Terrible Fire 534 WHDload Problems

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Turkee
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Terrible Fire 534 WHDload Problems

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Good afternoon, I installed a Terrible Fire 534 on my Amiga 500 rev 6A, Kickstart Rom 3.2.1, Megachip 2MB, CF Sandisk 8GB and Workbench 3.2.1, but I'm commenting on the errors I'm having with WHDload 18.7. Library 68030 is installed.

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In Whdload, I have failures like for example:
Titus de Fox, the graphics are corrupted and it crashes.
Adams Family loads and the screen stays black, it hangs.
Bubble Bobble, graphics are corrupted.
Toky crashes, black screen.
Sensible Soccer, go back to the Workbench.

Disable in Whdload Config:
* noautovec
* mmu

Could you guide me where to start looking?
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Re: Terrible Fire 534 WHDload Problems

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I would start with a shorter IDE cable for starters - to rule that out.
If I get some time I'll try those games on the weekend.
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Post by 8 Bit Dreams »

Is it on OS3.2.1 only or 3.1 behaves same?🤔
What Oscillator is currently installed?
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Post by Danoo »

As @dalek mentioned the length of the IDE cable can cause some weird issues with the TF534. So that would be a good starting point use a 3cm / shorter cable and see if the issues persist.
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The CPU re locator..... how many of them are you using? The TF534 looks very far back, are you using two CPU re locators?
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Re: Terrible Fire 534 WHDload Problems

Post by Turkee »

Well friends, there I answer your answers and tell you my tests.
I use only 1 relocator, and the IDE cable is 25cm.
Out of curiosity, since I couldn't find a logical explanation, I copied the image from my CF Sandisk 8GB 60 MB/S to a Lexar 16GB 1066X 160 MB/S UDMA7.
To my surprise, the workbench loaded faster and all the games that had problems, I didn't.
The only game I had to add the NOAUTOVEC command to was GODS to make it work without problems.
I guess the problem lies with my 8GB Sandisk CF.
Regarding the length of the ide cable, it is the same as I mentioned before, about 25cm.
I never had bad experiences with CF Sandisk, but in this case, it seems that the TF doesn't like it too much, or the length of the ide cable doesn't like it too much for my CF Sandisk, or it doesn't like the MB/s speed of CF Sandisk.
I'm on my way to receive the TF536 and I'll let you know how it goes.
Do you recommend IDE to CF with built-in buffers?
I read them all.
Thank you very much for your answers! you can always learn new things.
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25cm is FAAAAAAR too long. 5cm max!!!
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Re: Terrible Fire 534 WHDload Problems

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I think it's very brave of you to have your Amiga standing open like that, considering all the water on your monitor... is your roof leaking (like mine)? c".) lol
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