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Title: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: Ratte on February 03, 2012, 11:52:42 AM
Very strange problem here ...

My setup works perfect, but "only" OS8.1 fails.
All other OSes from 7.1 up to 8.0 are working.

Setup:
ShapeShifter 3.11
MacOS 8.0
Quadra900 ROM-File
A4000 + Apollo4060 128MB / 68060 rev.6

From my memories, OS8.1 worked fine on my MKII060 (years ago ...).

Is this problem known?
Any workarounds or hints?

Thanx in advance.
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: klapdeur on February 03, 2012, 02:42:49 PM
osx 8.1 doesnt work shapeshifter can go up to 8.0 its running here fine on my a4000 and a1200 with rtg and cd-rom supported.
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: zipper on February 03, 2012, 03:48:03 PM
On a 060 the 060 -specific caches are best to switch off for instance with http://main.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/wb/SystemPrefs.lha ; ss docs say that 8.1 should work. I never got past 7.6.1.
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: mechy on February 03, 2012, 03:58:46 PM
Quote from: Ratte;678936
Very strange problem here ...

My setup works perfect, but "only" OS8.1 fails.
All other OSes from 7.1 up to 8.0 are working.

Setup:
ShapeShifter 3.11
MacOS 8.0
Quadra900 ROM-File
A4000 + Apollo4060 128MB / 68060 rev.6

From my memories, OS8.1 worked fine on my MKII060 (years ago ...).

Is this problem known?
Any workarounds or hints?

Thanx in advance.


8.1 does work on fusion.

Mech
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: stefcep2 on February 06, 2012, 01:12:08 AM
Shapeshifter works with 8.1 on a CS II 68060.

You need to install 8.0 "for any mac" first.  Also there was a "setfpuexceptions off" command that i had to have in my startup-sequence.

8.1 does work but it is significantly slower than 8.0, which is much slower than 7.6 and slower still than 7.5.5.  There is a 7.5.5 out there skinned to look like 8.  I used that. It flies on a 68060, and really you're not missing much functionality:  I think most stuff that ran on 68k 8 ran on 68k 7.5.5.
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: Ratte on April 14, 2012, 06:16:37 PM
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=509790&postcount=10

thanx for the setfpuexceptions hint .. helped here
but not ss3.11 ... its running under fusion3.2

i still have to check ss3.12 and basiliskii
Title: Re: Shapeshifter3.11 + OS8.1 + Apollo4060 = fail?!
Post by: Motormouth on April 15, 2012, 10:05:59 PM
MacOS definitely does not support superscalar mode in the 68060.