About Amiga SYS

[cicero790]

Hi

I read a strange thread about Amiga sys in the brother site AW which had not yet made any sense so I went over to the Amiga sys site. I have tried Amiga sys in Winuae before but the 68x version looked different. I recently upgraded my 1200 030 40mhz with a sandisk cf card and a silent HD, and relocated the Concorde engine powered HD to the A600. (Stole that last phrase from alexh I think)

Now, I only eyed over the instructions reading unpack and rename partition to SYSTEM. I had no big hopes for this to be successful anyway due to the lack of graphics cards on my 1200. Some memories from the nineties with experiments with system enhancers that got the horrific flickering screen down to 10 hertz, it seem, came rolling back.

I have 3 boot partitions. Renamed Nr2  to SYSTEM. Unpacked Amiga sys to nr 2 and run Nr 2 from the boot menu after reset. It restarted...  Gave it the WB3.0 disk and then the extra disk. Reboot again into Nr2. Some choices was given for graphic cards I took “Other” and chose newicons and PAL hires without interlace. Restart…  Now music and a nice hires boot picture and Bang, there it was.

I just blinked. It looked amazing with background picture and all. Extremely nice touch with the design. The only thing I ever used was the tiled marble. Thought well it will probably be slow with the 64 color I usually use 8, but no. It was responsive and perfect.

So what can one say? People in the Amiga world have once again made amazing things and one can only thank humbly the responsible for the fantastic contributions.

Amiga sys is working great on a a1200 030 40 MHz with 2mb chipmem and 8mb fastmem  and the built in whdload runs games with ease.

So if there is anyone that sits on an A1200 with a 030 processor thinking you have to buy all sorts of cards, just try Amiga SYS. It works. It’s great. It’s a brand new machine.

Just felt compelled to relay this.

[Darrin]

I'm having major problems installing AmigaSYS on my A4000D.

I fixed the error with the installer failing and prompting for a mysterious "E" drive by removing the OS3.9 ROM updates from my Deneb Flash ROM,

However, now when I try and boot from the AmigaSYS "SYSTEM" drive for the first time I get an AmigaDOS screen with the error:

Error in command name
1>

I've used the early startup to boot from it and I've rearrange the boot priorities.

Everything is unpacked to the drive correctly and I can see everything when I boot from my OS3.9 boot drive.  Is this anything to do with it being on a large SFS partition and not a small FSF partition?

[cicero790]

Hi Darrin
I cant help you I have never own a 4000 or special kick roms.
The one I used had 3 300mb boot partitions. The renamed SYSTEM was wiped clean before the unpack. I have kickstart rom 3.0. And the partitions was FFS i think. I hope someone have the answers.

EDIT.
I can add that I did not change any boot priorities only choose DH1 (Mine are DH0;DH1;DH2) in the left list in the double button boot menu during the install restarts. After I saw it worked I booted into Nr3 and erased Nr1 and moved content from Nr2 to Nr1. Also renamed nr 1 to SYSTEM from within Nr3. So it now starts automatic when power is on.

[Darrin]

@ Cicero

Thnaks for sharing your experience.

I have it unpacked on a 80GB Seagate drive split into 3 x 25GB partitions (SDH0, SDH1 and SDH2).  Only the first partition is bootable (SDH0) and I have renamed it on Amiga Workbench as "SYSTEM".  The LHA file unpacked and changed the drive icon, installed all the draws (Devs, MUI, Emulators, etc) and has taken up 75.4MB.  If I show all icons then I can also view the other system draws (S, libs, etc).

:-(

[cicero790]

@darrin
Someone must have ideas what could be wrong. Amiga SYS is to good to be missed.

[Darrin]

I just went into the startup sequence and added a few ECHO "" commands to track down where it is failing.

I think the startup-sequence file included in the package is either wrong or corrupt.

I can get it to run through the initial commands:

CLS
Cd system:intall/c
Mass T: RAM
Mass env: RAM
Mass Install System:Install
Mass IC: system:install/c
Mass PR: system:install/programs
TC:Setpatch Quiet

I then get the first lineof the option screen:
echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
and then it fails because the next echo command is "too long"

This seems to be because the Echo command is missing the second set of quotation marks and the following lines seem garbled.

Here's how the startup sequence continues from the fail point:

Echo " |                   Welcome in
[0;32;40mAmigaSYS 4
[0m
Echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " |
[0;32;43mhttp://amigasys.extra.hu
[0m
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " o------------------------------------------------o"
Echo " |                                                |"
Echo " |
[1mWorkbench 3.0/3.1/AF3.1 Floppy>
[0m
Echo " | ----------------------------        |"
Echo " | o Workbench C=3.0= Commodore Workbench 3.0 - Workbench & Extras Disk.    "

etc

now, if I "remark out" the offending Echo commands and the [1m and [0m lines it then fails on the:

Set Loader `IC:RequestChoice "amigaSYS.... etc"

The archive was unpacked on the A4000 using the LHA archive tool included in OS3.9.

[Darrin]

Something is really screwy now.

I Quick formated the SYSTEM partition to wipe it clean.  Downloaded the LHA again from the AmigaSYS website using the A4000 and IBrowse (not the PC this time) and placed the archive directly into the SYSTEM drive.  Unpacked the LHA directly into the SYSTEM drive using the OS3.9 LHA utility and rebooted.

I used early startup to select the SYSTEM drive as the boot device and gos an AMigaDOS screens with a system request box:

Please insert volume
EdidindndififMUMUcocoigigsssn
in any drive

WTF???

[Darrin]

another attempt:

This time I goto to the AmigaDOS screen and then this message:

E: Unknown command
E failed returncode 10
1>

Something is very wrong and I'm starting to think it's my hard drive...

[Darrin]

OK, I'm close.  now I get half of the install screen (where you pick what disks you're going to use to provide the missing Workbench files), but it keeps failing with "argument too long" errors which seem to be associated with the echo commands.

Could somebody please email me a working startup-sequence for the AmigaSYS AGA installation because nomatter how many ways or times I unpack this LHA, mine seems to be buggered (either that or there's something in my setup that it doesn't like).