiltered buffer.
- "SCSI (auto)" now works with all SCSI boards. Selects first SCSI board that is enabled. (In same order as select menu lists SCSI controllers)

Some code restructuring:

- Autoconfig board handling rewritten yet again, removed lots of code duplication and moved most duplicated autoconfig logic from board specific files to common expansion.cpp.
- Autoconfig board ROM config handling reorganized, now it is much easier to add new Z2/Z3 boards.
- Replaced my hacky serial EEPROM emulation with better one from QEMU, made it generic (previously only used in CD32 emulation).
- Removed A590/A2091 and A4091 Expansion panel checkboxes, enable/disable is now ROM selection. (ROM selected = enabled, ROM selection empty = not enabled)

[BinoX]

Looking good

Not had a lot of time to play with it yet, but it all seems to be going well so far Thanks.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Run the new Beta 14 with the same settings as "functional" than previous releases, I request that this also closes if I closed WinUAE, I need to change some particular setting?

EDIT

With OS3.x Beta 14 no problem? the request appears only with OS4.0 Classic

[Neil79]

Toni Wilen do you have a Facebook or Twitter account for up dates? Cheers

[B14ck W01f]

Originally Posted by Neil79

Toni Wilen do you have a Facebook or Twitter account for up dates? Cheers

He told me that he doesn't use social media.

[Mclane]

Can't say I blame him, neither do I, too many people simply wanting to contact you for no reason.

But on topic, nice update Toni...Just waiting for you to create the AI so it can play all those really hard games for me

[Neil79]

Originally Posted by Mclane

Can't say I blame him, neither do I, too many people simply wanting to contact you for no reason.

It's mainly for press purposes

Back on topic then I guess

[klesterjr]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

Run the new Beta 14 with the same settings as "functional" than previous releases, I request that this also closes if I closed WinUAE, I need to change some particular setting?

EDIT

With OS3.x Beta 14 no problem? the request appears only with OS4.0 Classic

Same here.