GoldenGate 486SLC and OS3.9

[spirantho]

The GG runs fine under OS 3.9 (does here anyway!).

Do you say that booting off the disk makes the GG work (you say the icons work - what do you mean?)?

Run snoopdos and see what it comes up with - it must be missing a file somewhere.

[spirantho]

For what it's worth I get a very minor graphical corruption sometimes on the boot display (sometimes a few characters out), but it always runs fine.
I'm running my GG on an A1500 with an Apollo 2030@50MHz, 32MB RAM with Picasso II and Catweasel cards. The PC side has a 8-bit 3Com Etherlink II network card and a Soundblaster II 8-bit ISA card, with a 16bit Cirrus Logic-based 1Mb SVGA "Thunderbolt ISA".

You have tried disabling your CPU caches and stuff I presume...?

[spirantho]

I used to run it in my OS 3.0 A4000 until I towerised it (it only had a 68030@25 at the time)... but when I towered it it stopped working completely as it just doesn't get on with the Eagle backplane. I've never tried (or been able to try) with my CS-PPC.

You could also try disabling FastMem. That may slow down the CPU enough to run it nicely. Maybe...!

[spirantho]

It's plagued with problems because the OS was never designed for a 68060 so the GG was never expecting such a fast CPU.

Have you tried it with no FastRAM or no CPU caches? If that works you could just write a little script to disable caches and/or FastRAM, run Digger, and then re-enable them after it's booted.