BestWB 1.1

[gulliver]

@Tarzin

I have nearly finished a new update that will contain a couple of new features.

@Amicol

You can manually choose which icons you want for other partitions, and replace them yourself. What ClassicWB does is that it holds a lot of extra default icons "just in case". This is not efficient from a memory point of view.

Anyway, I already have in early working stages a plug-in (it installs on top of BestWB) that will catter high end Amiga systems, so that things like that can be done for users that have plenty of ram to use.

[Amicol]

Yeh, I know gulliver. Just can't find the relevant icon on the Storage disk.

Great news about the plug-in for high end Amigas, look forward to the update

[blatboy]

Loving BestWB!

Thanks Gulliver!

[Vojo]

Originally Posted by Tarzin

I've installed it on my A1200 with GoADF in 2 minutes.

Sorry for offtop, but as a author of the GoADF I'm happy to read it

[gulliver]

@blatboy

No problem mate.
Thank you for letting me know you enjoy it. :-)

@Vojo

Don't worry you are welcome to post.
BTW, GoADF seems to be a great product.

[Firestone]

I got some weird issues on my A3000 with the following setup:

Clean install AmigaOS3.1.4
Installed BestWB1.0
Installed BestWB1.1 update

HW specs:
Amiga3000 with Superkick, kicking 3.1
Blizzard 4030 without FPU
16MB Fastram on motherboard
Cybervision64
Hydra Ethernet


The system will boot on cold boot fine, but as soon as I try to reboot the system, it will try to boot, but just freeze during startup-sequence. No errors, just a blank screen.

I have done some experiments, and it seems to come down to 68030.library and mmu.library.
I these are removed, the system functions just as expected.

On BestWB1.0 which probably contained a lower version of mmulibs, crashes were different. They would result in a guru some times and the powerled would just blink. The system had to be powered off to return to normal state. Impossible to get control over the system without cutting the power. This is the case with 1.1 also.

Any ideas?

Anyway, thanks for making a such clean package with no extra stuff we don't need!

EDIT:
Found some information that may help in the releasenotes of mmulibs....

Release 46.17
-------------
	- The ColdReboot() patch of the mmu.library triggered a
	  full coldstart on A3000 boards, erasing all resident
	  modules, including LoadModule. This has been fixed.
	  Note, however, that the A3000 SuperKickstart support
	  has one bug that erraneously reserves 512K of RAM
	  space with the mmu.library loaded. If you use LoadModule,
	  add the option "HeaderForwards" to make it working.
	- MuForce was bumped to 46.2 and fixes one access error
	  in its Alert() patch.

Tried to add HEADERFORWARDS-option to LoadModule in startup-sequence, but no change.


EDIT 19.july:
Digged more into the problem, and the problem is when setpatch is runned for the second time (for example after reboot no 2) and the 68030.library support-code is already loaded.
I have sent the author of mmulib an email about this.

Removed 68030.library and mmu.library for now. System works like a charm, but I'm missing MMU-support.
I guess the problem is mmulib-related, and not BestWB-related.

[ajack]

Hi Gulliver,

Will there be a similar package for AmigaOS 3.2? I can't use the Amiga unless BetterWB, or BestWB is installed.

I tried emailing you from our last communication, the email address bounced (kurq@y****o.com).

Hope to hear from you soon.

[Jope]

Just look at the contents of the pack, and install the parts you need manually from aminet while you wait. ;-)

[BLUELiGHT]

Originally Posted by ajack

Will there be a similar package for AmigaOS 3.2?

Gulliver answered this question just a few days ago: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...2&postcount=52

[sean_sk]

Originally Posted by ajack

I can't use the Amiga unless BetterWB, or BestWB is installed.

Really?? I'm assuming that's a bit of an exaggeration, or hyperbolically expressing how much you appreciate Gulliver’s work.