AfA OS under 3.1 problems

[motorollin]

I have done a new install of 3.1. All I have installed is NewIcons, MUI and AfA OS 4.2.

- PNG icons don't work
- writepixelalpha_bench crashes with error #80000008
- AfA_Prefs won't allow me to select a skin (greyed out) and crashes after a few mouseclicks in the window (error #80000008)

+ textbench works
+ icon.library shows lib_PosSize of 10,000 in Scout, so MoreLibSpace is working
+ "status" shows the AfA lib exes as resident.

Any ideas?

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moto

[AmiKit]

What about older AfA_OS releases?

[SamuraiCrow]

Doesn't AfA require OS 3.9 and both boing bags first to work properly?

[motorollin]

These are the requirements:

--Kickstart ROM Version 3.1
--more than 2MB RAM.
--68030 or higher with FPU.
--graphic card.

I haven't installed any RTG drivers yet, since this is under UAE so I was going to experiment with AGA first. Could this be why it won't work? Is RTG really a requirement or just a recommendation?

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moto

[SamuraiCrow]

Since there is no Alpha-blending capability in the AGA chipset, I'd say you need to install Picasso96 and the Picasso96 driver for UAE_Gfx.

[motorollin]

Ok I'll do that and try again.

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moto

[motorollin]

Ok installed P96 and the uaegfx driver and am now running on a P96 screen. PNG icons still don't work. Writepixelalpha_bench works now, and the skin section of AfA_Prefs is now active. But the Prefs window still hangs if I try to do anything. I'll try AmiKit's suggestion of an older version.

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moto

[motorollin]

Same problem with 4.0... :-(

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moto

[MozzerFan]

How did you start morelibspace? It says in the docs of
AFA 4.2 that OS3.1 users should start morelibspace with
the REBOOT parameter.

Regards,
Lloyd

[motorollin]

Yes I've got "c:morelibspace REBOOT" just before SetPatch. But as I said morelibspace is working because the amount of RAM available for icon.library has increased.

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moto

[MozzerFan]

Just made a fresh os3.1 install + afa 4.2 under Winuae.
At first I had the same problems as you. Then I realised
I started the afa preference program from the cli,
because it's icon didn't show up in WB. I replaced the
icon-image of the afa prefs program and after that I
noticed with Icon-info,AFA prefs has a huge stack size set.
So this time i started the prefs program by doubleclicking
it's icon and it didn't guru anymore.
So I selected a skin, saved my settings and rebooted.
The skinned WB menubar shows up, but as soon as a window
is opened on wb I get a guru message. I didn't get any
further than that. Tomorrow I will try to look into it
again. *EDIT: Figured it out: I had to tick the use FPU
68881 option in winuaes cpu and fpu settings.
The skinning does now fully work.
The only thing that doesn't work is afa's ability to
show PNG icons. They just refuse to show up under my 3.1
config. I also own amiga forever, and under the 3.5/3.9
config of AF2006 it does work, so I will have to look
further into that.
BTW I use Winuae latest beta, so things may work different
for you, because I don't know what version of winuae you
use.

Regards,
Lloyd

[jmbattle]

It has been a while since I last installed AfA-OS from scratch (or even played with the Amiga, unfortunately...).  I do not know about the PNG icons, as I prefer to use Scalos, however all of the other functions offered by AfA-OS do appear to be working correctly under Kickstart 3.1.

Perhaps I should fire up AIAB and take a look at the order things are started?

Cheers,
James
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[motorollin]

MozzerFan wrote:
I replaced the
icon-image of the afa prefs program and after that I
noticed with Icon-info,AFA prefs has a huge stack size set.
So this time i started the prefs program by doubleclicking
it's icon and it didn't guru anymore.

Ahh, that works! After selecting a skin and rebooting, skinning works :-D Thanks!

MozzerFan wrote:
I had to tick the use FPU
68881 option in winuaes cpu and fpu settings.

I'm using 68040 emulation. Also just tried 68060, and 68020+FPU but PNG icons still don't work.

MozzerFan wrote:
The only thing that doesn't work is afa's ability to
show PNG icons. They just refuse to show up under my 3.1
config. I also own amiga forever, and under the 3.5/3.9
config of AF2006 it does work, so I will have to look
further into that.

I also had the same problems getting PNG icons to work under 3.1 on my real A4000, but it does work under 3.9. OS >3.1 isn't listed as a requirement, so I'm not sure why it doesn't work :-?

MozzerFan wrote:
BTW I use Winuae latest beta, so things may work different
for you, because I don't know what version of winuae you
use.

I don't know whether that would make a difference or not. I'm using E-UAE on a Mac.

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moto

[motorollin]

Just tried PowerIcons as a test, and it requires icon.library v44+. Perhaps AfA's PNG icon functions have the same requirement.

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moto

[MozzerFan]

I'm using 68040 emulation.

Of course, that explains why skinning didn't crash your
system. 68040 emulates 68040 with builtin FPU.
At first I was using 68020 without FPU emulation, later
I changed it to 68020/68881 and it didn't crash
anymore.


I guess for now, PNG icons under 3.1 aren't possible
with AFA_OS. I'm thinking of writing an email to Bernd,
but the last time I did that I didn't get an answer.

Regards,
Lloyd