Beta Uae4All Additions


Addition III: SAVE-Fix

Well, actually I didn't have to implement anything this time. Just tried the last release - and saving works if you leave autosave "off".
Autosave On is supposed to write .ads-files into the saves-folder. This doesn't work.
But we don't need it. Just leave it off and saves are directly written into the ADFs.
This also didn't work before, but now it does. Maybe it's just because everything is outside the PND and executed as root when using the "runme.sh"-script from the terminal.

The only difference in the new archive is now autosave is set to off permanently in the default config so you don't have to change anything manually.

Download from here: outdated - get version in last post (with fixed mouse controls)


Unpack it with "unzip -e uae4all.zip" somewhere on your SD-card.
Add your kickstart 1.3-file either named "kick13.rom" into the "kickstarts"-subdir or put it in the same dir where uae4all is and name it "kick.rom".
Put some ADFs into the "roms"-subdir.
Finally call ./runme.sh from a terminal. You'll get to select the refresh rate and then the resolution mode.
Never set "Autosave" to "on". Just let it always stay "off".


General advice for the game Wings (holds true for every Amiga-emulator). If you select quit/save in this game you'll have to wait a couple of seconds before you can leave UAE4All - otherwise your Wings disk 2 will be corrupted.
You can see when UAE4All writes to floppy by watching at the Pandora's left-most LED (the one for your SD-card).
When you push "quit/save" and then "yes" in Wings wait until the LED has blinked 4 times and then stays off.
Now your progress is permanently saved and you can push Select to enter the UAE4All GUI again.
 
john4p said:
Maybe it's just because everything is outside the PND and executed as root when using the "runme.sh"-script from the terminal.
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As root? What for?
 
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Because I need to execute the op_lcdrate.sh-script as root anyway (sudo). Since saving didn't work I then just also tried to let uae4all being executed as root (to see if it makes a difference), too. So the reason is "trial & error"...

When I don't execute op_lcdrate.sh (50) as root it doesn't work: "/usr/pandora/scripts/op_lcdrate.sh: line 23: can't create /sys/devices/platform/omapdss/display0/timings: Permission denied"
 
System allows to do 'sudo .../op_lcdrate.sh' without a password, so do exactly that.

uae4all itself has no business running as root, remove that.
Saves either have wrong permissions, are saved where they should not be or try writing to a file that's also in pnd, you should fix that instead.
 
As it's working fine outside the PND I'm not interested to invest time to find out how everything works if it's packed into a PND. Someone else can try to fix this. Everything is freely available (and the content and directory-structure in the ZIPs is identical to how Pickle's PND was formed).

I'll remove the "sudo" from calling the uae4all-executable though. Thanks.
 
Of course you were right. Everything working fine (incl. saving) without root-access.

So no need to call runme.sh from a terminal and input your password anymore.

Grab the corrected version here:

outdated - see later post for this incl. fixed mouse controls
 
I'm glad to see improvements to the Amiga emulators, it was the reason i bought a pandora in the first place so good call all involved :)
 
Awesome work john!

So we have normal saves working now, sweet!

Will save states be available soon? Some games don't have a save option....

Cheers!
 
jonlad1 said:
Will save states be available soon? Some games don't have a save option...
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Can't make any promises. Don't have much time now. But I'll try to merge all the changes needed for savestate-support from the Nokia 900-port into our version some time in the next weeks. Dunno if that'll do though because the GP2X/Wiz/Pandora-ports of UAE4All are a bit different than the Dingoo/N900-ports.
 
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Thats all I can ask for!

With save states, It'll be perfect.

Thanks for all the time you've spent on it! :)
 
jonlad1 said:
With save states, It'll be perfect.
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We still need a tearing fix. And hardware-scaling would be very nice to have...
 
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john4p said:
jonlad1 said:
With save states, It'll be perfect.
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We still need a tearing fix. And hardware-scaling would be very nice to have...
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paeryn is looking into SDL. This would tearing with all SDL Apps.
 
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Hope he'll be successful as that'd make 2D scrolling games much more enjoyable (and really give a sense of perfection).
 
Pardon my ignorance, but one SDL/hardware scaling is sorted, that can be applied to every emu?
 
jonlad1 said:
Pardon my ignorance, but one SDL/hardware scaling is sorted, that can be applied to every emu?
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It doesn't have to be applied, those emulators / games use SDL.
So all the existing games / emulators will work magically without tearing then, no need to upgrade them.
 
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fusion_power said:
Wasn't there already HW acceleratedd SDL for the GP2X long time ago or do I mix up things here? :ph34r:
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Yes, paeryn did that ;)
So... what? "HW accelerated" means it uses functions of the hardware to accellerate it. The Pandora is a total different piece of hardware... so it needs to be done here, too.
 
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and that will make use of the full 800x480 for emus?

(sorry, just trying to clarify bits and pieces i've read on the boards)
 
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