🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Article #11286

Re: Shapeshifter crash 4200kb

#11286
From: James Grubic
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 01:03
44 lines
2074 bytes
As someone once said:
>Hi.

>I posted some days ago about all the crashes I had trying to start
>programs in ShapeShifter v3.4 / system 7.0.1 on my 68060. This problem
>was easily solved by getting system 7.1 (thanks for the tip Lee!).

>Well, life is just not that simple, is it?

>Now another funny problem appears. I noticed a certain application
>needed a large chunk of memory to start so I set the "Mac memory" to
>8192 kb instead of 3520 kb.

>The result is a white-black dithered screen and a (moveable)
>mousepointer. If I wait for approx. 30 seconds the Mac starts booting
>but crashes after the Welcome.. message.

>I tried this with a different ROM but then I didn't even get to the
>dithered screen. (Both ROMS are 1MB and worked ok previously.)

>I tried a lot of different memory sizes but if I go higher than
>4200 kb the computer crashes.

>Since the ROM's act differently on this I would guess this to be a
>ROM problem (maybe some revisions are bad with 060), but I can't see
>why they would just stop working when there's more memory available.

>I have tried changing the REMAP8K, ENFORCER and NOCOPYBACK tooltypes
>with no success or change in behaviour.

>Can you help me?

>Thanks for reading,

>A.Fredriksson (dep@canit.se)

Sounds like you need to replace your PRAM file. Supposedly <command-option-P-
R> at bootup fixes it, but I couldn't get it to work on SS. So just
unarchive the 3.4 version of the ShapeShifter archive, and delete your current
"ShapeShifter PRAM" file. Now copy the new one over. Things should be working
from then.

And yes, it did take me a while to figure that one out...
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1624.6681T1125T100@avicom.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!montana.avicom.net!root
References: <316b3b5a@canit.se>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!montana.avicom.net!root
From: grubic@avicom.net (James Grubic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Shapeshifter crash  4200kb
Date: 18 Apr 1996 01:03:55 GMT
Organization: a Digital Internet AlphaServer Site
Message-ID: <1624.6681T1125T100@avicom.net>
References: <316b3b5a@canit.se>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pc112.avicom.net
X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*