Posts by air_ii

Just an update - I had some time to troubleshoot. I purchased 3.1.4 physical ROM chips and tried to narrow down the issue of not being able to load Workbench. So it didn't load with physical ROM either (I did fresh install). It did from the floppy though.

To cut the long story short, it turned out that the root cause of many problems with 3.1.4 was the max transfer value for the boot partition. I'm not used to having to confirm input fields with Enter (20 years of not using Amiga), so apparently max transfer I entered for that partition (PFS3) was not in fact set. After setting it to $1FE00, Workbench loaded fine, WHDLoad accepted ROM files, PCMCIA instability issues persist though. I am able to download some files via FTP if I hot plug the network card after boot sequence, so I guess I'll try to live with that for now and stick to 3.1.4.

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Games mostly use PAL or NTSC, so you configure those, or you use the live config during the game to adjust settings.

Our of curiosity, does overscan affect mode selection?

Just to clarify, this is with kick 3.1 loaded via maprom functionality.

So, i installed wb 3.1 and there is instability with pcmcia card. Extracting a WHDLoad lha archive to ram crashes the system. No issues without the card. WHDLoad won't start with the pcmcia plugged in - it gives a yellow alert.

Hi, I purchased OS 3.1.4 last week for my A1200. Yesterday I received my ACA 1211 so I started setting things up. However, there always seem to be some issues with this combination (ACA 1211 + Kickstart 3.1.4). Here is a list:

Stock Kickstart 3.0 No Maprom

This was my first attempt at installing 3.1.4. I installed everything using the 3.1.4 install disk + the additional A1200 modules disk. It installed ok, booted fine (I used PFS3AIO with direct access to partition my CF card).

However, ShowConfig shows over 1.6MB of RAM at $C00000 address, which should be 1.5MB (that's what it shows using Kick 3.0 or 3.1) and I got weird crashes from time to time. Directory Opus 4 would always cause Software Failure, if I booted with startup sequence (it would start without SS).

Another issue I had was with WHDLoad. It would say that the kickstart file used for games is incorrect (40.068), even though this same file works with Kick 3.0 or Kick 3.1.

The next issues is with PCMCIA Ethernet card. It refused to work. If I hot plug when fully booted, it would either crash the system, or at least cause Miami to crash when opened. The LoadModule ROMUPDATE command would always crash the system with the PCMCIA card present.

Kickstart 3.1.4 via Maprom

I did a clean install of Workbench 3.1.4 using the Install disk. Everything installed just fine, however LoadWB would always cause Software Failure (80000006), regardless, if I booted from the CF card or Workbench floppy. ShowConfig still showed 1.6MB at $C00000.

Now to the PCMCIA Network card - it did not crash the system, but with Kickstart 3.1.4 loaded via Maprom, it would not detect my CF card (I guess it's IDE that is not detected at all - not enough address space left for some reason?). So it's either CF drive of PCMCIA card, which renders this method useless (it was already useless when I could not get Workbench to load at all).

Interestingly, with the PCMCIA card present (without the CF card), I was able to boot to Workbench 3.1.4 from the floppy. So perhaps it's an issue with one of icon/workbench.library, but it's weird, as I only did clean install from floppies.

WHDLoad still insists kickstart files are corrupt (perhaps they are loaded in the incorrect memory space (after $D7FFFF?).

So, I guess Kickstart 3.1.4 does not play nice with ACA 1211, which I guess forces me to go back to 3.1.

Hi, just to let you know, I could not get 40.068 to work either. I got it working using 40.069 rom file.

Ok, so I did a test with my LG OLED TV and it handled default (800x600) resolution without issues. So, I guess, it's this Chinese display that's causing trouble :).

Anyway, one additional comment is that I only get sound via HDMI when I set output frequency to 96kHz (tested both with the aforementioned Iiyama display, as well as my Denon AV Receiver. It works though, so no issues, just wondering why neither 44.1 nor 48kHz seem to work.

Sorry, forgot to mention - it's Iiyama ProLite x2472hd. I'll check tomorrow with my OLED TV.

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The standard config is a simple 60Hz 800x600 mode. I find it very unusual that your monitor does not like that - what type of monitor is that?

Yeah, it is strange, especially that Windows is able to display 800x600. I did test all 3 preconfigured 800x600 modes, but none of them worked. Moreover, when I dumped EDID on Windows, it did list 800x600@72Hz, but this mode is not working with the Indivision.

Hi, since support forums rarely have positive feedback, I wanted to share my very initial impressions in the products (it came in today).

I purchased it together with ACA1211, so I went ahead and plugged both in at the same time - taking into account I'd have to reverse that in case of problems.

So I powered everything up, connected my HDMI display and there was the first problem - the display did turn on, but said the signal was out of range. I though - uh oh... So I connected my old external scandoubler back to check if the system was booting. Luckily, it was, so I downloaded adf with the Indivision tool, plugged it into Gotek drive, loaded EDID information from the display and switched display mode to 1920x1080. It turned out that the preloaded was not in line with any of the EDID modes.

After that, I got crisp image via HDMI (day to night difference in terms of quality vs my old scandoubler) and now I'm playing to get the most out of it.

So far so good, both products seem to be working properly. The Indivision does get warm, so I have to reposition by SD card, but other than that - very happy with the purchase! My only suggestion at this point would be to somehow detect on first power on, if the selected output resolution (and refresh rate) is within the display's specs, if EDID is indeed available.

I'll drop an update after this weekend.