MCP advice

[Amigaz]

Having tried almost all cool Amiga patches I decided to give the new MCP version a go and used to installer scrip to install it and adding the commands to my startup-sequence according to the MCP guide but when booting my Amiga it only gets as far as showing the titlebar and then it hangs?
Anyone here with MCP experience who can help me?
I have other patches installed like VisualPrefs, Birdie2000, FullPalette, BlizKick (kicked with custom kickromfile), PowerIcons, StackAttack.
The machine is an A1200 '040@25mhz 603e@200mhz

[amigagr]

i use mcp a lot of years without problems, but from wbstartup and not ss. if you follow the instractions on which patches of mcp NOT to use if you have some other patches in your us or/and ss you will not have problems. delete or rename temporary the prefs file of mcp, boot and if it goes ok then run the mcp prefs and set the functions you want to use. personaly i always install/update mcp manualy.

[jmbattle]

You may need to run c:patchcontrol early on in the ss.

Cheers,
James
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[Wayne]

new mcp version 1.45 is very buggy and was made from a new author and not the original authors
it include new bugs only

unistall that buggy 1.45 and install mcp 1.30 from aminet

[AmiKit]

@AMIGAZ

Run ShowPatches (you might also download FD files if not present in original archive) to see what system functions are patched. Maybe something is patched twice.

The best idea is to disable all the patches in MCP settings (just leave the commodities enabled) and then enable patches one by one to see which one is problematic. If I am correct, the "Test" button doesn't work as expected in MCP settings so you have to always save your settings and restart MCP or better the whole system to apply the changes.

@Laser

Excellent attitude Laser! I suppose you already posted a lot of bugreports to the current developer of MCP, right? :pissed:

[Dragster]

Hi,

I've used MCP since long time ago.. I don't know how buggy it is because I use a few patches only, many people say it's buggy and that it causes problems...

Anyway, I found that powersaver patch/commodidy does not work in the latest version on cybergraphx screens, this function worked in v1.44. I sent an email to the Author three days ago but I've had no reply so far :-/

D.

[AmiKit]

Maybe your mail was filtered out by spamfilter. Author of MCP is very active on his mailing list:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/mcpactiv/

[AmigaMance]

@Laser

Excellent attitude Laser! I suppose you already posted a lot of bugreports to the current developer of MCP, right?

 Actually, what laser said is true but the author should take only half of the blame because he has an A1 now and he can't test the changes that he applies by himself. Imho, the beta-testers should be blamed more.

@ Dragster and all
 The author is in vacation and he will be back in july.