WHDLoad Errors: Exception "Line 1111 Emulator"

[vext01]

Hi,

So I have been upgrading my Amiga 600 in the hope that I can HD load some games. On top of my stock A600 I have a 1MB trapdoor memory upgrade and a Kipper2k 4MB fastram upgrade. Should be more than enough, right?

Under workbench the memory shows up as: 981736 graphics ram, 3950928 other ram. Sounds about right.

However, very few games seem to load under WHDload. Take for example turrican 2. The factor 5 intro screen runs, but then we crash. Here is what I get under varying memory configurations:

Only 4MB fast:
Exception "Line 1111 Emulator" ($E02C) at $3F536 occurred.

Both 4MB fast ram and 2MB trap (same as above):
Exception "Line 1111 Emulator" ($E02C) at $3F536 occurred.

Neither RAM upgrade:
Failed to allocate shadow mem.

Other games fail with similar memory-based errors. For example backlash fails in exactly the same way.

My A600 runs Kickstart 37.350 and Workbench 38.35.

I have not been able to find much on the net about this and I don't see any mention on the whdload support page. I have look at the switches mentioned in there (NoCache, NoVBRMove, NoAutoVec, PAL/NTSC, NoMMU) but i don't think i need to change those from the default.

Does anyone have any idea why this might be?

Thanks

[BarryB]

Try NoVBRMove, my Microbotics M1230 did that, only way to get it running was use NoVBRMove, the side effect is the QUIT key won't work

[vext01]

Hmmm. My WHDLoad install does not recognise NoVBRMove. Maybe I need to upgrade.

I'm using version 17.1

[vext01]

Just upgraded to 17.2. Now the intro screen does not load.

NoVBRMove does not seem to be a valid config option. If you put that in S:WHDLoad.prefs you get a parse error.

[Retro-Nerd]

NoVBRMove is no valid global tooltype. You could also try NoMemReverse, just remove the ";" in whdload.prefs.

[kipper2k]

Hi,

If you have a memcheck program run it to see if RAM reports errors

[vext01]

I am using a 4GB flash drive.

I see there is this 'max transfer' bug. Perhaps this is it. Although I cant see where this can be changed in HDToolbox.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54871

[BarryB]

NoVBRMove needs to be set in the icon for the game! Another example of how we 'assume' people know what you're on about!!

[vext01]

For the record, I have tried setting NoVBRMove as a tool type of the individual game.

[vext01]

I tried a few different max transfer values (it was 0xffffff). By this method you can get some diffrernt error messages such as:

Exception "Address Error" ($F00C)
PC = $368D0
Read from $43D9

Bleh, no idea.

Sleep time.

[jimbob]

Hi vext01, I guess this is the memory you got from me on Amibay you're having trouble with. I sent you a couple of PMs about it over there. I think you could be having intermittent contact problems with the piggyback socket.

Before I sent it I gave it a few hundred runs through the memory checker in the "memutils" package on aminet with no problem. See if it still passes that test as a place to start -

http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/MemUtil

A better test might be the package memcheck -

http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/MemCheckBH

It can tell you if a specific memory location is repeatedly faulty. I think that the addresses of your faults are in chip RAM though. That makes me think it's a problem transferring chip to/from fast. Possible cause is poor contact.

If it turns out the card is bad though, you can send it back. I'll swap it for my other one.

[vext01]

Hi,

Indeed I am using the kipper2k ram board I bought from you. However, I don't believe this to be the problem, since I still get the "emulator 1111" error *without* the fastram board installed (using only the 1MB trapdoor installed).

That said I will run some memory tests (when I find some time).

Cheers

[alexh]

Originally Posted by vext01

I tried a few different max transfer values (it was 0xffffff).

After setting the max transfer setting to 0xFE00 you must re-install the CF card as writes with the previous setting almost certainly will have corrupted files.

[Amiga1992]

I did the maxtransfer fix because I was getting a lot of these errors. After re-installing the CF card I would still get a lot of these.

I also have a Microbotics so I should try that VBR move fix. But some games don't even work in my A600+ACA620 (Turrican 2)

[vext01]

That's a shame. Perhaps I should just do the floppy emulation hack that surfaced recently:
http://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com/

Probably easier.

[alexh]

This is not the official WHDload support page!

http://whdload.de/games/Turrican2.html

Originally Posted by whdload.de

If you have problems with this installation please try first to get a newer
version of this package from the WHDLoad's WWW-Page. If that doesn't help try
some Tooltypes like NOCACHE, NOAUTOVEC, NOVBRMOVE, NOMMU, PAL or NTSC. If
that also doesn't succeeds inform the author via the Bug-Report-Form which
can be accessed on the WHDLoad's WWW-Page.

Try the various tooltypes, try the v1.7 slave? If neither help then report a bug on their bug-tracker with as much details as you can (which version of WHDload, which slave, what tool types in your slave icon, what kickstart version you have, your startup-sequence etc. etc.)

http://mantis.whdload.de/

You are much more likely to get a solution there.

If you can easily updated to Kickstart 3.1 v40.63 that might improve your compatibility?