Showing posts with label beta 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beta 12. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

AmigaOS4.1 Classic on WinUAE Part 2

In Part 2 of setting up AmigaOS4.1 Classic on WinUAE I will look at how to prep and install AmigaOS4.1 Classic on a hard disk file in WinUAE.


There is a guide I followed for the AmigaOS4.0 installation here. However there are no pictures so I have done screengrabs to show the process to hopefully make it clearer what needs to be done.

I created a WinUAE configuration with a standard A1200 Kickstart 3.1 system, 2MB Chip RAM, 4MB Fast RAM (not needed really), with the Workbench 3.1 Install floppy mounted in DF0, and the AmigaOS4.1 HDF I created in Part 1 mounted (with RDB enabled) as DH0: using the default UAE driver.

Make sure that the AmigaOS4.1 Classic configuration created in Part 1 also has RDB enabled on the hard disk created.

When the emulation is started and the Install disk has booted to Workbench 3.1 desktop, open the Install3.1 disk, browse to HDTools folder and run HDToolbox:
 

In HDToolbox you should see the unknown SCSI disk as below:


Click on Change Drive Type, which should show the following screen:


Click on Define New... to define a new hard disk drive type:


Click on Read Configuration, then click on the Continue option in the window that appears:


You will then get a screen like below. Ignore the incorrect sizing shown. Click on OK:


You then get a screen similar to the one below. Click on OK:


Now the drive status has changed and is shown as below:


Next, click on Partition Drive:


I removed the second partition (click on the partition on the right, then select Delete Partition).

Then drag the first partition to cover the rest of the drive. Click on Advanced Options checkbox to see the additional options as shown below:


I changed the Partition device name to DH0, the File System to Fast File System (click on Change... option to change this) and then click on OK:


Now click on Save Changes to Drive, and then click Exit.

Now close the WinUAE emulation, then relaunch WinUAE and load the AmigaOS4.1 configuration created in Part 1. Then launch the emulation. When it boots you should now see the new Drive DH0:Uninitialised icon as below:


I then select the drive, then right click on the Title bar, highlight the Icon Menu and select Format Disk to see the Format Disk screen below:


I change the Volume name to System, uncheck the Put Trashcan option, and select Quick Format - it will double check you really want to do this and then it will format - this takes a few minutes so please be patient:


When done you will see the formatted drive, ready to go:


Double click on the AmigaOS4.1 Installation icon to start the installation:


Click Next and accept the Terms and Conditions. Then ensure Amiga 4000 is the model automatically selected in the screen below and click on Next:


 Click Next on this next screen:


Next it asks where to install - it should pick DH0 automatically - click on Next:


Change the Graphics Card to Picasso IV and click on Next:


Select the resolution. It gives the option for 1920x1080 (shown below) but the Picasso IV can't do this - I suggest 1024x768 @ 60hz:


Uncheck the Load the cybppc.device option and click Next:


On the next screen below just click Next:


On the next screen below just click Next:


You are now presented a summary of your installation choices prior to the Installation of files onto the hard disk:


After clicking Next, the installation of files to the hard disk starts:


As a guide, it took 1 hour on my PC to do this installation section until I got the completed screen below - so make a coffee, watch some tv or whatever!


At this point, Click Next to finish the installation. Press F12 and hit Restart (don't use Reset - soft resets don't work properly when using ppc emulation in this WinUAE version).

When the WinUAE configuration GUI comes back up, eject the boot floppy adf from DF0 and eject the AmigaOS4.1 Classic cd image and then save the configuration. Then start the emulation to boot AmigaOS4.1 from hard disk.

As a guide, booting takes around 4 minutes. You then get the post install configuration options - fantastic! It worked!


I check the screen resolution since the Picasso IV is defaulting to 1024x768x16 bit instead of 24 bit. I changed this as below, clicked Test to make sure it worked, then Clicked on Save to make the change permanent:


Here is the AmigaOS4.1 Classic desktop running under WinUAE:


At this point, you really should close WinUAE and make a backup copy of the HDF you just created so you don't have to do that installation again.

Next I downloaded the AmigaOS4.1 Updates 3,4,5 and 6 from Hyperion's website. I then used Imgburn to create an iso containing those files, and then mounted the cd image into this WinUAE session (using F12 within the emulation, then selecting the cd image file). The cd image I created then appears on the AmigaOS4.1 desktop. I do a directory in Shell to show the contents:


Next I ran UnArc from the System:Utilities folder (and added it to the AmiDock) to extract the Update3 archive to RAM: - this also takes a while, so please be patient:


Once extracted, here is the Update3 folder:


I then kicked off the Update 3 installation:




The install takes a little while, so please be patient:


Install then completes. Make sure you uncheck Restart my Computer now and then click Finish. Press F12 and select Restart in WinUAE and relaunch the emulation:


After it boots back up we now have Update 3 installed:


We can then move on to extract and install Updates 4,5 and 6. It is required to install each in order as the updates are not cumulative.

I won't bore you showing all those installs, but they follow the same pattern as the Update 3 install I have shown. Allow plenty of time for these!


In Part 3 I will cover the next part of the build configuration. Until then, have fun with AmigaOS4.1 Classic on WinUAE!

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

AmigaOS4.1 Classic on WinUAE Part 1

By far the exciting news of this week (in my opinion) has been the PPC support implemented in BETA form on the WinUAE Classic Amiga emulation. This enables AmigaOS4.1 Classic to be used under WinUAE on a Windows PC! I had to try this out!


My computer setup is a Core i7 3.20Ghz PC running Windows 7 Pro 64bit, with 16GB RAM, plenty of HD space, Geforce 690, DVD drive and Amiga Forever 2013 installed.

I then updated WinUAE to the latest public 2.8.1 version available from http://www.winuae.net/

Next download the Beta12 file from here: http://www.winuae.net/files/b/winuae_2900b12.zip

Backup your old winuae.exe and replace with this beta 12 version.

Next, download the Picasso IV rom file from here: http://www.sophisticated-development.de/software//P-IV/PIV_FlashImage74.zip
Rename the extracted rom file from the zip to Picasso_iv_flash.rom and place into Rom folder in WinUAE folder.

Next, download the cyberstormppc.rom - I was given it (I own a real cyberstorm PPC on my A4000D), so I think you will need to Google this one sorry! When you find it, put this file into the Rom folder as well.

Convert your AmigaOS4.1 Classic CD to an backup ISO to mount into the emulation (I believe you can use the original CD too but I didn't test this). I use ImgBurn for this.

Copy the boot_floppy.adf from the cd - it is located inside the boot_floppy.adf.lha archive in the BootFloppy folder. Copy to your WinUAE adf folder or wherever you put adf files.

Fire up WinUAE and here are my working settings for your reference. Thanks HammerD for the help with this.

CPU and FPU Section:


Chipset Section:


Adv. Chipset section:


ROM section:

Note: Make sure you choose the 3.1 ROM for A4000 (Cloanto) as the System rom (you will have this if you purchased Amiga Forever - I guess other 3.1 roms might work but not tested:


Under the Accelerator Board Rom file, browse for the ROM file and select the cyberstormppc.rom file you put into the rom folder earlier:


RAM Section:


Floppy drives section:

Make sure you choose the boot_floppy.adf you copied from the AmigaOS4.1 Classic CDROM for DF0:


CD & Hard Drives Section:

Make sure the Devices are set as IDE:0 (HDF) and IDE:1 (CD ISO). If you don't have a hard file, select Add Hard file, shown below this screenshot. To add the CD ISO use the Select image file option under Optical Media Options and select the AmigaOS4.1 Classic iso you created earlier:


Add Hard file setting screen:
- Go to the New hard disc image file section, put in 4096MB, select FFS as the DOS Type and click on Create, then name the HDF file, then edit it's properties to match what you see above. Make sure you select Enable RDB Mode.



Expansions Section:

Here we specify the Picasso IV video card to get the higher colour screenmodes. To use this, we need to have the Picasso_iv_flash.rom present in the rom folder as covered earlier. Otherwise you will get an error when launching the emulation:


Other sections are more personal taste, but I include them for completenesss:











Don't forget to name and save the configuration you created before starting the emulation up (you can do this in the Configurations tab).

Having powered on the WinUAE session using the setup above, I then get the Pink boot screen - excellent:


This is then followed by the AmigaOS4.1 Classic logo as the Install CD boots up:


It is certainly not fast, but eventually after around 5 minutes you get to the Installation CD initial setup below:


For now I just want to confirm it works, so I choose to boot into AmigaOS4.1 from the CD. Here it is once booted up:



It works! I brought up a notepad session and Shell session and seems to run pretty well:


A little poke around at the Prefs section from the LiveCD:


I will do more on this another day (hard disk install, trying programs out, etc) but it is almost midnight here and I wanted to share on my blog how to get it working for those who may be interested in trying it out!