Shapeshifter on 1200 Mediator/Voodoo system

[Angus]

Hi,

I'm trying to sort out Shapeshifter on my 1200/060 Mediator/Voodoo system, and I'm having some issues.

I think there may be something goin on with PrepareEmul because I can start Shapeshifter once okay, but the second time I start it (and afterwards) I get this message:

A/ROSE prep init31 - Failed to open driver

This forces me to reset and I get no more success afterwards. Actually if I delete my prefs file and star again, then it will at least start up okay.



I've also tried to improve the display, and downloaded an external p96 driver from Aminet, but this produces a "Cannot open screen" requester.

Any advice gratefully received.  

[Angus]

Yes, I'm on OS3.9 and I have taken PrepareEmul out of my startup-sequence - thanks.

I've installed Cardtrick, it looks pretty good during the Mac's startup. Although the pointer is a bit slow with 800x600 in 15/16 bit.

The A/ROSE error comes up halfway through loading the MacOS and I'm taken back to Workbench where a Shapeshifter requester comes up telling me to restart, holding down the Shift key, but so far that hasn't made any difference.

I don't know what A/ROSE is, I'm just using an old hardfile I had. Is there a way I can access the A/ROSE setting, or am I locked out?

Thanks again.  

[Angus]

The splash screen is the 2 faces logo thing?

[Angus]

Okay, that worked - thanks.  


I have tried reducing the resolution, and 256 colours, but the mouse pointer is still very jumpy.

How does one put the the hardfile on to the hard drive. I already have a partition reserved for it?

[Angus]

Okay, that worked - thanks.  


I have tried reducing the resolution, and 256 colours, but the mouse pointer is still very jumpy.

How does one put the the hardfile on to the hard drive. I already have a partition reserved for it?

[Angus]

I've been looking around various websites and the Cardtrick EVD seems to be well thought of. I have got it going quite well now, though there seems to be a fair amount of conflicting information about the internet. If I select MMU (not MMU/Delta which is slow) I get quite a good result. If I select Direct, Shapeshifter is unable to open a screen.

At the moment I'm trying to migrate my hardfile to a proper Partition. I select the partition in the prefs, but when I try and format it on the Mac side, after a moment it says the hard drives is broken. The partition is 7 gigs - is that too big? Do I need to prep things somehow with harddisktools?

[Angus]

Ah... okay thanks for that. Is it safe to divide the partition up with HDtools or might that affect the other partitions on my Miggy?

I think Shapeshifter allows 2 partitions doesn't it? So 2 partitions of 2 gigs each?