Amiga 600 - XBench weirdness

[RedWarrior]

Yes, it's me again....

Installed WHDLoad. (Yay!)
Installed X-bench (Woohoo!)
Extracted a bunch of demos & games that are supposedly WhdLoad ready. (Hoorah!)
Even slightly fixed my fragile kayboard ribbon cable and can now press Enter (OMG yay!)
X-Bench Loads (Wow!!)
Selecting Launcher - Black screen
Selecting Explorer - Black screen
Shell - Probably black screen (who ever uses this?)
Setup- Black Screen...

Tried reinstalling... Nothing.

I knew I was silly to get my hopes up again... None of these emoticons can express my frustration.

Any suggestions for what might be putting X-bench in a bad mood?

Thanks again. =)

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

No idea what XBench is. Why do you need it? Try starting more simple - do the games run when you click on their icons?

[AmiDude]

Here we go again.... :crazy:

[paul1981]

Maybe there's a solution in this eab thread:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=65633

I'd love to help, but I've never used XBench before. Does it have any specific requirements mentioned in the docs such as libraries or assign's or anything?

[RedWarrior]

A few (very few) of the games are loading, only from their icons (thanks for that idea!). None of the demos so far.

I thought XBench was how most people organised and launched their games? Open to alternatives if they actually work! =)

I'm getting a lot of "Cannot allocate ShadowRam" or "Cannot allocate ExpRam" and other more cryptic error messages when I try to run these apps.

I'm wondering if maybe my kickstart files aren't named properly or something...

I got some games to "kind of" work- Bubble Bobble loads, but all the sprites are jumbled up so instead of animations with how many points I got, it's Death heads...

Likewise with R-type, all the text is garbage characters...

Does an A600 need to load an older kickstart to run these kinds of games? And what is the naming convention for kickstart files? I have a Kick1.3 Rom... I have all of them actually, but I'm noticing various names for the same files, and no clear explanation.

I've googled this as well, to try and limit this comedic and sad adventure for your benefit too, guys

Also- why does WHDLoad allocate a different exit key each game? Sometimes it's the Help key, Sometimes it's F10, and just for fun, it's often PrintScreen (which doesn't even exist on an A600)...

Thanks again!