Amiga setup "woes," possible change-up ahead...

[Damion]

In general, the capacitor issue refers to the radial SMD caps - A1200, A4000, A600, CD32, and Zorro cards that have them. The thru-hole caps in the older models were usually of decent quality and aren't as much of a concern (yet). I only replace the latter in PSUs.

[Damion]

Is a 68060 ECS A2000 more "compatible" with WHDLoad titles than an '030 AGA A1200?

No, the '030 A1200 would be about ideal for WHDLoad, with the exception of 1 or 2 accelerator cards that cause problems. (Blizzards are all good, my GVP is fine, too.) The '060 cards are usually OK - that said, I would sometimes have niggling access faults in certain games that wouldn't pop up until several minutes in... seriously annoying. Overall though I had few issues with the '060 cards, but the 1200/030 combo can bring WHDLoad perfection.
 

God knows I have to crank out the NOAUTOVEC action to run half the stuff I come across.

Thanks.

Odd, don't think this should be the case with the Blizz 2060. Do you have networking up while running games? Any other cards in the system? There was also a version of the phase5 processor library that caused problems with WHDLoad, might want to try another, or even better the mmulib library.

[Damion]

The which??



bp

LOL, sorry

The "noautovec" tooltype shouldn't really be a necessity, at least I don't recall this issue when I had my my B2060 running. This might mean you have another piece of hardware in the system causing WHDLoad to bomb, or maybe a network interface online (always have them offline before launching games).

Latest version of the phase5 cpu libraries here. It's worth a check that your 68060.library is the last released, since one or more of the earlier ones causes problems with WHDLoad.

The mmulib package can be found here, and includes its own replacement processor libraries. These are the best ones (IMHO) and worth a try, but AFAIK, the latest phase5 library should work fine with WHDLoad.

Anyhow, didn't mean to drag things too far OT - your 2060 should be great for WHDLoad without requiring extra tooltypes, and nearly as good as a 1200/'030 (minus lack of AGA compatibility, obviously).

[Damion]

oops!

http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/MMULib

I had just installed the libs on a floppy that came with this accelerator.

OK, you might be running an outdated library - try the last one from phase5 and see how it goes.

[Damion]

I grabbed the new P5 68060.library set.

I still get NMI auto vec crashes on basically every demo I run. :-(



bp

Bummer! I'll try finding some time over the weekend to get mine fired up, and see if I encounter the same problem. What demos should I try?

That aside, the only other suggestion I can think of would be to pop out the x-surf and try again. I also wouldn't hesitate to start a thread over at the eab - the WHDLoad developers are really friendly and active over there.