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- From: ulv1@telepost.no (Arnulf Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP A530
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 16:05:55 GMT
- Organization: TelePost Public Access
- Message-ID: <3139.6624T450T465@telepost.no>
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-
- >: I have a few problems with the PC286.
- >ok.... was it working ok under 2.x?
-
- Well .... it has never been totaly stable, whatever OS I've run.
- And I've got them all in their original ROM's.
-
- I can get it up an running, but are haunted by frequent crashes,
- and it seems to be the screen-emulation for the PC286 thats unstable.
-
- >: 1. The Configure-software on the Amiga-side does /not/ like OS3.1
- >Ooo... Couldn't TELL ya there... I'm still just runnin' KS2.05/WB2.1...
-
- In a "raiding the BBS' closest to me, and sucking files like mad"-thing
- yesterday/night, I've sorted that thing out and now can softboot into OS2.04
- for quick changes to the pc286.cfg.
-
- >: I have version 1.01 and would like to know if there is any newer
- >: ( or other ) of the Configure software that will work with OS3.1 ?
- >Well.. here I don't know the VERSION I am running... but it's supposed to
- >be the latest... here's the VER date I just ripped out of it w/my hex
- >viewer.
- >
- >```≤````````````
- >````@`%╟@``Θ``%╟
- >N∙``{\$VER`` 11/ <----- 11/24/92
- >24/1992`(C)1990-
- >92 Copyright vor
- >tex Computersyst
- >eme GmbHC·``-I`.
-
- Same as mine. :/
-
- >I heard Vortex/GVP were not giving anymore updates... but I havn't
- >checked it out in a while...
-
- I've saved some telephone numbers to M-Tec - the guys that took over GVP -
- and will try them.
-
- >I think I played around with it once trying to get it to be ableto work
- >with HD floppies.. but had ZERO luck... always crashed...
-
- I'm using a Power Computer XL 1,76 with it, without any problems.
-
- >Make sure that you have your caches off for the emulator... I do it by
- >sticking these lines in my startup...
- >.
- >SETCPU >NIL: NOCACHE ;FOR PC286 Emulator. Will be enabled later on.
- >Echo "Amiga Release 2.1. Kickstart $Kickstart, Workbench $Workbench"
- >SETCPU CACHE
- >
- >So that the cache is turned off before any command is ever echoed to the
- >command line and is turned back on AFTER the echo command... this is
- >because the PC/286 does not inturrupt the S.Sequence until the first S.S.
- >command echos something to the con:... so this config above works nicely
- >and I don't have to every worry about the cache.. otherwise.. it will
- >crash just about every time...
-
- Since I like to boot without any Shell/Cli windows opening, I've made a
- change to the Startup-sequence after the ConClip part, like this:
- --------------------------------------------------------
- IF $PC286 EQ "on"
- SetEnv PC286 Off
- Copy env:PC286 to sys:prefs/env-archive/PC286
- CPU >NIL: nocache
- Wait 1 secs
- ECHO "PeZe Starting .... "
- Wait 15 secs
- CPU >NIL: Cache
- ENDIF
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- When starting the PC286 I use this script:
- -----------------------------------------------
- SetEnv PC286 on
- copy env:pc286 to sys:prefs/env-archive/PC286
- stack 25000
- cd sys:gvp/gvp_pc286
- wait 1 secs
- pc286
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- With this combo, the upper script checks if the PC286 is to be booted,
- before opening a Shell ( with the ECHO ). It also disables the CPU-caches.
-
-
- Arnulf - A500+/'030/'882 - Amiga - ulv1@telepost.no
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