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[News] Aseq: Amiga version frozenANN.lu
Posted on 06-Oct-2002 03:51 GMT by aseq11 comments
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Part of my Amiga hardware died(bvision, perhaps more) so I have to freeze development of the Amiga version of a midi and audio sequencer called Aseq. On a brighter side ;-) I can now spend more time on porting it to QNX, Macintosh and Linux. A version for Pegasos/morhpos has been planned, but seeing as I can`t yet even afford to replace Amiga hardware it`ll be a while.

In case you care about dead Amiga hardware, I`m using an A1200 with ppc card and bvision, the system won`t show up any image through the gfx card and I have no way of detecting if the ppc card is working, but I assume it is as the system will boot normally from floppy. Not from hd though, a gfx card related thing in the startup may very well screw up, or blizkick, which could mean the ppc card IS dead(also) after all.

Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 1 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by aseq on 06-Oct-2002 01:58 GMT
Damn got the url wrong, maybe the moderator can change it to http://www.aseq.de
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 2 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Budda on 06-Oct-2002 09:50 GMT
Tried pluggin your A1200 in to a TV-Set and booting with no startup-sequence so you can go find out what the problem is?
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 3 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by cOrpse on 06-Oct-2002 10:20 GMT
"On a brighter side ;-) I can now spend more time on porting it to QNX, Macintosh and Linux. "
If you can run those OSes you can run UAE and continue amigaOS development.
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 4 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by A.Scott Pringle on 06-Oct-2002 11:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (cOrpse):
and let's not forget Berniethlon. 8)
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 5 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by 4pLaY on 06-Oct-2002 11:58 GMT
Using those emulators would be pretty hard if his programm is using the PPC cpu.
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 6 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by Crumb// AAT on 06-Oct-2002 15:53 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (4pLaY):
No, if he's using C, it shouldn't be a big problem.
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 7 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by 4pLaY on 06-Oct-2002 17:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Crumb// AAT):
Well you know some software authors acctualy like to be able to test theyre own software instead of relying on others to do it.
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 8 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by alan buxey on 07-Oct-2002 08:11 GMT
i've had similar hardware problems in the past few months (until my HD finally
died 2 weeks ago....) i am now recovered.
first thing to do is unplug the BVision and boot into an AGA mode....and
view the basic output on a TV set. if you get this far...then PPC is still
okay.
if this doesnt work, then unplug everything, reseat all contacts.... push in
ROM chips, clean accelerator connector and removed SIMMS and replug them. also
take heatsink off PPC and apply more heat-paste and put sink back on.
also note software issues: remove any 'interesting patches' from startup-sequence etc (for some reason you can go years with certain tools
then one day they stop working right....) and note that the BVision
required the latest cgfx with the latest ROM update. if your PPC
has somehow lost its ROM you can patch it with image from floppy...but
make sure the cgfx is latest version of course.
good luck, i wish you well
alan
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 9 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by aseq on 07-Oct-2002 16:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Budda):
I don`t have a tv :-D
It`s a long story ;-)
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 10 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by aseq on 07-Oct-2002 16:33 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (alan buxey):
"first thing to do is unplug the BVision and boot into an AGA mode....and
take heatsink off PPC and apply more heat-paste and put sink back on."
I did most of that except reseating the roms, it boots from floppy normally.
Don`t have a tv to check, but I might borrow one or get an el cheapo one.
To others, developing a time critical app is not good, also not being able
to test it on a machine it`s supposed to run on isn`t good. That is besides the
problems one may encounter using uae etc. I`m not using the PPC cpu by the way.
Aseq: Amiga version frozen : Comment 11 of 11ANN.lu
Posted by aseq on 08-Oct-2002 02:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (aseq):
developing a time critical app ON AN EMULATOR is not good
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