some WHDLOAD slaves supposedly working on plain 68000 don't work: is that normal? - Page 2

Gaula92 · 30 October 2011, 23:59

@FOL: Tried not turbo. And I'm using the ARM expansion. NORMAL vs TURBO CPU speed doesn't seem to cause much trouble for compatibility: it simply tends to make games faster or smoother, but it doesn't affect compatibility that much. Tried anyway, no difference.

@Photon: Minimig has came to a point where incompatibilities are very rare, and in most cases they come from bad ADFs or installs. In fact, even those games DO work on the Minimig anyway in ADF form. But I get your point: WHDLoad adds a new complex enviroment to take into account for compatibility, and the Minimig was designed as an Amiga500 replacement in the first place. It's just thanks to the AWESOME work of people like Yaqube, Boing4000, MikeJ, etc... that things went much further, with fast HDD support, faster 68000, improved chipset implementation..

Photon · 01 November 2011, 01:05

Yep, I think so too. I had an early Minimig before ARM expansions etc, so I may over-exaggerate 'compatibility'. If it now *is* close to Amiga hardware compatibility, perhaps some WHDLoad test version could be set up to find any discrepancies in WHDLoad itself. But if it's predictably in specific slaves and other 68000 slaves work fine, you'd need new slaves or a way of converting slaves to um meet in the middle. Your best bet for that is to post a request in the WHDLoad forum, I think and see if someone can help you.

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30 October 2011, 23:59	#21
Gaula92 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Spain Posts: 527	@FOL: Tried not turbo. And I'm using the ARM expansion. NORMAL vs TURBO CPU speed doesn't seem to cause much trouble for compatibility: it simply tends to make games faster or smoother, but it doesn't affect compatibility that much. Tried anyway, no difference. @Photon: Minimig has came to a point where incompatibilities are very rare, and in most cases they come from bad ADFs or installs. In fact, even those games DO work on the Minimig anyway in ADF form. But I get your point: WHDLoad adds a new complex enviroment to take into account for compatibility, and the Minimig was designed as an Amiga500 replacement in the first place. It's just thanks to the AWESOME work of people like Yaqube, Boing4000, MikeJ, etc... that things went much further, with fast HDD support, faster 68000, improved chipset implementation..

01 November 2011, 01:05	#22
Photon Moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Eksjö / Sweden Posts: 5,602	Yep, I think so too. I had an early Minimig before ARM expansions etc, so I may over-exaggerate 'compatibility'. If it now is close to Amiga hardware compatibility, perhaps some WHDLoad test version could be set up to find any discrepancies in WHDLoad itself. But if it's predictably in specific slaves and other 68000 slaves work fine, you'd need new slaves or a way of converting slaves to um meet in the middle. Your best bet for that is to post a request in the WHDLoad forum, I think and see if someone can help you.

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