Anyone with a ACA1233n? Help with Maprom

[Pjeff18]

Hello
I am struggling to get booted into WB when I attempt the Maprom command so I must be doing something wrong. Here are the steps I have done so far:

Downloaded the specific 1233n software from: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACA1233n

Step 1: unpacked ACA1233n.lha
Step 2: Located drawer and installed into C: (nice and easy installer thank you)
Step 3: checked libs file is in libs drawer - it is
Step 4: checked ACAMapRom and ACA1233n are in C:
Step 5: Added Kick31.rom kickstart into DEVS

Step 6: Edited s:/startup-sequence and tried the following:

Attempt 1: C:ACA1233n - maprom DEVS:kick31.rom
Attempt 2: C:ACA1233n - maprom DEVS:kick31.rom >NIL

Attempt 3: C:ACAMaprom DEVS:Kick31.rom
Attempt 4: C:ACAMaprom DEVS:Kick31.rom >NIL

It will not work, the above commands were added at the top and it wont boot into my workbench unless I edit the sequence back to original and delete the top command line that I have entered. Assuming my Kick31.rom file is in DEVS (which it is) what is the exact code I need to add please?

[demolition]

Originally Posted by Pjeff18

Attempt 1: C:ACA1233n - maprom DEVS:kick31.rom

You should probably use '-maprom', not '- maprom'.
Did you try writing this command manually in CLI to see what happens?

[bubbob42]

@demolition: All quoted command calls are non-existent or full of errors. Please don't make it worse by going down the same route - guessing stuff without reading my documentation, first.

[demolition]

I only know acatune myself which I use with ACA1232 and ACA620, and I assumed the OP had already checked the documentation for these tools in the first place. Perhaps I was too optimistic.

[Toryglen-boy]

you dont even need the dash

acamaprom i

to map the internal ROM

acamaprom FILENAME

no dash is needed, i use it myself, oh, and its case sensitive, so all lower case.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by Toryglen-boy

you dont even need the dash
oh, and its case sensitive, so all lower case.

No, it's not

[Toryglen-boy]

Originally Posted by bubbob42

No, it's not

tell you what my friend, good luck with solving this on your own.





>gone<

[Pjeff18]

Originally Posted by Toryglen-boy

you dont even need the dash

acamaprom i

to map the internal ROM

acamaprom FILENAME

no dash is needed, i use it myself, oh, and its case sensitive, so all lower case.

Thank you so much, all I wanted was a simple explanation as to what I have done wrong as I have got confused, first using ACAtune before Jens at IC advised this was not correct. Personally for a complete novice with command line I find the instructions a bit sparse .... it would be good to have a dummies guide considering I like others have just paid £220 for a great product the support to date is not what I expected.

Can I just confirm, stupid Q as it may be - I do need to add it to the startup sequence using ed: ?

Thanks again

[indigolemon]

You'll need to edit s:startup-sequence using ed or any other editor of your choice yes.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by Pjeff18

Thank you so much, all I wanted was a simple explanation as to what I have done wrong as I have got confused, first using ACAtune before Jens at IC advised this was not correct. Personally for a complete novice with command line I find the instructions a bit sparse .... it would be good to have a dummies guide considering I like others have just paid £220 for a great product the support to date is not what I expected.

There is a "dummys guide" included in the software archive. Its name even ends with ".guide".

[Toryglen-boy]

Originally Posted by Pjeff18

Thank you so much, all I wanted was a simple explanation as to what I have done wrong as I have got confused, first using ACAtune before Jens at IC advised this was not correct. Personally for a complete novice with command line I find the instructions a bit sparse .... it would be good to have a dummies guide considering I like others have just paid £220 for a great product the support to date is not what I expected.

Can I just confirm, stupid Q as it may be - I do need to add it to the startup sequence using ed: ?

Thanks again

you're welcome.

yes.

ed s:startup-sequence put it near the top

[Vypr]

Originally Posted by Toryglen-boy

you're welcome.

yes.

ed s:startup-sequence put it near the top

What I did.

Put ACAMApROM command in the C: directory.

Add the following to the top of startup-sequence

c:ACAMapROM I q

q switch is required to suppress messages which can screw up the boot sequence.

[bubbob42]

Originally Posted by Vypr

c:ACAMapROM I q

q switch is required to suppress messages which can screw up the boot sequence.

That's indeed the recommended variant, although "ACAMapROM i > NIL:" should work the same.

[Pjeff18]

Thanks for all your help guys, all working as it should now.

[Pat the Cat]

Originally Posted by bubbob42

No, it's not

Perhaps both you and Toryglen-boy are partially correct?

In that spelling out an Amiga command does not matter for case, so

ACAMAPROM

and

acamaprom

... Both activate the command. However, if that command is fussy about the FILENAME of a rom file being perfectly correct, there is not a lot the end user can do about it.

I could be entirely wrong about this particular command, but I have seen a couple others that were so fussy and UNIX conformal in their approach.

[bubbob42]

@Pat: sorry, no. AmigaDOS is by default and on an Amiga filesystem almost completely case insensitive. ACAMapRom utilizes dos.library's ReadArgs() function which returns a pointer. That's being relayed to Open() which does not care about case at all. I know because I wrote the software for this particular accelerator.

@Toryglen-boy: sorry for appearing a bit harsh, but it appeared like a typical case of "user did not read docs which took programmer lots of time to write. Other user comes along and spreads partially superficial knowledge to help. Programmer cries RTFM"

[Pjeff18]

In the end bubbob42 was very helpful and guided me. I am
So used to reading docs and readmes in PCs and failed to look at the included docs on the Amiga hence the confusion with the ACAtune tool.

Thank you for getting me up and running

[kulamario]

Can anybody tell me how to turn off maprom in aca1233n please
Please write command to startup-sequence

[quantum8]

Originally Posted by kulamario

Can anybody tell me how to turn off maprom in aca1233n please
Please write command to startup-sequence

Open up your startup-sequence in S: and find the ACAmapROM command. It should be near or at the top.


Just put a ; in front of it to comment the line out.

Save and reboot.