AFA Setup help - morelibspace

[Coolit]

Hi All,

I've been updating my A1200 over the last few days and decided to remove powericons and replace it with AFA. I've successfully removed powericons and installed the latest AFA following the instructions to the letter as far as I can tell (did a manual install).

I have been partially successful, as far as I can tell everything works except the 32bit icons, the fonts look lovely btw! Now I've narrowed the problem down using snoopdos, it shows the following error continually in a cycle:-

ramlib load LIBS:icon_lib.exe error c/morelibspace not start Fail

From this I guess this means morelibspace hasent been started or has fallen over through a conflict with something during boot up, I've tried disabling a few things in startup-sequence but with no success (spent most of the day on this!)

Has anyone had the same problem? or can suggest what to try next?

Here s my startup-sequence:-

;PsdLoadModule DEVS:input.device QUIET ;Added by Poseidon-Installer - not used loaded by blitzkick
C:ATA3.driver QUIET
C:stack 8192
; $VER: Startup-Sequence_HardDrive 45.1 (25.11.00)
; Startup-Sequence for hard drive systems

If Exists C:IDEFix
  C:IDEFix
EndIf

;Sets sync on HDD
Run > NIL: myunitcontrol unit 0 device 1230scsi.device period 10 reselect

;Sets SFS cache on HDDs
Run > NIL: SetCache QDH0 Lines=40 ReadAhead=32768
Run > NIL: SetCache QDH1 Lines=40 ReadAhead=32768
Run > NIL: SetCache QDH2 Lines=20 ReadAhead=16384
Run > NIL: SetCache QDH3 Lines=20 ReadAhead=16384
Run > NIL: SetCache QDH4 Lines=20 ReadAhead=16384
Run > NIL: SetCache demos Lines=20 ReadAhead=16384
Run > NIL: SetCache games Lines=40 ReadAhead=32768
Run > NIL: SetCache backup Lines=20 ReadAhead=16384

C:morelibspace

;ADDED NOROMUPDATE FOR BLIZKICK
C:SetPatch NOROMUPDATE QUIET

;Blizkick
BlizKick KICKFILE=DEVS:rom_v45.57 EXTRESBUF=150000 HOGWAITBLIT SPEEDROM LOCALFAST MODULE DEVS:input.device FastFileSystem FileSystem.resource SCSI.device ram-handler console.device NoClick BBlank SpeedyIDE RemCards QUIET

C:Version >NIL:
C:AddBuffers >NIL: DF0: 15
FailAt 21

C:MakeDir RAM:T RAM:Clipboards RAM:ENV RAM:ENV/Sys
C:Copy >NIL: ENVARC: RAM:ENV ALL NOREQ

Resident >NIL: C:Assign PURE
Resident >NIL: C:Execute PURE

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

C:LoadMonDrvs

;IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors
;  IF EXISTS DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
;    DEVS:Monitors/VGAOnly
;  EndIF

;  C:List >NIL: DEVS:Monitors/~(#?.info|VGAOnly) TO T:M LFORMAT "DEVS:Monitors/%s"
;  Execute T:M
;  C:Delete >NIL: T:M
;EndIF

SetEnv Language "english"
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:AddDataTypes REFRESH QUIET
C:AFA_OS_loader
Run > NIL: "Applications:VisualPrefs/VisualPrefs"
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip


Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

SYS:System/REXXMast >NIL:

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
  Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE

run >NIL: birdie c:window_enabled.jpg c:window_disabled.jpg activepattern PUBSCREENS REDRAWBITMAPS
Run >NIL: Applications:FreeWheel/FreeWheel QUIET
;Run >NIL: PowerIcons
;Run >NIL: Workbench:Internet/Genesis/GenesisRA QUIET
C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

[Coolit]

Ahh, I took it out last boot, edited it and put it back where I had it:)

[Coolit]

Thanks for the advice FaLLeNOnE, StackAttack seems like a wise move so I've installed it but theres still no change in my problem :-(

[Coolit]

Woow nice post CannonFodder, I'll look into all these once I get this problem sorted, thanks It was StackAttack 2.9 that I installed btw

Hmm, think I may join the AFA forums and post there too (or maybe not as they arnt taking registrations to the forums).

[Coolit]

Again forgot to add C:AFA_OS_loader back in after playing about with it earlier, I've added it where I have it.

The author suggests to put C:morelibspace before the setpatch line, tried it as the very first line and it didn't make any difference.

Thanks for pointing out about VisualPrefs, Ive made the change, ta

Tried removing all the Blizkick arguments earlier, except the ROM one, that didn't do it

[Coolit]

@ AmiKit

Tried that didn't work, thanks again anyway:)

@ bernd_afa

So from what you've said, AFA morelibspace currently doesn't work if your using Blizkick? But it will work if the Blizkick author patches it to handle a morelibspace module? can you confirm this

My problem is that if I disable Blizkick and remove the NOROMUPDATE added to the setpach line, startup gets stuck after the setpatch reboot, so I'm not really sure where to go from here although I guess this is because of my limited knowledge in reversing the patch. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help

[Coolit]

Yup I'm sure Piru's comments will help get the compatibility sorted with AFA_OS.

I have to say I'm pretty surprised this incompatibility hasn't been talked about on here before, Blizkick is such a widely used program!

[Coolit]

Thanks for posting back,

Ahh, I understand about your forum, just glad your checking this forum too.

Is the Blizkick compatibility issue something that will get worked on for future updates of AFA_OS? It's just I love the AA fonts and the png icons, but Blizkick is a must have part of my set-up like many other classic users.

Thanks  :-)

[Coolit]

I have the same problem jmbattle, if I change the diskfont_lib.exe back to the 3.95 version it works fine.

Another side effect of this problem is if you launch AFA_OS after workbench has loaded, it will launch (without AA fonts though) but if you try to change the font with the font prefs it hangs.

I've still to test the new morelibspace for Blizkick compatibility.

[Coolit]

@bernd_afa
I stripped out all the additional fonts that I had added and tried with only the default fonts that came with AFA_OS, still the same problem with diskfont.

I've tested morelibspace with blitzkick and it's not working unfortunately, is this problem related to the code that Piru highlighted?

@Piru or bernd_afa
Do I need to pass any special arguments to blizkick? and should I position the C:morelibspace before setpatch or after blizkick? (I know there was some talk about this earlier).

Thanks :-)

[Coolit]

Success!

I can confirm that the new morelibspace is working perfectly with blizkick.

Here is the steps I took for anyone interested in running them together,

1. Extract the blizkick ready morelibspace from the AFA_OS site into your Workbench:Devs/Modules drawer.

2. Add "morelibspace" after the blizkick "MODULE" argument in your startup-sequence (I put it at the end, before QUIET)

3. If you already have C:morelibspace in your startup-sequence like bernd said, remove it as its not needed.

Thanks to Bernd and Piru for sorting this out off to play with my new icons now :lol: