A600GS Updates

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Yes, you can install them in Amibench if you so require.

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Clock and Calendar. Next up - the Weather applet.

 , sarcastic as usual, got to love Kolla.
Is there anything you do not moan or have an issue with?

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PS. Sorry for spreading the rumor that you weren't attending this years show... you were just late for last years...   

Long drive, then there always seem to be traffic jams and roadworks. Especially on a Friday.
We got there even later this year, I had half hour to drop stuff at NCFC.

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Might as well put this out there.

If you have a valid kickstart 1.3 and 3.1 imported. Then adding games, you can select A500 and A1200. It will use the correct kickstart.
If kickstarts are not present, it will fallback to AROS rom.

So if you select A500, it will boot like a normal A500 with Kickstart 1.3.

I'm saying this, as in a video I saw yesterday, user was saying Rainbow Islands doesnt work. It does, we were using it to test configs.

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hi this is my first post on here as im very excited about getting my a600gs   how long will it take to get mine as i ordered mine on july 15th

We are building them as fast as we can. Please be patience.
PM me with your order number so I can check.

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For me this is not working with the update to .806. When i click an option it reboots directly without doing anything. I'm not able to press the (greyed out) bar below.

I want to start fresh again.

Wait, there will be a new update to fix this issue, as i have same issue with mine.

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great! thanks for the info.
Was worried a bit.

Test update fixes update bug for me. So it will soon be released, once other updates it includes are tested.

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Hi,
Does the CD32 Emulation support CD Audio track playback for games that use CD audio in game?. I have some Amiga CD32 CD-ROMs I have used with Audio playback on my Vampire based systems using the IDE bus and audio out from the CD-ROM headphone jack. I was wondering if the A600GS plays back the CD-AUDIO as that feature was really nice.

Thanks!
M

It does, however functionality for that has not been added yet.

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Should this work with a Greaseweazle v4.1 ? Cause it doesn't with mine 

Also : is this only available as separate A500 Config ? No AmiBench integration ?

Greaseweasle not at moment. I personally see it as an internal solution.
Drawbridge works fine in Amibench,

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In that case, +1 for Greaseweazle support here This would be great functionality to have but, as above, I don't want to buy another device when I already have a Greaseweazle.

It works well. I just have to run some more tests with using Greaseweazle. Then I'm sure it can be added.

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I just did the update today and afterwards it states

"Firmware update available
Installed 46.1.972 Available 46.1.974"

Clicking on install update after this does nothing....

EDIT: Also is multiple disk drives still not available from A600GS Setup? I'm trying to setup a game with two disks and can see no way to put each disk into a different drive (ie DF0 and DF1)

Update not updating should be fixed now.

In regards to multiple disk, you select all disks you want then select "add selected disks".

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Thanks for the update, it's not showing a higher version number now 

With regards to multiple disk, I know how to add mutlple disks, I'm asking about the DRIVES.
I  select all the adfs in the game set, and they appear and I can select which one is the default disk for starting, but is there any way to select which virtual drive they go into, for example Disk 1 in DF0: and disk 2 in DF1: ?

THAT is what I can't see any ability to do here, and selecting "Insert new disk" from the F12 menu shows DF1, DF2 and DF3 all greyed out, unable to select.

In short, all I am asking is, is the ability to have multiple virtual disk DRIVES in use from the A600GS setup when setting up a game?

Its not possible to do this as yet. However it is planned in future.

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Ah yes, thanks for the hint! I need to disable Use Zorro 3 RAM, then the a600gs Monitor driver shows up in Screenmode Prefs as it should! As soon as Zorro 3 RAM is enabled A600GS modes are not even listed among Screenmode Prefs modes.

Guess I found a bug? Just don't know whether it's an A600GS bug, an Amiberry bug, an OS 3.2.2.1 bug or a Picasso96 3.5.0 bug... 

Probably one of the components hits some internal memory limits? I see 128 MB are used for the RTG card and 1024 MB made available as Fast RAM with Use Zorro 3 RAM. Could you check if A600GS driver reliably works with e.g. just 512 or 768 MB Z3-RAM or 64 MB RTG as a workaround? IMHO that's more than enough for a Classic Amiga. For the time being I have to stick to 2 MB Chip and 8 MB Fast, which is a bit meagre when running IBrowse or pre-loading larger WHDLoad games with only 4 MB Fast free when using Workbench on 1280x720/8bpp.

Winuae has same issues.

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I'll check the WinUAE support forums whether this is known already and if not post a bug if I can replicate on latest WinUAE 5.3.1.

Been like it for years, drove me nuts for hours. Then I tried lowering Z3 and RTG mem and it worked.

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Ah, I didn't know that! All the more, a way to set Z3-RAM to 512MB on the A600GS would be extremely valued.

On a 2nd thought... if this happens only on Amiga OS (regardless of running on A600GS, WinUAE or Amiberry) - but _not_ on Amibench, it's more likely an AmigaOS or Picasso96 problem? 

As far as I know, Amibench doesn't use picasso.
So could be a picasso issue. However, as Amiberry is largely based on WinUAE. It could still be a bug in WinUAE filtered down to Amiberry.