Dune2 in WinUAE with Aros ROM

gilgamesh · 17 January 2012, 00:38

Ok, I tried Dune 2. Works with KS3.0 but not Aros. (WinUAE 2.3.3, Aros 20120115)

Disks 1&2 in FDDs: WinUAE loops forever with Aros, when it should ask for disk 5
Disks 1,2,3&5, WinUAE plays split second of intro and reboots. No dump.

Toni Wilen · 17 January 2012, 19:53

You should know that only listing name of the program is as useless as not listing it at all

(Original? Which region if there was multiple releases? Crack? Which crack? and so on..)

Also make sure you do not use A500 like memory configuration (1M or less) when booting non-trackloading programs because currently m68k aros needs more memory than AOS.

Galahad/FLT · 17 January 2012, 20:10

Dune 2 uses AmigaDOS for loading/running.

gilgamesh · 17 January 2012, 20:10

Dune II (pre-release)(M3)[cr DNX]

A1200 standard config, only 24bit addressing unchecked to make it the same machine as for KS3.0

I hope that's the info you need. More memory does not help.

Toni Wilen · 18 January 2012, 11:17

I didn't find that version but final release triggers audio.device crash. (which was fixed yesterday, now mouse cursor appears, without any other graphics..)

btw, remember to use -seriallog command line parameter, it enables logging of AROS serial debug output.

Toni Wilen · 28 January 2012, 18:16

Game shows black screen because struct Bitmap is using RTG like structure (no real plane pointers) even when using native planar mode.

AROS of course does support normal bitmap structures but driver code assumes all graphics drivers are RTG-like (Amiga chipset driver is very special case, extra code needed just to handle this. I am sure most other AROS coders are annoyed

) Anyway, some changes needed.

This most likely breaks many (sort of) system friendly games that open standard intuition screen but write directly to screen's bitmap.

gilgamesh · 30 January 2012, 14:35

Aros aim is to be compatible with AmigaOS 3.1. Why would somebody in his clear mind get annoyed if you made it more compatible? M68k branch is the best thing that could happen to Aros. Kickstart replacement will soon be the most widespread Aros distro.

Ezrec · 30 January 2012, 18:52

Toni, can you remind me to do this when I finish the AHCI and printer.device support?

(I post this there, just to let people know that I *do* plan to fix this, but it's in the queue behind outstanding AROS bounties I'm signed up for)

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17 January 2012, 19:53	#2
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,567	You should know that only listing name of the program is as useless as not listing it at all (Original? Which region if there was multiple releases? Crack? Which crack? and so on..) Also make sure you do not use A500 like memory configuration (1M or less) when booting non-trackloading programs because currently m68k aros needs more memory than AOS.

17 January 2012, 20:10	#3
Galahad/FLT Going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: United Kingdom Age: 50 Posts: 9,016	Dune 2 uses AmigaDOS for loading/running.

17 January 2012, 20:10	#4
gilgamesh Linux snob Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 997	Dune II (pre-release)(M3)[cr DNX] A1200 standard config, only 24bit addressing unchecked to make it the same machine as for KS3.0 I hope that's the info you need. More memory does not help.

18 January 2012, 11:17	#5
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,567	I didn't find that version but final release triggers audio.device crash. (which was fixed yesterday, now mouse cursor appears, without any other graphics..) btw, remember to use -seriallog command line parameter, it enables logging of AROS serial debug output.

28 January 2012, 18:16	#6
Toni Wilen WinUAE developer Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hämeenlinna/Finland Age: 49 Posts: 26,567	Game shows black screen because struct Bitmap is using RTG like structure (no real plane pointers) even when using native planar mode. AROS of course does support normal bitmap structures but driver code assumes all graphics drivers are RTG-like (Amiga chipset driver is very special case, extra code needed just to handle this. I am sure most other AROS coders are annoyed ) Anyway, some changes needed. This most likely breaks many (sort of) system friendly games that open standard intuition screen but write directly to screen's bitmap.

30 January 2012, 14:35	#7
gilgamesh Linux snob Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Monkey Island Posts: 997	Aros aim is to be compatible with AmigaOS 3.1. Why would somebody in his clear mind get annoyed if you made it more compatible? M68k branch is the best thing that could happen to Aros. Kickstart replacement will soon be the most widespread Aros distro.

30 January 2012, 18:52	#8
Ezrec Registered User Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 31	Toni, can you remind me to do this when I finish the AHCI and printer.device support? (I post this there, just to let people know that I do plan to fix this, but it's in the queue behind outstanding AROS bounties I'm signed up for)

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