Mr Beanbag not working with accelerator

[dougal]

I tried to load Mr. Beanbag and it either says software failure (suspend or reboot) or else crashes the system.

Tried loading it with the accelerator disabled and it works fine.

Is it not compatible with certain accelerators ?

[dougal]

MRS. Beanbag is female, like me! But she has the coolest name an Amiga girl can have, Amy.

I think you need to disable the caches on the 060 to get Mr. Beanbag to work.

Also, it will work on your CD32 if you burn it to a bootable disc. I'll make an ISO and upload it somewhere if you'd like.

I could try that. Can i just temporarily disable the caches from shell using the cpu command rather then modifying the startup-sequence?

I must add, its an awesome looking game

[dougal]

I've read this on a few forums, it's an odd one.  I have a 1260 myself and it runs fine here without disabling caches.  I'd like to get this fixed as a priority but I need to know all the details:

1. are there any error messages/ guru error numbers?
2. at what point does the crash happen, before the splash screen, after the title screen etc..?
3. are you running from floppy, workbench icon or command line?  (if workbench, try command line.  You have to CD to its own directory so it can find its datafile)
4. do you have any other software running in the background?  Try deactivating everything else, or boot with no startup sequence and type "loadwb" to run it with the most basic setup possible...

Hi Mrs Beanbag.. here is the info you asked for:

1: The guru says "Beanbag Program failed (error #80000004). Wait for disk activity to finish.
2: It says this right after i click the program icon.
3: Running from workbench icon
4: No software (that i know of) in the background

I tried with NO STARTUP-SEQUENCE and then typed "loadwb" and the game loads and works fine. This is without disabling the caches or accelerator.

I'm running OS3.9

[dougal]

Try booting normally, but running the game from the shell.

I suspect the problem is in my Workbench initialisation code.  I copied it from somewhere and I never really understood it, worked on my setup though :confused:

Yep just tried your suggestion, booted normally and ran it through shell and it works perfectly.

[dougal]

I'll try and sort it this weekend.  Working blind here though...

Nice one  The game looks really good. Managed 3 levels already

[dougal]

I've managed to replicate this error myself, but ONLY if using FBlit in 'Task Exclude Mode'.  So in other words, if Beanbag isn't in the Exclude list, it'll most likely fail on startup with error#80000004.
So I don't think this is a Beanbag fault at all, I believe it to be due to FBlit.

Dougal, are you using FBlit?  If so, edit the preferences of FBlit (FAllocBitMap) (Task List Options) to 'Task Include Mode' and see if you still get the error.

Yes Paul i'm using FBlit. Will have a go with your suggestion tomorrow and post results.