ACA1230-28 ACATune settings

Hoping someone can please help me get the most out of my recently acquired A1200 and the ACA1230-28 card that is installed?

I have downloaded the ACATune_v17 tool and installed the file in the root directory. I am looking to use the system primarily for WHDLoad games.

I read that the startup-sequence should contain the ACATune commands. My question is what should the string contain? The instructions are over my head as far as knowledge is concerned. It mentions this as an example: -

ACATune _<option> <argument> (-<option> <argument>) >NIL:

Obviously it is a case of substituting the settings into the string to set it up correctly, however I'm not confidant I understand the instructions well enough. Hoping someone can help.

The card I have is as follows: -

ACA1230-28 with 64MB.

[fitzsteve]

Which Kickstart do you have?

Following some help I received which stated the following: -

go to cli
then write

ED S:startup-sequence
and in first line write


C:ACATune -maprom * >NIL:



thats enough if you want map rom to fast

dont worry will be ok

if you check that ACAtune working , U can write in cli

ACAtune -status

thats all

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Which Kickstart do you have?

Kickstart 3.1 ROM's installed.

[fitzsteve]

Ok, so the easiest option as they said on your other Forum is:

C:acatune -maprom * >NIL:

Make sure you placed ACAtune in C:

The declaration above should be the first line in your Startup Sequence

I missed the space between the * and the >. Thanks Fitzsteve


My next problem is some of the games crash shortly after loading. As an example Bloodwych plays ok. However Rainbow Islands and Future Wars crash almost immediately after starting a game.

ClassicWB states that it is running with a tick under 2MB of chip ram and 62MB or fast RAM.

My motherboard is a 2B Revision.

I deleted the files on my CF partition that contained WB, then copied the DH0 image from ClassicWB to it. Then included the statement C:ACATune -maprom * -cache on -burst on >NIL: in the startup sequence. It now seems settled, played a game for a while and then lit it sit idle with the game running and it worked fine. Thanks to all that helped.

Which chip is the one I should cool or attach a heatsink?

[Johan1973]

I would suggest; Acatune -maprom * -burst on -cache on >NIL:
Gives a nice little boost.

Thanks for the replies, very useful information.