Catweasel IV Plus and Winuae configuration problem

[Rakki]

Do you guys know if there are good documentation available for configuring Catweasel IV Plus with WinUAE? Searching this forum discovered something but nothing really useful. Installing this card is a bit challenging but I need it for many purposes and reading and writing amiga disks is one of them.

Catweasel is installed on Windows XP with drivers on the CD. I haven't tried imagetool yet because my original point was use CW as df0 or df1 but it seems that df0 is unsupported due of driver support. I tried following instructions. Io.bat didn't returned nothing. How to continue from this point?

Windows 2000 or Windows XP
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download and unpack this

doubleclick io.bat

You should see following output:
(MEM, IO and IRQ are system-specific)

Name: PCI Simple Communications Controller
Device has the following resources reserved:
 MEM : e9001000-e9001fff
 IO  : 9000-90ff
 IRQ : 11

add "catweasel_io=0x????" to the end of WinUAE configuration
file and replace ???? with first number of IO-line (9000 in this case)

<clip>
input.4.mouse.1.button.0=JOY1_FIRE_BUTTON.0
input.4.mouse.1.button.1=JOY1_2ND_BUTTON.0
input.4.mouse.1.button.2=JOY1_3RD_BUTTON.0
catweasel_io=0x9000
<end clip>

WARNING: PCI IO may change if you add, remove or move your
PCI cards. Using wrong io-address may crash your system!

[prowler]

Hi Rakki,

Instead of using IO.bat to get that information, have a look at the resources assigned to the Catweasel card using the Device Manager. Look for the Catweasel under Floppy disk controllers, double-click on it and open the Resources tab. This can also tell you if the device is working properly.

[Rakki]

Originally Posted by prowler

Hi Rakki,

Instead of using IO.bat to get that information, have a look at the resources assigned to the Catweasel card using the Device Manager. Look for the Catweasel under Floppy disk controllers, double-click on it and open the Resources tab. This can also tell you if the device is working properly.

Thanks. Under floppy disk controllers I have only standard floppy disk controller. Only Invidual Computer Devices contains Catweasel controller PCI that has I/O A000. A1200 configuration has now catweasel configuration line in the end of file but I don't know how to use Catweasel on WinUAE? Below are some files as attachment that might help to understand my configuration.

catweasel_io=0xA000

Catweasel configuration with cw_config.exe (shipped with driver cd)

C:\Program Files\Catweasel>cw_config.exe
found 1 config devices:
 a000:a0c0 [CATWEASEL V2.6.0.0] unit 0, device '\\.\CAT2_F0'
 Hardware Revision: mk4
 Clockmodes: 14mhz 28mhz 56mhz
 dual ported memory: No
 Joystick Support: Joystick Mouse
 Keyboard Support: Amiga
 Sid Support: Yes (0x400 bytes FIFO)

found 1 drives:
 a000:a0c0 [CATWEASEL V2.6.0.0] unit 0, device '\\.\CAT2_F0'
found 0 SIDs:
found 0 Keyboards:
found 2 Joystick Ports:
 0000:0000 [] unit 0, device '\\.\C64_JOYSTICK_0'
 type of controller that is connected: 1 [c64 joystick]
 emubits: 00
 autofire speed joy button 1: 0
 autofire speed joy button 2: 0
 0000:0000 [] unit 1, device '\\.\C64_JOYSTICK_1'
 type of controller that is connected: 1 [c64 joystick]
 emubits: 00
 autofire speed joy button 1: 0
 autofire speed joy button 2: 0

C:\Program Files\Catweasel>

Imagetool 3.2 reads disks without problems but I wonder what is ideal RPM for writing amiga disks?

[Toni Wilen]

Catweasel ZorroII emulation works automatically in WinUAE (check Catweasel checkbox in Misc panel, CW is detected if you can tick/untick it).

There is no direct DFx: support (and probably never will be, no firmware support)

[Rakki]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

Catweasel ZorroII emulation works automatically in WinUAE (check Catweasel checkbox in Misc panel, CW is detected if you can tick/untick it).

There is no direct DFx: support (and probably never will be, no firmware support)

Ok, thanks. Yes I can tick / untick it so it works. Just wondering how to use it with Amiga software if there are no direct DFx support? Where I can find examples or further reading?

[Toni Wilen]

Originally Posted by Rakki

Ok, thanks. Yes I can tick / untick it so it works. Just wondering how to use it with Amiga software if there are no direct DFx support? Where I can find examples or further reading?

multidisk.device. http://www.winuae.net/cw.html