A4000D "Native" OS?

[Mallette]

Fresh from my success in getting the A4000D part of SimStation living again, I now turn to getting it up to snuff.  I've figured out on my own that the 3.0 Dos I have on it is not native.  Should it be 3.1 or 3.5?  Does 3.9 work without any hardware changes and should I go straight there rather than load 3.5?

Starting days off and that means QUALITY time with my miggy...

Dave

[Mallette]

Hmmm....

My assumption was based on the lack of 24bit and other extended resolutions.  Mine booted to 640X400 (Yuck) and the only (asided from PAL) larger desktops were like 1280X400...a rather strange size.  

I'd like something around 800X600  or 1024X768 for a variety of productivity reasons, and certainly 24bit support.

Perhaps I misunderstand the A4000 features?

Dave

[Mallette]

It's a learning experience...

I did once have an Opalvision card for a 2000 that worked nicely.

I presume such things are only available through Ebay, etc?

Any suggestions?

Anyway, I certainly misunderstood the changes to the 4000 series...I thought 24bit was one of them.

So how does it go up to 1280X400 without supporting anything "in between"?

Dave

[Mallette]

Thanks, Flashlab.  I love a good response that provides concise info.

So, I am up to speed.  Thinking back, I had, at one point or the other, a Toaster, a HAM-E (loved that "glow" cycle mode), and an Opalvision (not listed on the graphics card site...but a really great card with an excellent 24 bit paint program).

Anyway, most of my work will be 2Danims for video use, so it is really only desktop work area that I'll be missing.  256 colors is more than adequate for my needs.

However, I might consider a 24bit card once I see just how much time I wind up spending on the miggy.  I still have Image Master (had some nice features) LightWave 3D, and a few other nice progs in their final versions I might want to revisit.

Thanks,
Dave

[Mallette]

quenthal:
I see where you are coming from, the the "invalid resident library" message suddenly appeared on the ORIGINAL SimStation boot disk to which I've made no changes.  

Something else went south there and I've got to figure it out...

Dave

[Mallette]

I have seen Picasso 96 as software on the WinUAE software, but not looked at it...I assume it is a driver for graphics cards?

So what is the best price/performance card that is reasonably available?

dave

[Mallette]

Thanks, Karlos...another bit of education.  

I've enough to ask this:  So why no 640X400 non-interlace?  Seems this should be within the technology's capabilities.

Dave

[Mallette]

Definitely be using 19" LCD.  Much less makes me go blind...

[Mallette]

So how do I ID the ROM version?  I don't have the machine in front of me (haven't left work yet) but I looked at WinUAE and neither "About" nor system config indicated the ROM version in 3.0, 3.1 or whatever fashion...all 2 digit/2 decimal place numbers with no obvious correlation.

[Mallette]

Thank you kindly...
Dave

[Mallette]

So it turns out I have an IV24 board.  I believe it is GVP.  Anybody know what can be done with it?  I copied the fye.library to the current system and was able to set a 24 bit mode, but there where no further screen sizes I've found yet.  There is a help icon, but either the path is bad or it was not loaded.

[Mallette]

Amigadave, Flashlab:
Thanks.  If I have the breakout box, it is buried in SimStation.  I really need to get some pix up.  

SimStation cost nearly 10,000.00 to build.  Lots of goodies in there...

Dave

PS: Haven't really examined it, but I do have a breakout box.  Lots of BNC connectors, etc.  It is used for the LaserDisc overlay system.  All of this still works fine if I can get the boot issues resolved.