GoldenGate 486SLC and OS3.9

[keropi]

Hello!

I installed the v1.31.27 GoldMineI disk on my HD using the install disk, but when I open any of the gg icons, like digger or setup, nothing happens!
I tried booting with the disk, and the icons work, is there an update available??? for 3.9 ?    :-?  :-?  :-?

also, anyone knows how much faster is the SLC2 50mhz board?
thanks!!!!  

[cv643d]

Do you use a Zorro busboard?

GoldenGate did not work on my Elbox busboard, only in my A4000D.

[keropi]

I use the original 4000 revB busboard...
I also use it with an ISA 1MB 5420 vga...

[amigadave]

What OS are you running on the GG?  I have not used my 486SLC in years, but remember that even with an ISA graphics card, sound card and IDE controller, the 486SLC @25mHz was painfully slow running Win3.1.  DOS 6.22 was okay, but I have bad memories of Windows in any form on the GG.

[keropi]

os? I cannot even get the damn thing started , lol!

edit: I plan to use it to play some dos games that play full speed on 386sx/20 , like alone in the dark, scorched earth, commander keen stuf...
old dos games... at least I hope I can play ! lol

[Jakodemus]

Have you tried it without the vga-card? Are you sure that the GC is connected properly? When the GC boots it should make a few beeps through it's pcspeaker.

[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.

[keropi]

I will test without the vga, but I have no ega monitor to plug... at least I will heare the 2 beeps...
By icons I mean the icon programs of the GG, those are: miner, setup , server, server setup. those do nothing when opened from HD on my OS3,9 installation. snoopdos does not give any info either, there is no "fail" ...

[keropi]

do u get any kind of gfx corruption from the ISA card?
sometimes the lines are missing from the boot screen, some times some characters are wrong... I even had flashing wrong characters once lol
my pc experience says the vga is busted... mauybe that is why with a full os3,9 it won't work....

edit: tried without the ISA vga, still nothing on normal 3.9 boot...

edit2: I had better success by installing the GG on the top slot, the CLI commands work on the 3,9 , only thing I get wrong characters from ISA vga... gonna try another soon...

[keropi]

damn, this is what I get, with another working on a pc vga, and other mem chips...

most times just freezes there....

[keropi]

:bump:

it sux I cannot get it working....
I highly suspect the MK2, as it also has probs with the kickflash.

[Jakodemus]

You should try reseatting the GG. I had a similar screen too, but after few reseattings the card started working.

[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...?

[keropi]

reseatting? Tried it in all 3 possible slots...

never tried to turn off cpu caches and such... I will try though with the orinal 030 to see if it works... even alone in the bus (except a videoslot sd) the card doesn't work OK, only the mk2 is left to be tested...

[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...!