WhichAmiga crashes!

[Boot_WB]

Whilst I wait for a legal copy of AOS4 I decided to finally install MOS on my Peg1, which has been on the back burner for a couple of months since moving house.

In going through my various backup CD's from previous installations I came across WhichAmiga - and decided to see what it would make of my Peg. Unfortunately it crashes without returning anything.

Piru, for shame!  :lol:  :lol: Surely the latest WhichAmiga should accurately report next gen Amigas (and next-gen amigas in all but name).

btw - on your Avatar you fail to mention that Finalnd is also the home of Moomins (by way of Tove Jansson)

Very happy with MOS so far on the Peg - easy to set up (with a bit of help through Google, and a bit of common sense), quick to boot, and that annoying "lag" on the right-click menus (which I found quite annoying on the MOSPUP version) - for example when showing all files in a directory - is much shorter.

I'm going to have to spend some time over the next few weeks transferring my original AOS (68k) software from floppy to CD (as I don't have a catweasel) to install various productivity stuff (for example - Wordsworth7).

[Boot_WB]

AMIGAZ wrote:
Have you tried Piru's latest beta version of whichamiga?

Hmmm.. thought that was the version I had, obviously not.

lol, didn't know that Mumin trollen (moomins) was known in UK also  :-o

Yes, we had them on television when I was young (and had more hair :roll: ). I think they were a regular strip in one of the newspapers also.
Bought my partner the complete adventures (in book form) for Christmas just gone. Excellent artwork - expressive and atmospheric.

By the way, I'm installing a few bits on MOS - when offered a choice, which is the best cpu version to use for 68k apps (eg Ibrowse)?

[Boot_WB]

Wouldn't it be fairly easy to set up an initial loop which would identify - for example - the cpu.

Broadly something like:

If cpu>=G3
  check whether peg1, peg2, a1-se, a1-xe, uA1
Else
  Run the original whichamiga routines
Endif

It would be a nice update to the existing WhichAmiga.

Obviously it's a bit more complex than that, but shouldn't be too hard to identify between Peg 1/2, a1-XX, etc

Of course, if it's too much of a challenge..  :-P

[Boot_WB]

@Karlos

I have no doubt that you are not exaggerating the difficulty - however, rather than trying to be totally self-contained why not use a call to an external function - for example "version".
If version returns a particular kickstart version (eg 40.68) indicating a classic Amiga then whichamiga continues with its standard 68k classic-hardware-interrogation routines. If version returns, for example, kickstart 50.60 then whichamiga runs a set of routines interrogating the Peg hardware.

Not sure if kickstart is hardware dependent on MOS, or whether it is a file, but the analogy works - if not "version", then some other function - native to the OS - which returns a value useful in identifying the hardware.

[Boot_WB]

@Piru

Fair enough :-)