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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« on: April 23, 2007, 06:04:04 PM »
I have just installed CGX4. Now there are no CGX screenmodes in ScreenMode prefs. If I go in to CGXMode and test any of the screenmodes, I get an error saying "Can't open test screen!"

What can I do?

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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
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80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2007, 06:07:30 PM »
Really? There was a floppy disk with an update which I used when I installed CGX. Is there a more recent update than that?

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2007, 07:03:39 PM »
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AMIGAZ wrote:
Using nothing but CGX4 and the latest update you're going to run into trouble at some point, moto  :roll:

Why?

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2007, 07:38:15 PM »
Well, I downloaded the latest update (thanks Thomas for the link) and used it to do an update over the top of my CGX3 installation. It works great now! Not really sure what the actual benefits are of CGX4, but RTGMaster works now, both for the test apps and also for Napalm :-D

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2007, 08:43:17 PM »
Yep. When you run the installer it says that it can update a working v3 or v4 installation.

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10
 

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Re: CGX4: "Can't open test screen!"
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2007, 08:52:42 PM »
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AMIGAZ wrote:
Weird you got it working, it should only work with the original CGX4 cd

Hope you didn't get a broken install now by mixing CGX3 stuff with CGX4 files

but you have ordered the CGX4 cd from Amigakit so if you run into troubles you won't suffer for long   :-)

Perhaps I didn't explain properly. My CGX4 CD arrived today. When I ran the R6 installer it asked for the CD and copied some files from it. So it's not a blend of v3 and v4, it's just an upgrade from v3 to v4. The installer is designed to do this so it's not like I've kludged it :-)

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Code: [Select]
10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10