WinUAE

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I couldn't find a more appropriate forum. Is it okay to ask a question about WinUAE here? I mean about the emulation program itself, not necessarily the OS side.

I was curious if there was any change in the operation of the program since 2.x with regard to hard drive detection. I am running the latest version now (2.3.2). I seem to recall that I was once able to mount my REAL AmigaOS formatted IDE drive using my IDE-USB adapter. I could select the drive from a pull-down menu in the hard drive setup section. It no longer appears now and I know I did not have the drive directly connected to my Windows machine's IDE bus before.

One other thing that did change is I am now running Windows 7. The last time the drive was detected, I was on Win XP.


Thanks any for assistance.

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I vaguely recall something about -disableharddrivesafetycheck but I'm not sure at what point I need to activate it. I will check the WinUAE docs.

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Thanks for the info, guys.  

When I was last able to mount the REAL AmigaDOS drive, I copied the contents of the data to a couple of WinUAE hard disk files. I know I had to do a little tweaking to use an OS taken directly form a real A3000 under UAE. One glaring problem I have not been able to solve is my mouse pointer is not working! I looked for anything in WBstartup and the startup-sequence that could affect it and found nothing. It could be that perhaps the whole system just freezes on launch and I cannot tell the difference. Perhaps I can try some keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas? I really like the idea of using my "old system" with UAE as if I still have the old hardware rather than building an Amiga OS system natively for UAE. I have done this successfully, by the way. This is how I am able to get some control over the hard disk files for the transferred OS.

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Are you referring to WinUAE settings? I cannot for the life of me think of what could have been missed. Similar settings work with my other configuration profiles. I did check the input settings just for the heck of it. I even tried selecting my mouse directly instead of just using the "windows default".

I'm thinking maybe I need to look at possible picasso96 or prefs files on the OS side. I could try just wiping them out.  

Last time I saw the mouse do that, I had a messed up combination of configuration settings.

I can't remember exactly, but I know it was when I was changing the hardware settings trying to get a hard drive to work so I'm sure it was the same issue.

Once I got them right, both the drive and mouse worked, I just wish I remembered the exact changes I made.