x-bench

[Lurch]

Anyone been able to get x-bench to work with an Apollo 060 or any 060?

I get the well known dreaded software error with #800000020 :-(

[Lurch]

Hi Jim, will take a look. Not sure what version I downloaded but it was linked from your site.

[Lurch]

0.94F_R2 - So I downloaded this one from Aminet instead of a 20 at the end I get #800000004.

Will keep trying, is there any patches it doesn't like?

[Lurch]

So I can get partial success running it from a no startup-sequence boot.

First I run the following:

Assign >NIL: xb: Work:Xbench
Assign >NIL: xbtemp: work:xbench/temp

Then change into the xbench folder and run xinit.exe which brings up the registration screen which counts down and then I get a dark blue screen for a minute and then the Amiga reboots.

Still get the software error when running it straight from WB.

[Lurch]

Gave up, just wont run :-/ Moving on to something else :-)

[Lurch]

Will give it a go :-)

[Lurch]

The Voodoo card is causing it to crash, wont switch to AGA.
A shame as I was looking for another option as WHDLoad doesn't work too well with Voodoo/RTG. All games work with Voodooint=No but the Amiga runs like a dog.

Will have to workout away to have a boot option to switch between RTG/AGA before WB loads.

Back to the drawing board, was hoping x-bench would load before WB. But it looks like it needs WB in the background.

[Lurch]

Ok so now we know why. Thanx.

Xbench doesn't need the workbench to be loaded in background but AmigaOs is indeed needed.

When I execute xbench from the startup-sequence the grey screen of workbench appears (the one before the icons are displayed) first then xbench.

Of course that screen just before xbench loads is in whatever display mode I have workbench set to. So if I'm using RTG it will display in RTG.

So I have to set workbench to AGA for xbench to work.