Hi all,
I have 2 Amiga 1200's. The first is a Rev 2B with a TerribleFire 1230 Accelerator. The 2B also has a 68882 FPU directly on the mainboard.
The 2B is running the modified 3.2.3 Kickstart to allow booting off the IDE
interface on the TerribleFire 1230 with a connected Compact Flash card. The IDE on the 1200 mainboard has an IDE block/terminator installed.
The 2B also has the RTC module from Amigastore installed on the RTC header on the mainboard. The 2B was apparently recapped before I bought it a few years ago.
The second 1200 is a Rev 1D.1 with a DKB1202 Power Computing RAM expansion fully loaded with RAM and also has a 68882
FPU with installed timing crystal installed on the RAM Expansion board.
The 1D.1 is running the unmodified 3.2.3 Kickstart and boots off the onboard
IDE with Connected Flash Card. The 1D.1 was recapped earlier this year.
I am having 3 different issues with the 2B.
1. I have a mouse/joystick switcher that works perfectly on the Rev 1D.1 and also an Amiga 500 I have. When connected to the Rev 2B the mouse can move and the left mouse button works but clicking the right mouse button will not open the Workbench menus but appears to also switch over from the mouse input to the joystick input on the switcher. I have tried several
different Amiga mice each with the same result. I have also tried both mouse/joystick switchers I have. If a mouse is connected directly to the mouse port on the 2B the right mouse button works fine.
2. When copying a large number of files or several large files the copy process will go fine for a period of time. It then appears to just stop and a few seconds later the hard drive LED goes out. The mouse still responds etc but the copy Window appears jammed. This happens both when trying to copy files from one location to another on the hard drive, but also when copying files from a Compact Flash in a PCMCIA Adapter loaded into the PCMCIA slot.
3. I recently purchased a copy of Settlers 2. I installed it along with all it's pre-requisites and the newest update which apparently allows support for the 030 with FPU. When I go to run the game I hear music then get the error:
Software Failure
Settlers2
Program failed (error #8000000B).
Wait for disk activity to finish.
From what I have read it means a Line F CPU exception indicating an invalid Floating Point Unit (FPU) or Memory Management Unit (MMU) instruction, typically happens when software tries to perform math or memory operations that the hardware or system configuration cannot handle.
I wasn't too fussed as I have managed to get it running on WINUAE for now. But on from this I loaded a fresh copy of my Workbench image onto the CF card without Settlers 2 or any pre-requisites. When I went to open Directory Opus I got an error with the same error code as above.
No matter how many times I restarted the Amiga I got it every time.
I completely wiped the CF card on my Windows machine using DISKPART and "Clean All" then wrote a new image to the card and now can open Directory Opus without the error.
As mentioned I am not too fussed about issue 3 but would really like to work out what's going on with issues 1 and 2.
Any advice, suggestions etc welcome.
Thanks,
Dwarfboysim
