WinUAE 1.1.1 randomly crashing

[realmadman]

Has anybody else had any trouble with the latest version of WinUAE crashing and silently exiting?

I made up a 120Mb hardfile, and installed AmigaOS 3.1 on it, then installed P96 and MUI, finally I selected a P96 screenmode for workbench (800x600x16bit).

Now, at seemingly random intervals, I'll be doing something on the emulated Amiga, (68020, 2Mb Chip, 64Mb Z3 Fast, 8Mb RTG, AGA Chipset, 40.68 Kickstart, any more info just ask) and it just dumps me back at the Windoze desktop at random.

My first suspect was the JIT, so I turned that off, but that has made no difference.

The only thing I can think of is that the first time I used a p96 screenmode, a requester came up telling me to install the rtg.library from within the Amiga Programs directory within the installed WinUAE directory into LIBS:Picasso96/ so I did that, but by mistake I also installed that same rtg.library into LIBS:

Anyone have any ideas?

[realmadman]

InTheSand wrote:
Odd! In theory, WinUAE shouldn't crash due to anything you've done on the Amiga side of things...

Does your PC have any strange hardware, specifically any odd SCSI devices that the emulated Amiga environment might be trying to poll?

Also, have you tried using a different version of WinUAE, or using the host filesystem rather than a hardfile?

And welcome to A.Org btw!

 - Ali

Nah, nothing odd or fancy about my PC.

AMD XP2500 'Barton' CPU
ASUS a7n8x-x mobo
512Mb PC3200 RAM (2x 256Mb)
LG GSA-4120B DVD-RW
40Gb Seagate baracuda 7200rpm HDD
160Gb Western Digital 7200rpm HDD
128Mb Radeon 9600 Video
Leadtek Winfast DV2000 TV card
3.5" floppy drive

I've tried a few earlier versions of WinUAE, and the same thing has happened, I'll try using the the host filesystem rather than a hardfile, thanks for the idea.

Oh and thanks for the welcome.  I've still got my A4000 here, but it's no longer operational, thanks to a leaking battery

[realmadman]

I'll try using the the host filesystem rather than a hardfile, thanks for the idea.

Just tried it, same result

Might try a really old version of WinUAE (0.8. and see if that helps...

[realmadman]

Laser wrote:
realmadman,

note than new versions of winuae works fine only on winxp/win2k
which windows version are u using?
if you are on win98/winme don't expect that winuae work fine

bye,laser

Ahh, yeah, sorry, I should have mentioned that.  Windows XP Professional, up to date with all the latest [d]hacks[/d]patches from micro$oft.

I think I've located the problem, sort of anyway.  I made a new hard file, and started from scratch, installed OS 3.1, installed MUI, installed P96, installed Photogenics, but didn't change anything other then putting the WB colour depth up to 8 colours, still in PAL:640x256, then restarted the emulated Amiga.  Completely stable, been using it like that for the last hour or so.

Until that is, I chose to use a P96 screenmode (800x600 8-bit, to be exact) in Photogenics.  No more then 10 seconds later, boom, but this time it was the guru visiting me, not WinUAE dumping me back to Windoze.

This is with WinUAE 1.1.1, I'll try some older builds later or tomorrow and see if they do the same thing with this setup.

It's really fustrating, I miss some of my old Amiga programs, particularly Photogenics, and would like to use them, taking advantage of P96 to give me decent screenmodes.

[realmadman]

Ok, it definately seems to me - in my case at least - to be related to the P96 emulation.  I tried renaming the rtg.library to rtg.library.old and copied across the one from amiga programs, and it was still fine, nice and stable, until I chose a P96 screenmode, then again, within 30 seconds, boom, dumped back to Windoze

I'll try renaming the current rtg.library to rtg.library.new and then rename rtg.library.old to rtg.library and see if that makes a difference, my bet is that it will, but instead of crashing WinUAE, it'll guru instead.

Finally, I now have a whole stack of winuae_2006#?.dmp files in my WinUAE directory, all just slightly over 1Mb in size, is there anyone I could send these to who might be able to work out what is going on?