Old driver disks and "new" OS 3.9 (68040.library for example)

[Damion]

Indeed, older versions of "setpatch" were not coded to look
for a "68060.library", so a dummy "68040.library" is first
loaded, which then loads the 060 library.

Later versions of setpatch (BB1+?) are coded to look for the 060
library, so you don't need any dummy libs when using them.

Simply enter "setpatch" into your shell, and if you see the words
"68060 support code loaded", you do not need the dummy (or any)
040 lib.

Conversely, you can manually edit an older version of setpatch yourself
(any "hex" editor should work) to directly load the "68060.library".

[Damion]

@lurkist

>Hypothetical pint on me, mate!

Cheers! :pint: Should run much more stable now.

(HexEd rules BTW...one of my favorite "oldies but goodies"


@blakespot

You're probably just running an older version of "setpatch" that
only detects the 040 library...so everything should be fine. 060
systems run really slow/horrible and unstable on just the "real"
040 library (so you'd probably know by now if it wasn't working).

Too be sure, use the latest "setpatch" version from BB2...then
you can ditch everything but the "68060.library" and be positive
that everything is loaded OK.

 

[Damion]

Hi blakespot,

Old setpatch will only report that it's loaded the 040 library, even though
in this case the (dummy) 040 library loaded the 060 library.

Here's a link to the updates. I think you have to install BB1
first before installing BB2.