Individual Computers - New accelerator cards for A600 & A1200

[fitzsteve]

Maybe you could try building a Custom Rom and using the ACA's Maprom to remap it from an image?

My Blizzard 060/PPC won't boot when I patched the scsi.device but I ended up getting a FastATA MkIII so don'e have to worry about that anymore...

[Claw22000]

I had the same propblem and tried to make a new rom to load with no sucess if you get it I would appreciate knowing what you did the only difference is I have 3.1 roms and I'm sure it dosnt matter. Thanks

I'm already glad I'm not the only one

Thanks for the idea fitzsteve. I'm quite newbie but I will look at how to do that.

But if the great creators of ACAtune could eventually have a look ... that would be pretty cool :-)

[mfilos]

@dreamybxl, @Claw22000
Check your PM guys I sent some instructions on how to overcome those obstacles.

Thanks mfilos !!
Unfortunately, that does not work for me.

I tried all the ROMs on my A1200 and it does always the same: the screen goes red and the power led blicks, and then reboot.
But I managed to have the ROMs work in WinUAE ...

Any idea ?

[mfilos]

Red color flashing means: ROM error.

Make sure that the ACATune declaration is the first line in your Startup-Sequence.
Even the slightest load before it, will mess the memory alas the kicked image of yours won't load properly and you'll have issues.

Use the following declaration to test your kickstart images:
C:ACATune -maprom <Your_Custom_Kick_Path> -cache on -burst on >NIL:

example:
C:ACATune -maprom Devs:kick31.rom -cache on -burst on >NIL:

If it doesn't work also, maybe the kickstart images aren't correct.
I wrote a guide for you to be able to make one on your own here: http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=11935

ACATune is really at the first line.
I even removed the top comments as I became paranoid :-)

Well well well ... I'm gonna try to make my own to see ...
I also have another A1200 unit to compare ... in case of ...

BTW, which version of ACATune do you use ?

[FOL]

Originally Posted by mfilos

Red color flashing means: ROM error.

Make sure that the ACATune declaration is the first line in your Startup-Sequence.
Even the slightest load before it, will mess the memory alas the kicked image of yours won't load properly and you'll have issues.

Use the following declaration to test your kickstart images:
C:ACATune -maprom <Your_Custom_Kick_Path> -cache on -burst on >NIL:

example:
C:ACATune -maprom Devs:kick31.rom -cache on -burst on >NIL:

If it doesn't work also, maybe the kickstart images aren't correct.
I wrote a guide for you to be able to make one on your own here: http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=11935

What about the "p" paramiter?
Patch the rom.

Screen going orange means its loaded the rom fine.

[Schoenfeld]

Originally Posted by FOL

What about the "p" paramiter?
Patch the rom.

Screen going orange means its loaded the rom fine.

Nope - screen going orange means that the computer is in the wait-loop that the patch is inserting. It does not say anything about a properly loaded ROM. Also, you need to make sure that ROM area $7ffa6-$7ffe7 is free - no ROM module may be located there. Patching Kick 3.0 does not work - it must be 3.1 or a 1MB version with that specific area free.

Jens

Jens, do you know more about this issue with scsi.device and acatune ?

Or is it an issue with loadmodule ? because acatune seems to execute fine. But the following "LoadModule scsi.device" crashes the machine...

---- Edit -----

Ok, I made some "progress" ... I realized that I forgot to remove the kick 3.0 jumper on ACA 1230 board. After I did it, no more red screen !
Unfortunately, the custom ROMs still don't work. After the maprom, the following happens:
- reboot
- screen goes orange
- sçreen goes black
- power LED blicks ... And reboot ... And loop to orange screen ...

When I use the standard 3.1 kick, the machine boots but don't start on my CF (error is "Not a valid DOS disk). Does that mean that a disk formatted with kick 3.0 does work with 3.1 ?? That sounds rather strange ...

I still did not understand why custom ROMs dont work (they seem to work in WinUAE).
Any idea is welcomed.

[Claw22000]

They do work just need to do it right got a pm from a guy and he helped throught it. Now I have a custom rom that works.

I think the trick is to only change out the scsi.device on that tutorial. Keep everything else standard.

Ok, I also got my custom ROM working. Here is the procedure I followed using lastest Remus:
- Make sure that the "kick 3.0" jumper is set on the ACA1230 board
- Grab the contents of kickstart 3.0
- Create new ROM project (standard 512K, with checksum)
- Include all modules from original kickstart 3.0 EXCEPT "scsi.library" and "icon.library"
- Include patched "scsi.device" version 43.24
- Generate new ROM
- Copy "icon.library" from kickstart 3.0 into "libs:"
- Make sure the first line of startup-sequence is as follow:
ACATune -maprom <path-to-rom> p -cache on -burst on >NIL:

Reboot ... and it should work. You may do a similar procedure with kick 3.1 of course.

Thank you all for your support !

[mfilos]

I'm glad you got it working mate

[NovaCoder]

Anyone know when ACTune is going out of BETA?

[gibs]

Problem with acatune :

Error : ACA Card Type Unsupported.

Of course the aca630 is inside the Amiga and the acceleration is there.
I have also removed acatune from the startup-sequence but once back in the WB the problem is the same.

Any ideas ?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1566495/Amiga/Acatune.JPG

[Schoenfeld]

Please contact your reseller for support. THis is not a support forum.

Jens

[Hewitson]

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Anyone know when ACTune is going out of BETA?

Anyone know why it's needed? I'm not aware of any other accelerators that require such a thing.

[mfilos]

Originally Posted by Hewitson

Anyone know why it's needed? I'm not aware of any other accelerators that require such a thing.

It's not needed for accelerator to work! It's needed if you wanna take advantage of all the features these accelerators have to offer.

The fact that with a tiny software you can change a lot of settings, and map Kickstart ROMS on the spot... makes it not only a useful application but a damn essential one!

[gibs]

@jens

Sorry, I didn't knew I couldn't ask to the ACAboys if they had an idea about this problem.

Problem solved without calling the Resseller.
I thought it would have been helpful to share the experience.
I thought it was the goal of a forum.

Sorry again

[Retrofan]

Originally Posted by gibs

@jens

Sorry, I didn't knew I couldn't ask to the ACAboys if they had an idea about this problem.

Problem solved without calling the Resseller.
I thought it would have been helpful to share the experience.
I thought it was the goal of a forum.

Sorry again

I believe that if you can tell how did you solve it in a single post it won't hurt anybody but on the contrary.