ACATune

[apsturk]

With my accelarator card I have downloaded ACATune the read me info says "ACATune must be the first program being started from startup-sequence"

How do I do this, This is all new to me  THANKS Folks

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[mrmoonlight]

With my accelarator card I have downloaded ACATune the read me info says "ACATune must be the first program being started from startup-sequence"

How do I do this, This is all new to me THANKS Folks

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Hi I went through all of this ,so put ACATune in the search bar at the top of the page and look for mrmoonlight and that will give you enough information to get you going. best wishes Brian.

[apsturk]

Thanks a bunch Bud  

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[mrmoonlight]

Thanks a bunch Bud

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Hi no problem my friend ,but I too had a few problems mostly because I had no clue to what the hell I was doing lol  but with the help I got as you will see Ii  becomes a little clearer ,so keep reading lol and good luck, best:) wishes Brian.

[paul1981]

With my accelarator card I have downloaded ACATune the read me info says "ACATune must be the first program being started from startup-sequence"

How do I do this, This is all new to me  THANKS Folks

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Which ACA card do you have? Because depending on which card you have the ACA line in the startup-sequence will be different.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Open up a Shell or CLI window, type Ed S:/Startup-Sequence to open up the built-in text editor, cursor up to the first line, press Enter a couple times to give yourself some space, enter the ACAtune commands, then press Esc+X to save. Make sure you don't edit anything else if you're unfamiliar with Startup-Sequence commands!

The options you pick will be specific to your card, as paul1981 said. This might help:

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/ACAtune

Although I'm sure if you post what model card you have, someone will come along and tell you the best string of commands to use.

[fitzsteve]

Here are some basic ones for you until we know what card you have

c:acatune >NIL:

(Just runs ACATune nothing more, this is good for any ACA card and if you have 3.0 Rom in an A1200 for example this will add the Ram of an ACA12xx)

c:acatune -maprom * >NIL:

(This will map your 512k Rom to the Ram on the ACA card and works on all ACA cards, use ** for 1mb Rom's on A1200)

c:acatune -maprom 'path to rom file here' >NIL:

This will map your own kickstart image file into the ACA's Ram, an example if you keep ks31.rom in your Devs: drawer would be:

c:acatune -maprom devs:ks31.rom >NIL:

This next one is for ACA620 only and is needed to use all the Ram available on the card:

c:acatune -maxmem >NIL:

This gives you the full 10.5mb Fast Ram instead of the 5mb auto config.

You can use any of the above commands along with it too, an example would be:

c:acatune -maprom * -maxmem >NIL:

This would map your onboard Rom to Ram and give you the full amount of memory available.

To check if it worked just open CLI and type:

acatune -status

It will list which options are active

There are many more combinations, the ACAtune readme will explain them all in detail, some of the options can make your Amiga unstable, some don't work with all ACA cards so please read about them and don't just make a massive line with everything enabled!

Have fun

[apsturk]

I have the new 1233. I have added the the startup and works great. Thanks very much for the help!!
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[apsturk]

What I have it set for is burst on and maprom **. Any other setting that work well for a1200 with 3.1rom aca1233?

[paul1981]

What I have it set for is burst on and maprom **. Any other setting that work well for a1200 with 3.1rom aca1233?

Use this line for ACA1232/1233 cards:

C:ACATune -cache on -burst on -vbrmove -maprom * >ram:acaoutput.txt

If you want to you can open the subsequent acaoutput.txt file with multiview to check that everything has gone okay with your acatune command. I believe after the first reboot it will change to "Kickstart already re-mapped" or something like that, which of course is perfectly normal.
It's my preference to create that little text file in ram: , but if you don't want any feedback on how the acatune command runs then use this line instead:

C:ACATune -cache on -burst on -vbrmove -maprom * >NIL: