68040 library?

[KatManDEW]

Matt_H wrote:
Are you using a recent DOpus, as in 4.16 or 4.17? The older, commercial releases in the 4.11 neighborhood are somewhat crashy on high-end hardware.

It's version 4.16. It worked before I installed the 3.1 ROM's.

I can't find a version 4.17 on Aminet.

[Matt_H]

You can get 4.17p21 here, but 4.16 should be sufficiently stable. Strange. Make sure the supporting modules (DOpus.library, etc.) come from the same archive as the executable.

The 1200 doesn't have a ROM Speed jumper, so no worries there.

Check if SnoopDOS outputs anything interesting. Also try starting DOpus with no config file (rename the current one to something else for testing purposes)

I think someone else mentioned SetPatch. This is what you should be using on 3.1 or below (3.5 and above have a newer version built in).

[matthey]

KatManDEW wrote:
I don't see a jumper on my motherboard.

I believe you are correct. It looks like the 1200 doesn't have the ROM speed jumpers of the big box Amigas. I still think something more than software may be wrong. What size power supply do you have?

[Damion]

matthey wrote:

 I still think something more than software may be wrong. What size power supply do you have?

I'm wondering the same here. If it's a C= manufactured A1200 and the caps are going south, it might intermittently freeze/crash/reboot with an accelerator connected. Mine also needs power at the floppy connector.

[KatManDEW]

Many thanks for all the info!

Although I figured something was wrong because DOpus wouldn't run, I went for broke and installed OS 3.9, and lo and behold, DOpus runs after 3.9 was installed! It's beyond me...

I'm using the stoak A1200 power supply, and that could indeed be the problem. I'm also gonna take a look see with SnoopDOS.

But for right now I'm gonna take a break and clean up all the blood from where I've been beating my head against the wall the past few days :-D

Thanks again!

[matthey]

Some programs may work sometimes and sometimes not. You probably need a larger power supply...

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/body_amiga_power_supplies.html

[KatManDEW]

Since my Apollo 1240 won't fit in the stock A1200 case, I'm going to put it in a tower, so I will have a better PSU in the tower.

I'm guessing that installing OS 3.9 gave me a different version of setpatch, which allowed DOpus to run.

[Tension]

Methuselas wrote:
Apollo Accelerators are pieces of sh!t. 'Nuff said.

What a load of {bleep}e

[KatManDEW]

I formatted DH0 and installed OS 3.9 on a empty hard disk, and she booted just fine with the 68040.library installed by OS 3.9.

[stefcep2]

i had issues with an Apollo board 1240 like you, same errors.  Turns out i had the Happy New Year virus, which attaches itself to many C commands, including the 68040.library, and also many programs like DOpus and scala.  It makes the infected files a few kb bigger.  Eventually i had to reformat the hard drive and get system floppies from somewhere else because the ones I had were infected. I'd run VirusZ to make sure.

[KatManDEW]

stefcep2 wrote:
i had issues with an Apollo board 1240 like you, same errors.  Turns out i had the Happy New Year virus, which attaches itself to many C commands, including the 68040.library, and also many programs like DOpus and scala.  It makes the infected files a few kb bigger.  Eventually i had to reformat the hard drive and get system floppies from somewhere else because the ones I had were infected. I'd run VirusZ to make sure.

That's interesting. Thanks for the tip.

[bfilipe]

Hi,
I also have an Apollo 1240, the 40Mhz version with 64MB. As for stability I get mixed results, but that might be from the fact that I'm also using a FastATA MK2.
Boing2 and Remapollo can be problematic. I've stopped using remapollo in the last days because with boing 2, if I had to reboot my machine from OS3.9 I had either to switch it off or make several quick resets to clean the rom stored in ram, otherwise the machine would show a yellow screen on boot, and I would have no fast mem when loading the OS. The only way to avoid this and keep boing 2 with remapollo would be not to load the OS_Module2 (Exec 45.20).

There is no way you can run Dopus 4.16 with WB31, kickstart 3.1 for amiga 1200 (40.68) and a 68040 CPU! You can check it in Win UAE also, It will always crash! On, the other end in OS3.9 it works, as it does also on WB3.1/WB3.0/K3.0 so it must be a problem arising from kick3.1/wb3.1, not the apollo 1240 itself.

However, since I also own an Amiga 500 with kickstart 3.1 (40.63). I've extracted the rom Image and tryed it in winUAE. With this rom DOPUS works with a 68040 CPU in WB 3.1!

Whdload used to be more problematic. But if properly configured it will work most of the times (some times you also need to use NOCACHE).



Regards

[x303]

I can't find a version 4.17 on Aminet.

You can find v4.17 here: http://dopus.free.fr/betas.php

[TjLaZer]

PM me for some tools and libs for the Apollo 12xx accelerator.