AfA OS under 3.1 problems

[MozzerFan]

How did you start morelibspace? It says in the docs of
AFA 4.2 that OS3.1 users should start morelibspace with
the REBOOT parameter.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

Just made a fresh os3.1 install + afa 4.2 under Winuae.
At first I had the same problems as you. Then I realised
I started the afa preference program from the cli,
because it's icon didn't show up in WB. I replaced the
icon-image of the afa prefs program and after that I
noticed with Icon-info,AFA prefs has a huge stack size set.
So this time i started the prefs program by doubleclicking
it's icon and it didn't guru anymore.
So I selected a skin, saved my settings and rebooted.
The skinned WB menubar shows up, but as soon as a window
is opened on wb I get a guru message. I didn't get any
further than that. Tomorrow I will try to look into it
again. *EDIT: Figured it out: I had to tick the use FPU
68881 option in winuaes cpu and fpu settings.
The skinning does now fully work.
The only thing that doesn't work is afa's ability to
show PNG icons. They just refuse to show up under my 3.1
config. I also own amiga forever, and under the 3.5/3.9
config of AF2006 it does work, so I will have to look
further into that.
BTW I use Winuae latest beta, so things may work different
for you, because I don't know what version of winuae you
use.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

I'm using 68040 emulation.

Of course, that explains why skinning didn't crash your
system. 68040 emulates 68040 with builtin FPU.
At first I was using 68020 without FPU emulation, later
I changed it to 68020/68881 and it didn't crash
anymore.


I guess for now, PNG icons under 3.1 aren't possible
with AFA_OS. I'm thinking of writing an email to Bernd,
but the last time I did that I didn't get an answer.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

@mfilos
This thread was about AFA under winuae/os3.1.

Have you checked with scout if Morelibspace is working ?
Did you try to run C:Morelibspace with REBOOT parameter?
If that doesn't work try to run it with REVERSE parameter ?
On my real amiga I have to run C:morelibspace as a blizkick
module, otherwise it won't work.


Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

Moto you gave me an idea. I copied Icon.library,
workbench.library and setpatch from os3.9 to os3.1
and voila png icons work. with os3.1 icon.library
and workbench.library are in ROM, so inorder to use
a diskbased version of these, you must use setpatch.
Thanks man !

Edit: I don't have os3.5 so I can't test out the os3.5
versions of these files.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

So to sum it all up:

- AFA needs picasso96.
- AFA needs FPU.
- AFA Prefs needs huge stacksize.
- AFA needs icon library, workbench.library and setpatch
  from OS3.9. I think the versions from OS3.5 will work
  also.


Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

This also works on a real Amiga running 3.1

OT:
That's why I love UAE. You can check things out, without
installing it on your real amiga.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

I do not intend to use Dopus Magellan or Scalos. I just
want to install AFA on a clean OS3.1. Fact is, PNG icons
do not work with icon.library from OS3.1. So you must
use icon.library from os3.5 or 3.9. As I said earlier,
in OS3.1 icon.library is ROM-based (just like workbench.library)
, and to use the 3.5 or 3.9 version you DO have to use
setpatch. If you dont
believe me, read this documentation about setpatch of os3.5 beta..
I asume this documentation is also valid for setpatch from
os3.9.
As setpatch removes both icon.library and workbench.library
from exec's library list automatically (as the above
document says), you must copy setpatch,icon.library and
workbench.library from os3.9 to os3.1.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

Just tested Stephan Rupprechts newicon.library v44.
(I assume this is the library Bernd talked about.
I couldn't find icon.library v.44).
I restored setpatch from os3.1 first and renamed icon.library and workbench.library.
Then I copied Stephan's newicon.library to libs:
(saved original newicon.library first) and rebooted.
I get the following error 'missing or obsolete library'
and the system crashes. So, for me, the only solution is
copying setpatch/icon.library/workbench.library from
os3.9 to os3.1.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

Thanks for looking into it Bernd.
And of course a big thank you for AFA-OS.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

It's working now, so it doesn't really matter.
Thanks for trying though.

Regards,
Lloyd