Need help please.

[swift240]

Hi all,
I used to run Amikit 1.4.0 on Win2000 with no provbems.
But I was forced to re-format my HD.
Installed WinUAE (latest version) got the ROM 3.1 in a folder, then Installed Amikit 1.4.0.
But as in an earlier thread I have got tihs problem.

When I try to run Amikit, after setting the prefs that is I get this error.

C/FastAssign: unkown command
C/FastAssign failed return code 10
C/

Ok I cant get any further, so it looks like I will have to forget Amikit.
So I shall attempt tp use WinUAE.
Right now I am proper tired fedup, proper fed up been up most of the night trying to put this right, but I simple cant. and need some one with a config file so I can set up WinUAE please.

I have got the Workbench Discs 3.1 and a ROM 3.1

I dont really want to completely give up on this,

I have been to the Amikit help forums but I have been told they dont know what is wrong, maybe its Win2000 that is incompatible? Because Amikit is more for XP and Vista, I dont want to use XP as the copy I have is not legal but my Win2000 is, its my genuine disc.

Any help please will be greatly appreciated.

TIA,

Mike.

[jj]

I would wipe the winuae install and just install amikt. Which has the winuae as part of the install.  You will just need to supply the amiga forever cd then, and it will setup everyhting correctly.

If you want then to install a newer version of winuae than is in the amikit install(think it is the lastest) then you can just copy thee new winuae exe over the place where amikt put the last one

[swift240]

I dont have a Amiga Forever CD.

Mike.

[motorollin]

Look in the startup scripts inside the AmiKit installation. Find the line which says "C/FastAssign" and change it to "C:FastAssign". Then check the C drawer in the Amikit system partition and make sure it has the FastAssign command in there. If it doesn't, download it from here and put it in SYS:C (in AmiKit).

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moto

[swift240]

I just took off WinUAE and just ran Amikit 1.4.0 and I got an empty shell command.

1>

SO I put back on WinUAE 1.4.4 and same empty shell.

1>

This is most odd.


Mike.

[jj]

How did you supply the amikit installation with the files it needs, an original os3.5 or 3.9 cd ?

[swift240]

Yes an original OS3.9 CD.


Mike.

[jj]

Very strange.  I would suggest wiping the winuae install and the amikit install and just installing amikit again.

I have used both amiga forever cd and oriignal 3.9 cd to install and never had this issue

[swift240]

I changed the C/FastAssint to C:FastAssign.
Then I see the repfs line of text and it stop there.

I can see I shall have to leave this.

Thanks any way guys.

Mike.

[swift240]

Ok, I got it working.
Off all the things......
I have 3 partitions on my HD amognts others that is.
AmiKit, Ami-Work, and Ami-Grafix
As you know I could not get AmiKit to run, I simply renamed the partition from AmiKit to Amiga and then AmiKit ran perfectly.

Inside the AMiKit startup sequence is a command CD AmiKit:
It could not see AmiKit, because AmiKit was inside the partition called AmiKit, this got a lot of confusion for the program.
All sorted now.

Yippeeeeeeeeeee..

Mike.

[motorollin]

I expect somewhere in startup there is a command like "Assign AmiKit: ". The command would fail, since there was already a volume called AmiKit:, which is why AmiKit couldn't find what it was looking for.

Glad you got it working :-)

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moto

[jj]

Its always the simplest of things that you endd up kicking yourself for  :-D

Get the same problem in work with code, cant see what is wrong despite reading a line of code 50 times.  You ask someone else to look and they spot it straight away and you cant believe you missed it  8-)

[swift240]

Well I lay in bed all last night thinking of some thing complex.
I thought to myself it could not be the partition could it?

Yes it could, why on earth I did not think of that in the first place.
I even changed parts of the startup-sequence of Amikit but to no avail.

Like CD AmiKit/AmiKit:

Its usually the way isnt it.

Mike.