WinUAE 1.4.3 public beta series

[billy]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Still can't duplicate and new dump file is identical. I am confused. Looks like I have to test on XP later..

A bit more information...
Tested on MS Vista Enterprise, problem persists using the A3000 Qstart config.

However when disabling JIT the symptom changes to this (XP/Vista):
o Launch WinUAE b4
o A3000 Quickstart Model: A3000 | Config: 1.4 ROM, 2MB Chip + 8MB Fast
o Select Disk image - SuperKickstart [symptom occcurs w/all adf's tested]

* Disable JIT in CPU and FPU

o Press Start
o Under Kickstart 1.3, click Floppy
o When KS screeen appears, Soft Reset with CTRL+AmiL+AmiR

+ System will reset to the KS 1.3 splash no matter how may time you perform the Soft Reset

o Hard Reset with CTRL+AmiL+ALT+AmiR
o Under Kickstart 2.x, click Floppy
o When KS screeen appears, Soft Reset with CTRL+AmiL+AmiR

+ Yellow screen is seen, then same KS 2.0 screen appears.

o When KS screeen appears, Soft Reset with CTRL+AmiL+AmiR

+ Kickstart selection screen appears.

o Under Kickstart 2.x, click Floppy
o When KS screeen appears, Soft Reset with CTRL+AmiL+AmiR

+ Yellow screen is NOT seen, and Kickstart selection screen appears.

[alanwall]

no was not a beta so probaly should not have posted here

[Mclane]

Using B4.

I default to the quickstart screen and have noticed that if I choose a machine say A500+ and hit start I cannot then add a cartridge rom file unless I quit Winuae and start again, well I can choose one but it does not work. If I then choose a machine type and pick a cartridge rom straight away I can swap the cart roms around say from AR3 to HRTMON without the need of a complete shutdown, just resetting the virtual Amiga kicks in the selected cart rom.

This happens regardless of machine type picked at the Quickstart.

Don't know if this is what's meant to happen or not?

[Carcenomy]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Crash = "out of bounds" error? (dialog and also in winuaelog.txt) It means your HDF was smaller than size specified in partition table (see below)

Problem is A590 install disk, HDToolbox that comes with A590 install disk only understands SCSI-1 INQUIRY format and SCSI emulation uses SCSI-2 which means "Read Configuration from Drive" fails to work. You need to manually adjust drive parameters until drive size is smaller than size of HDF.

I guess using SCSI-1-style inquiry response when using A590/A2091 should fix this problem without any side-effects.

"out of bounds" crash will be fixed soon.

Nice, all seems to be working now. I'd do some more thorough testing but I don't have a videocard for my Windows box any longer

Keep up the good work Toni, it's much appreciated.

[Toni Wilen]

Some random news.. Popular feature request(s) finally implemented.

- mount archive/plain file as an emulated harddrive. All usual archive formats supported. read-only. ("hot swapping" would be really nice extra feature but I don't know how removable media is supposed to work in filesystem level)

- added lha (lzh) support (archive harddrive feature without lha-support would have been quite useless)

- archive handling code was completely rewritten, it was really ugly mess of pointless code duplication..

- [new] added lzx support

ADDED: new compression helper functions also allow semi-pointless features like archive as a virtual hardfile (or even real directory as a virtual hardfile..) Need only "FFS" emulation to create virtual memory image of hardfile on the fly (files will be "loaded" in hardfile image only when any of blocks allocated for file is first accessed for best performance)

(not totally pointless if you want to play with IDE/SCSI hardware emulation without real hardfiles)

Beta 5 ETA: weekend/next week.

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1430b5.zip

ROM rescan needed again.

Beta 5:

- JIT on/off switching via uae-configuration re-enables direct mode This time it really should work as designed.
- video recording sound pitch change fix (side-effects possible..)
- random FPU fixes from Aranym (which btw, isn't feature complete either, at least float to integer clamping is missing)
- rom scanner uses SHA-1 now (instead of CRC32)
- archive as a harddrive emulation. Data is decompressed on the fly. Only directory tree is allocated in memory during mount-phase. "file not found error" will be returned if decompression fails (corrupt archive?) Already decompressed files will be left in memory (memory is cheap, repeated decompression can be slow)
- archive support completely rewritten (memory/file leaks possible) Recursive decompression possible (not yet enabled and not fully implemented), not sure if I enable it later or not.. (would enable transparent archives inside archives inside archives etc..)
- work in progress (this is really crazy idea..): xfd (Amiga decompression library) slave library support via separate 68k emulation instance Crazy or very stupid idea, not sure yet.. It would enable full transparent decompression support of nearly every Amiga compression format..
- built-in lha/lzh archive support added
- built-in lzx archive support added (store mode not supported yet)
- "add directory/archive" harddrives: only path is mandatory, volume name (if left empty) is automatically generated from selected path
- added "add archive" harddrive type. Single plain file also accepted.
- real harddrive "safety check" system changed, now all drives are listed (and marked as empty,non-empty or RDB) but drive is not mounted if safety check is not disabled and drive is non-empty.
- disable "add harddrive" on vista without full admin privileges
- harddisk panel directory and archive dragndrop added
- included beta updated rtg.library, fully enables >1024 pixel wide bitmaps (including acceleration), obsoletes picasso96fix. (BR)

[killergorilla]

These are some seriously interesting changes/additions.

Sounds VERY interesting Toni, many thanks.

[Jimbo]

Awesome. Thanks

[turrican3]

thanks for this one toni.
I have a perhaps stupid question? but what must i do with rtg.library, i have the rtgmaster library but not rtg.library and i don't know when rtg.library is used?
Sorry if this is a stupid question

[Mad-Matt]

for if you use p96 rtg

[Mclane]

I initially added the new beta just as I've done every time and it crash dumped, not wishing to just post about it I've been shuffling bits about hoping to find out what was causing it.

After lots of messing around I found that if the rom.key file was anywhere in the Winuae path it caused an immediate crash and dump.

Dunno why, hope it might help some?

Never done this before so I presume its part of the new rom scanning technique

Crash dump as attachment

[Retroplay]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

- video recording sound pitch change fix (side-effects possible..)

Works great.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mclane

I initially added the new beta just as I've done every time and it crash dumped, not wishing to just post about it I've been shuffling bits about hoping to find out what was causing it.

After lots of messing around I found that if the rom.key file was anywhere in the Winuae path it caused an immediate crash and dump.

I don't see how rom.key can cause this crash.. As far as I see only unsupported (basically rar with no winrar/unrar.dll or archiveaccess.dll) or corrupted archive are the only possible reasons. (and this is now fixed)

Do you have any compressed (rar?) archives in your rom path?

[Mclane]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

I don't see how rom.key can cause this crash.. As far as I see only unsupported (basically rar with no winrar/unrar.dll or archiveaccess.dll) or corrupted archive are the only possible reasons. (and this is now fixed)

Do you have any compressed (rar?) archives in your rom path?

No compressed roms of any kind in the rom path, all the rom files are the same ones I've had in there (99% TOSEC named files) and a GVP rom.

Missing the A590/2091 and High end rom?.

The bootlog text does show this as the last entry (only just seen this)

"failed to open archiveaccess.dll"

But the second I put that rom.key file in the roms dir or anywhere in the Winuae directory it causes a crash and dump. The only rar files I have are in a CD32 directory within the Winuae dir but they have been there for at least a year plus.

Not a real problem as I just take the rom.key file out and all is fine.

[Mclane]

Ack...........

Just thought I'd check out the rom.key file and if I try and open it with Winrar, it comes up as a corrupt file but shows a file in it called "Orange 8 (1995)(Abyss).exe" so I now know its not a rom key file at all and as you say a corrupt file. Bloody thing was the exact same size as a real rom.key file too, god knows how that's happened.

The real genuine rom.key file works perfectly.

Many apologies Toni, it only came to light with the new beta.

[thomas]

bsdsocket emulation stops working after a soft reset. I get error "38, Socket operation on non-socket" from smbfs and IBrowse displays a similar message.

[hexaae]

Originally Posted by thomas

bsdsocket emulation stops working after a soft reset. I get error "38, Socket operation on non-socket" from smbfs and IBrowse displays a similar message.

Un-confirmed. Works fine here. Tested after 2 resets: one from WUAE window other using C:Reboot. IB always working.

[Mad-Matt]

just instaed the new beta and rtg lib. im getting an oddity where once the emu is booted , jit is stuck in indirect mode making it slow. I can enable dissable jit to regain control of the options, but after a reset its locked to indirect again unless i do the above again.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Mad-Matt

just instaed the new beta and rtg lib. im getting an oddity where once the emu is booted , jit is stuck in indirect mode making it slow. I can enable dissable jit to regain control of the options, but after a reset its locked to indirect again unless i do the above again.

There must be something in the log..

[Mad-Matt]

sorry, how could i have forgot those

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1430b6.zip

Beta 6:

- rar unpacking double memory deallocation (unrar.dll is still the most stupidly designed unpacking library)
- crash if dearchiver (rar or archiveaccess) was not available
- hardfile filesys loader/relocator sometimes incorrectly allocated code/data space from chip memory
- lha/lzh archive detection fixed
- P96 ram allocation forced indirect JIT mode
- -datapath fixed, overrides paths-panel paths again

- recursive harddrive archive support enabled

Archives inside archive are only unpacked when first accessed for best performance. Tested by creating 200MB zip archive that contained ~250 pre-installed zipped WHDLoad demo slaves. (Note that this can confuse some programs because size of "harddrive" gets bigger and bigger the more archives inside archives are unpacked..)

Original archive is "duplicated" as a directory called <name of archive>.DIR

"file not found" or "empty directory" is returned if decompression fails

In future there may be options to disable recursive archive support and ability to replace original archive file with unpacked directory (without .DIR extension) Another future idea is write access (to separate "diff" directory)


Note: rar archive inside another archive can not be unpacked without archiveaccess.dll (unrar.dll can't do it without temp files and I refuse to use temp files)

[StevenJGore]

Hi Toni,

Thanks for the Beta!

I'm still having problems with ROM recognition though. This is what WinUAE reports as being available:



And here's what is in my ROM directory:



All ROMs are reported correctly with WinUAE 1.4.2a and earlier.

Thanks!
Steve.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by StevenJGore

I'm still having problems with ROM recognition though. This is what WinUAE reports as being available:

Can you run: "fsum.exe -crc32 -sha1 *.* > crc.txt" and attach or email crc.txt file.

fsum can be downloaded from: http://www.slavasoft.com/fsum/

[Mad-Matt]

Great work with the update, previous reported issue fixed, and also the fpu issue with mmulib 040 lib seems fixed too. Thx again

question, what makes High End Winuae become available ?

[StevenJGore]

Can you run: "fsum.exe -crc32 -sha1 *.* > crc.txt" and attach or email crc.txt file.

I don't think it worked?...

; SlavaSoft Optimizing Checksum Utility - fsum 2.52.00337 <www.slavasoft.com>
;
; Generated on 06/23/07 at 18:28:35
;
DENIED ***** crc.txt
7634c61e ?CRC32*fsum.exe
7c414fdc9f3afd80ed3c56aa250e1758a9142f8b ?SHA1*fsum.exe
DENIED ***** NTUSER.DAT
DENIED ***** ntuser.dat.LOG1
DENIED ***** ntuser.dat.LOG2
DENIED ***** NTUSER.DAT{0f69446d-6a70-11db-8eb3-985e31beb686}.TM.blf
DENIED ***** NTUSER.DAT{0f69446d-6a70-11db-8eb3-985e31beb686}.TMContainer00000000000000000001.regtrans-ms
DENIED ***** NTUSER.DAT{0f69446d-6a70-11db-8eb3-985e31beb686}.TMContainer00000000000000000002.regtrans-ms
ca941d48 ?CRC32*ntuser.ini
7894ec01651ff3fcdf9d117f416875bbaef03b6d ?SHA1*ntuser.ini

Running fsum with admin rights produced a blank output file.

Steve.

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by StevenJGore

I don't think it worked?...



Running fsum with admin rights produced a blank output file.

Steve.

Run it in your ROM directory

[StevenJGore]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Run it in your ROM directory

Thanks Toni! See attached text file.

Steve.

[Toni Wilen]

ROM scanner ignored overdumped roms (512k dump of 256k rom), will be fixed in next beta.

[StevenJGore]

Thanks Toni.

[Retroplay]

Not a bug report but.. what is High end WinUAE ?

[rsn8887]

a new beta!
Big thanx to Toni for working so hard on the magic of WinUAE and sharing his betas with this great forum

[hipoonios]

I have the same problem as StevenJGore with latest beta. But the strange thing is when i change back to a previous version i still having problems.

I'm of course using the build in quickstart configs. So its not a problem with my configs.

[Toni Wilen]

http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_1430b7.zip

Beta 7:

- rom scanner detects overdumped roms again
- added "(SK)" to A3000 KS 1.3 ROM name (SuperKickstart disk rip, this version has never been in ROM chip format, only included because it comes with AF)
- removed A4091 boot rom from scan result dialog (NCR SCSI won't be implemented in next version)
- removed add host scsi from advanced chipset (not working)
- added more rom choices to "highend" configuration
- rom scanner didn't write full path to registry (zipped roms)
- command line configuration parameters accept compressed configuration files ("-f myconfigurations.zip\myconfig.uae")
- some dms compressed files failed to decompress and also took very long time to finish
- disk history is updating correctly again
- new rtg.library version number bump. added warning if older library is installed. NOTE: new rtg.library is fully compatible with older (Win)UAE versions.
- disabled CDTV debug logging
- hrtmon works again
- gzip decompression works again

[StevenJGore]

- rom scanner detects overdumped roms again

Thanks Toni, it works fine now. All ROMs reported correctly!

Steve.

[spannernick]

All working here too..

[sink]

forme too

[hexaae]

Mmmh, this beta crashes randomly and often on quit (screen gets closed and everything seems ok, but then...):

Nome evento problema: APPCRASH
Nome applicazione: winuae.exe
Versione applicazione: 1.4.2.0
Timestamp applicazione: 46826b67
Nome modulo con errori: ntdll.dll
Versione modulo con errori: 6.0.6000.16386
Timestamp modulo con errori: 4549bdc9
Codice eccezione: c0000005
Offset eccezione: 00061884
Versione SO: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
ID impostazioni locali: 1040
Informazioni aggiuntive 1: 8d13
Ulteriori informazioni 2: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311
Ulteriori informazioni 3: 8d13
Ulteriori informazioni 4: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311

Dump attached (renamed .txt)

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by hexaae

Mmmh, this beta crashes randomly and often on quit (screen gets closed and everything seems ok, but then...):

Do you use SCSI emulation? (a590/a2091,a3000 or cdtv scsi)

[hexaae]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Do you use SCSI emulation? (a590/a2091,a3000 or cdtv scsi)

No...020, JIT, 882, AGA, chipset extra generic, Misc page: uaescsi.device... I have 1 SYS: hard-file partition (UAE controller) and 4 real Windows dirs (read only) set as MODS: PICS: etc. 'Adv. Chipset' page set as Compatible Settings.

EDIT: I use SFS for the hard-file dh0 partition...

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by hexaae

No...020, JIT, 882, AGA, chipset extra generic, Misc page: uaescsi.device... I have 1 SYS: hard-file partition (UAE controller) and 4 real Windows dirs (read only) set as MODS: PICS: etc. 'Adv. Chipset' page set as Compatible Settings.

EDIT: I use SFS for the hard-file dh0 partition...

I can't duplicate and I am too lazy to try all possible configuration combinations, sorry.