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@spectreman knight arms worked perfect for me, bonanza bros did not.

Quote from: incrediblehark on Today at 09:34:44 AMI had to boot using a 3.02 Human68k disk and then insert the virgin angel floppy and run game.bat from there to play from disk

Yeah, I figured it had to be booted like that.

Thanks 🙂

Yeah its weird, the floppy isn't formatted to be bootable - no autoexec.bat, config.sys, command.x, or human.sys. They won't fit on the disk either. I had to boot using a 3.02 Human68k disk and then insert the virgin angel floppy and run game.bat from there to play from disk

Quote from: ateam on Today at 08:09:26 AMCan't wait to pick one of these up once available 🙂

Indeed, they are!

Quote from: caius on Today at 07:20:11 AM

Very awesome! Can't wait to pick one of these up once available 🙂

Quote from: incrediblehark on Today at 06:47:19 AMRun SI at the human68k prompt, it will tell you if you have a hardware fpu installed and what address it is located. Unfortunately it would have to be removed for virgin angel to work. Just using float2 instead of float3 does not resolve it. The only other option would be to patch M.X in the virgin angel directory to not cause the address conflict.

Thanks!

So my Expert has no FPU installed, and no bus error is displayed with Virgin Angel. However, it still exhibits the problems described in this post.

Oh, the fun of the X68000 😅

EDIT: I ended up trying to use FDX68 to boot a Virgin Angel floppy from disk 0, but all I got was a Human.sys error. I didn't have time to research further.

Evening all,

Thought I'd introduce myself - I've got a "junk" X68000 ACE-HD on the way, my first foray into the X68000 world   I find half the fun of old 80s and 90s computers is getting them back up and running, so I'm looking forward to the challenge (I think it's going to be one!)

I've already done a lot of reading on here and have got a fairly long list of To Dos and I haven't even seen the thing in the flesh yet.  First thing is to sort out any battery damage then either repair or swap out the PSU for a mattsoft PicoPSU.  I'll be getting some mattsoft boards built so will probably have some spares I can offer if anyone needs one - I'm UK based.

Once I have it up and running (he says, confidently...) the first upgrade I'll be looking at is adding an extra 1MB of RAM to get it upto the necessary 2MB.  Given the scarcity and cost of the CZ-6BE1A / PIO-6834-1M I'm considering designing a recreation.  The logic and memory chips still seem to be somewhat obtainable.  One thing I'm not sure about though is the 60-pin(?) connector.  Does anyone have any information on this?  I'm hoping it's some kind of standard that is still obtainable otherwise any kind of recreation will be off the table.

Anyway, cheers for all the information shared in the forum, it's already been hugely helpful.  I'll probably be back with a load of questions once it turns up

Quote from: spectreman on Today at 03:53:57 AMI found a solution that solves the Bonanza Bros. and Knight Arms problems, for Henkan Bancho users with 16MHz and 10MHz systems, (I hope it works for everyone).

It's probably not what you expected, but it's the only effective way I have at the moment.

The changes made to the system files in SxSI-SCSI_v300, do not allow the correct functioning of 2HDSIM.

I used a small image to create the ideal environment to run it (named test scsi5), the game images are taken from incrediblehark v2.20, you will find them in the Games folder.

Add this image to the ones in SxSI-SCSI HDD v3.00, it will be recognized as an H unit.

Thank you for working this out, I'll test it as well.

Quote from: ateam on Today at 05:11:32 AM

Quote from: incrediblehark on Today at 03:32:17 AMI can now confirm 100% that Virgin Angel is unplayable with hardware FPU installed - that is the cause of the bus errors. I will update the batch file to make a note of this. If you're just gaming with your X68000 you probably don't need an FPU installed anyway, some games use it but its not necessary.

Interesting! If true, that means my Expert has an FPU installed. Are you aware of a method to determine if this is the case without disassembling the unit? 😅

Alternatively, is there a software-side method for disabling it in order to test?

Run SI at the human68k prompt, it will tell you if you have a hardware fpu installed and what address it is located. Unfortunately it would have to be removed for virgin angel to work. Just using float2 instead of float3 does not resolve it. The only other option would be to patch M.X in the virgin angel directory to not cause the address conflict.