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Do PVS and/or ShowAmiga96 work with a Mediator/Voodoo solution?
« on: February 02, 2006, 08:20:02 PM »
Problem No. 1: SOLVED! Thanks!

Problem No. 2: ShowAmiga96 (a Picasso96 dedicated bootpic app) doesn't find any suitable screenmodes although I've selected the Voodoo monitor in ShowAmiga96's prefs (no one of the Voodoo modes I've specified in Picasso96Prefs shows up in the reqester inside ShowAmiga96Prefs).

Problem No. 3: If I, although ShowAmiga96 doesn't find the screenmodes, try to view an added picture the screen goes black and the system hangs. If I run ShowAmiga96 in the startup-sequence the screen goes black and the system hangs.

Facts: In all other cases the screenmodes that I've specified for my Voodoo card, in Picasso96Prefs, works like a charm (selecting and using the modes with Prefs/Screenmodes, and so on).

Question: Has anyone gotten ShowAmiga96 to work together with a Voodoo card? And, if so, how?

Amiga 1200, Mirage Tower, PC-Key 1200, Blizzard 1260/50, SCSI Kit, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Mediator SX, Soundblaster 128, Voodoo 3 and Realtek 8139.
 

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EDIT: I've completely rewritten my original post in this thread since the last one was confusing and misleading.
Amiga 1200, Mirage Tower, PC-Key 1200, Blizzard 1260/50, SCSI Kit, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Mediator SX, Soundblaster 128, Voodoo 3 and Realtek 8139.
 

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Re: Do PVS and/or ShowAmiga96 work with a Mediator/Voodoo solution?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2006, 11:50:15 AM »
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1) Install the more recent PVS-version that is available on Aminet. It works then.


It works perfectly now! Thank you very much! It's not that I use PVS often, but I can't stand it when applications refuses to work.

ShowAmiga96 still doesn't work. Which is a shame, since it is the only BootPic viewer that I've seen so far that seems to offer exactly what I want (load the monitor driver almost first thing in startup, wait until the picture is fully loaded until shown, use plugins to fade it in, a progressbar and modules for the texts aswell, wait until everything in WB is fully loaded, perfect fade from BootPic into WB without any glitches, and so on...).

I guess it just doesn't work with a Mediator/Voodoo/P96 solution. Maybe I'll just send an e-mail to the author asking if he knows anything about this.
Amiga 1200, Mirage Tower, PC-Key 1200, Blizzard 1260/50, SCSI Kit, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Mediator SX, Soundblaster 128, Voodoo 3 and Realtek 8139.
 

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Re: Do PVS and/or ShowAmiga96 work with a Mediator/Voodoo solution?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2006, 02:48:14 PM »
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It does, I have used it myself before on several Mediator setups. For me the installation and usage didn't give me any trouble, so can't help you out though.


I almost figured that it wouldn't have anything to do with the Mediator/Voodoo solution, to be honest. But I hoped it had, thus my earlier statement. But, like so many other times: I've run into a problem which nobody else seems to have experienced. That's just my way of life... =)

But, like I said, I'll try to contact the author, maybe he knows what to do.
Amiga 1200, Mirage Tower, PC-Key 1200, Blizzard 1260/50, SCSI Kit, 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Mediator SX, Soundblaster 128, Voodoo 3 and Realtek 8139.