PPC Support in FS-UAE

[Romanujan]

2) Ping is, in fact, not really important (this is just a diagnostic tool). The most important for me is Samba (or some other network filesystem I could setup a server on the host Linux OS), as there is no way to mount the directory as a hard drive. I guess I will have to look for some other solution...

3) In fact, scsi0_cpuboard, not cpuboard_scsi0 But thank you, I didn't knew about the numbers.

[amigafreak68k]

Sorry, I wrote it on highway from brain

[Foul]

is there a way to mount a directory under OS4 like OS3 ?

if i add :

hard_drive_1 = /media/Amiga/Downloads/
hard_drive_1_label = Downloads

OS4 refuse to boot..

[Romanujan]

No.

[Foul]

ok

so second question: what is the best/easily method to transfert files under OS4 ?

[Romanujan]

I am using the OS3 to access the hardfile and transfer the files in/out of the OS4. Some people create ISO images and mount them in the emulator. You can probably also use ADFs.

I have tried to use http://aminet.net/comm/tcp/smbfs-os4.lha to access my network shares, but without success. I havent tried http://aminet.net/comm/www/webdav-handler.lha yet - maybe someday...

[Foul]

First method seems easy to me .. thx

[mikettl]

Hey guys,

I'm new to Amiga emulations and like to get a PPC environment running. Therefore please don't kill me for that question:
Please where can I get the rom images for the PPC boards?

I browsed the internet but don't find the approproate one. Or is there any copyright to be attended?

Many thanks and sorry for the eventually stupid question...

[amigafreak68k]

Look in "the Zone" and sestch for "accellerator_roms.zip"

[mikettl]

Hey amigafreak68k,

many thanks for your very fast answer.
Unfortunately when I select "The Zone!": access denied :-(. I guess I'm either too new in this forum or too less active...

Is there any other way? Thx, guys....

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by mikettl

Unfortunately when I select "The Zone!": access denied :-(. I guess I'm either too new in this forum or too less active...

To access the zone, please see here: http://eab.abime.net/faq.php?faq=vb_faq

[LeftyFPB]

I've been trying to get PPC support working in FS-UAE. I have the appropriate files installed in the appropriate folders (cyberstormppc.rom in Kickstarts, qemu in Plugins). So far, whenever I try to boot an emulation using the A4000 (PPC) setup, I get a guru meditation screen.

Is there a specific cyberstorm rom I'm supposed to use? I downloaded the accelerators zip from the zone and used version 44_71. I'm using FS-UAE 2.5.27 to boot a 3.9 hdf with WarpUP 5.1 installed on it. The hdf boots when I use a non-PPC A4000 setup. What else can I try, as far as settings go?

[sbergmann]

* I am on Fedora 21
* I use the home:FrodeSolheim:devel repository for binary packages
* I built qemu-uae.so from source following the instructions in the respective README
* I created an ISO image from my copy of the Amiga OS 4.1 CD using dd
* I use the boot floppy ADF found on the Amiga OS 4.1 CD
* I set up a configuration as shown in the attachment
* Upon boot I get an "Please insert volume AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition in any drive" system request

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by sbergmann

* Upon boot I get an "Please insert volume AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition in any drive" system request

This is *probably* the same issue as reported here: http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...4&postcount=11 (workaround included). Use workaround or wait for next development version

[sbergmann]

I added a line with "accelerator_rom = cyberstormppc.rom" to my configuration. Now I do not get the "Please insert volume AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition in any drive" system request anymore. Instead the screen stays black (waited > 10 minutes) while the fs-uae process is at 100% CPU.

[FrodeSolheim]

Please attach fs-uae.log.txt

[sbergmann]

Here you go. Thanks for looking into this!

[sbergmann]

Updated to FS-UAE 2.5.30. I can confirm that the workaround from http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...4&postcount=11 is no longer needed.

However, I am still stuck with a black screen.

[sbergmann]

I have more information: I removed the "hard_drive_0 = AmigaOS41.hdf" line from my configuration file. Instead of a black screen this got me a green screen telling me that the qemu plugin could not be loaded.

The logfile revealed that FS-UAE expects the plugin in /usr/bin/libqemu-uae.so. I copied it there from ~/FS-UAE/Plugins/qemu-uae/quemu-uae.so which allowed me to boot from the AmigaOS 4.1 CD. Without the "hard_drive_0 = AmigaOS41.hdf" line in the configuration, however, I have no target for the installation.

Adding the "hard_drive_0 = AmigaOS41.hdf" line back causes the black screen problem again.

I then added "hard_drive_0_controller = ide0" and was able to boot from the AmigaOS 4.1 CD and find the AmigaOS41.hdf harddisk on the SCSI controller. Weird.

The installation completes successfully. However, FS-UAE won't boot from AmigaOS41.hdf. I removed the ADF and ISO from the configuration and just get the kickstart animation.

[FrodeSolheim]

Originally Posted by sbergmann

The logfile revealed that FS-UAE expects the plugin in /usr/bin/libqemu-uae.so.

This is just one of the locations where FS-UAE looks for it though, I'll soon make some clearer guidelines for where the plugins should be put.

As for the hard drive problem try adding (and re-install with):

hard_drive_0_type = rdb