#Spectrum Problem
"Just a little problem. I purchased GigaMem over the weekend. It's
install updated my 68040.library to version 37.10. Should be no
problem with that, but when I rebooted the machine after the install
I found that the Spectrum workbench emulation would no longer work.
Replacing the old 68040.library (verson 37.2) fixed the EGS problem
but then GigaMem would refuse to run because it requires version
37.10 or higher."
Version 37.30 works perfectly with EGS and GigaMem and solves a lot of
other related problems…
"I really don't understand how the 68040.library would affect the Spectrum.
Is there a fix for this, I would like to use GigaMem."
See above.
"The problem with the workbench emulation is something I've seen
before, when I removed the fastrom option from GVPCPUCTRL in the
startup-sequence. You get a screen full of colorful patterns that
kind of looks like my 1024×768 workbench is being displayed on a
low-res screen. In other words each video line is wrapping because of
the reduced line length. I know from the pixel size that the screen
is low-res."
Hmmm, I've seen this before, and most likely the above library change
will solve it.
"Also why is it nessesary to copy the 2.0 roms to ram in order to run
the workbench emulation. EGS isn't patching the ROM is it??? This
would be very disturbing with 3.1 so close."
It only patches <3.0, and then only sometimes at that. If you are
using 2.0 or 2.1 *AND* you are remapping Kickstart, EGS will patch it
to give you 256 color Workbench capabilities (i.e. pseudo-AGA
emulation). If you don't remap Kickstart, EGS will not patch it, and
you will only get 16 color Workbench screenmodes in higher
resolutions.
If you are using 3.0 or higher, EGS does nothing to the Kickstart.
"My system consists of a 3000T with a GVP G-Force 040 and 20 meg of ram
(4 meg on the 040 card)."
The 68040.library also should be used with the latest SetPatch (40.16) to give
you the most stable system possible.
Gary Nush