Problems with first-time setup of WinUAE

[garyg]

I had MacUAE 0.86 working on my G3 (later upgraded to G4) Wall Street Powerbook.

Now I have two late-model Macintoshes, both with Parallels and Windows 7 on a partition.

I installed WinUAE and copied over the Amiga ROM image from the Powerbook but WinUAE doesn't recognize it. Does anyone have any idea why?

[garyg]

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.

Well, I did that I got a pop-up giving me a list which kinds of ROMs were acceptable (it's possible I have a ROM from my A4000 - can they be 1Mb?) and got the animation of a hand inserting a disk, so I figured it was looking next for the OS (I forget what that animation means now since I have had working Amigas for 20 years). Indeed, in the configuration options I don't see a way to tell the program where the OS is, although I've placed it in the WinUAE folder

The next time I opened the program and hit Start I got a pop-up message, "You need to have a floppy disk (image file) in df0: to use the System ROM replacement", so I'm not sure it's recognizing the ROM after all. I also did a ROM rescan and it said none were available.

Is there a WinUAE-specific site with a bulletin board? All I found was an E-UAE (English Amiga Users UAE site)? There's no text file with the program other than the details of past versions of the program (e.g. bugs fixed)

[garyg]

Looks like it's working. 'All' you have to do now is to make a boot partition under win and put the amiga files in there. And make winuae see this partition as harddrive.

I had put all the Amiga-related files (WinUAE, kick.rom, and WB 3.1 folder copied over from my old Powerbook) into one WinUAE folder. But I gather this is not the same as "make a boot partition under win...and make winuae see this partition as a hard drive". Can
you or someone tell me how to do it, or would you rather I ask further question at the EUAE website two of you so kindly directed me to?

Did you make a config name and press save ?

I have now :-)

[garyg]

Start winuae and press 'help', right lower button. Then go to the 'winuae for first time users' section. This should help quite a bit.

The problem is that Help is ghosted when I start up. If I press start it takes me to a black screen, telling me "You need to have a floppy disk (image file) in df0: to use the System ROM replacement" but that screen has no Help button.

I opend Floppy Disks and chose df0: and named it empty but that didn't satisfy WinUAE

On the positive side I managed to navigate to the hardfile I copied over from my Powerbook and selected it.

[garyg]

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:

1>

It's been so long I've forgotten what to do in this situation or what problem is means.
I tried several commands but the only one that it accepted that I remembered was "endcli".

Any idea what I might have done wrong?

Oh, I did some research and found that normally typing loadwb will...load Workbench,
but in this situation when I type it I got a response "unknown command"

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.

[garyg]

OK, thanks again Thomas. It seems I had "Workbench 3.1" as hd0: and my hardfile as hd1:  I just deleted the Workbench volume and renamed my hardfile as hd0: and it boots into Workbench (although it doesn't allow me to give the volume a name).
I also installed the Help file so I have a lot of reading to do.
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 - I have to quit the entire emulation.
I also played with the RAM settings a bit, bumping them up to 2 Mb chip and 8 Mb fast. I'd like to be able to use the A4000 motherboard fast ram settings to get some more RAM but I guess I'll have to explore the helpfile to do that (I've got a 2.4 Gb CPU and about 1.7 Gb of RAM dedicated to the Windows 7 emulation; perhaps I should try Hi-Torro and just do the emulation directly in Mac OSX?

[garyg]

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.

Hmm, still can't quit DM. Wil have to re-read the help file. Not a big problem to quit the
emulation and re-enter it anyway

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.

Thanks! What about 68060 vs 68040. On my A4000/060 it requires some additional software. Do I risk crashes if I set the CPU to 68060? What about MMUs and FPUs?
I'm not planning on doing any heavy-duty graphics anyway. It seems I can set the WinUAE window to any size in the Display menu

Also,

Chip RAM cannot be extended beyond 8 MB.

Sure beats 2MB!