Problems with first-time setup of WinUAE

[Thomas]

WinUAE doesn't recognize it

What makes you think so? If you have only one ROM file, it will always tell you that some other ROM files are missing. Just untick the "start in quickstart mode" checkbox, go to the ROM page and select your ROM file manually. Before you do this, go to the Paths page and check that all paths are correct, especially the ROM path. Also click on "Rescan ROMs" because the initial ROM scan does not always succeed.

[Thomas]

WinUAE does not remember settings automatically. You always have to go to the Configurations page and click on Save after you changed something. Also it only loads the default configuration. If you gave it another name you have to load it manually everytime you run WinUAE.

So what you have to do now, go to the ROMs page and select your ROM file again. Then go to the Harddrives page, click on Add Directory Or Archive and on Select Directory, then select the directory where the WB 3.1 files are in (not the .ROM file, but the C, Devs, Libs etc. directories).

After that go to the Configurations page, enter Default into the name field and click on Save. Only now click on Start.

From now on WinUAE will automatically load the config because it's called "Default". But whenever you change something, you have to go to the Configurations page and click on Save, otherwise the change will be removed when you quit WinUAE and run it again.

[Thomas]

Which version are you using ? If you have the latest, plz report this bug to Tony.

Nonsense! The Help button is ghosted when the help file is missing. The help file is not maintained by Toni Wilen. You can download it here: http://www.pcguru.plus.com/uae_faq.html

I'm almost there, Thomas. I did all that (I think, correctly) and a page appeared with the Commodore system information at the top and on the line below:

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You are booting from the wrong harddrive or you didn't add your system harddrive.

The first drive in WinUAE's harddrives list is the one which boots. You can rearrange the list by drag & drop so that your system drive becomes the first one.

A correctly installed Workbench should look like in the attached hardcopy. In the example the directory to add to WinUAE is "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Dokumente\Amiga Files\System\dir\System".

If the startup files are missing, only an empty DOS window will appear as you described above. There is nothing you can do there because the commands are missing, too.

If you want to install a new Workbench, you need to insert ADF files of the installation disks into the emulated floppy drives.

Edit: the stupid forum software reduced the size of the hardcopy so that you cannot read anything. I've added a zipped version of the original picture file.

[Thomas]

Right now, the only problem seems to be that I can't access Amiga menus in the emulation: I launched Diskmaster, but can't access the drop-down menu to quit the program

Not sure how much you still know. You have to use the right mouse button and you have to hold it down all the time while you navigate the menu. Lifting the right mouse button selects the highlighted menu entry. It's a good idea to move the mouse pointer to the top left of the screen before you open the menu because some programs use the right button for different functions when clicked while in the middle of the window.

I'd like to be able to use the A4000 motherboard fast ram settings to get some more RAM

There is no reason to use those settings. Use the Z3 Fast slider to get up to 1536 MB RAM. All kinds of RAM are equally fast in emulation anyway. Make sure that the JIT checkbox is ticked on the CPU page and that emulation speed is set to fastest possible.

Chip RAM cannot be extended beyond 8 MB.