CATWEASEL MK4 PLUS

@Spirantho

ok Ian I'm starting to figure out this sashimi thingy!..just sent yopu the debug file while reading the 64 disk and creating a d64 file for your review.

As always your help is much appreciated

On my page www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/ you'll see mention of a new version of the Prefs program - it now has "Test SID" buttons.

I've had a heck of a job trying to get both SIDs to play through the internal audio connector, though - I'm not certain it actually works on the hardware! What you can do is use the headphone jack, and it works perfectly, both SIDs. On the internal jack, the left channel only occasionally plays, and is usually very soft. Very strange.

Of course the non Plus versions I don't think have an external audio connector....

Therefore, if possible, use the external jack. Otherwise, if you must use the internal one, try with both SID sockets!

@Spirantho

i have the non plus version.
when i clicked play a test sound the gui locked up?

edit: oh, now it's alive again. it freezes 20-30 seconds or so. how long is the test sound?
all i get is silence here. as usual. =)

@spotUP

It initialises the device (catweasel.device, not catweaselsid.device), then plays a 2 second-long fading sawtooth sound, after which it resets the SID again.
Have you tried with the SID in both sockets? Can you send us a photo of the Catweasel so we can check your jumpers? Is the SID tested and known working?
Also try installing Mixer if you haven't already. Also try running the AHI prefs and look at your default unit (unit 0?). Set the input to Mixer and raise the monitor value on all your units. Maybe it's an AHI thing...?

@Spirantho

Yeha! It works 4-me

@Spirantho

Works great.

Now i'd need the possibility to use a A4K keyboard andn Amiga Joystick right from the start without needing to add a drive

Wow... looks like a lot has happened with this thread and CW support while I've been away. Marvelous!

I finally have come up with two SID chips harvested from broken Commodore 64s. One is a 6581 and the other is a 8580. Will it work to use them together on the CW, or should I try to find matched chips?

***edited to fix crazy typos***

@mbrantley

They should work fine but just make sure to set up the jumpers fine...check out the manual or posts in this thread before proceeding

@328gts

Will do it. Thanks much!

@mbrantley

I use a 6581 and an 8580 in my CW, so there'll be no problems. Only problem is the amount of signal noise really! If you get mono sound or only one SID, use the headphone jack on the back. The latest prefs version has test buttons. :)

@Spirantho

Looking at your Prefs program would it be possible to add a third part?

Catweasel (or Main) interface

which would look like the SID interface part but consists of four cycle gadgets and control the joystick/mouse ports?

Port 0 [cycle gadget] (Options:Enabled/Disabled) and if enabled another cycle Gagdet right of the first gets unghosted consisting of [cycle gadget] (Options:Amiga Mouse/PC Mouse/Atari mouse adapter/Amiga keyboard/PC keyboard -adapter-/Atari keyboard -adapter-)
Same would go for Port 1 right beneath it

And only if those gadgets are enabled the ports would be activated (not sure if it is possible to shut them down, though), but it would be great to have them activated on startup

Though the options mentioned are pure speculation as i don't know what keyboards or mice types "could" be supported by the Catwesel

Just an idea to keep you going

@Spirantho

well havent had time yet to take apart my system to check why my 2nd SID isnt working but just noticed that all my old amiga disk created on my 1200 don't work at all..get disk not initialized error; however, all my buddies disk that he made on his A2000 work great???

also noticed AmiUpdate picked up a new CBM1541 file handler...hopefully this will help in my being able to read some of 64 disks

@328gts

Are you sure you used FFS?
Try making an image with SuperDiskImage - if you get green blocks, then the disk format is correct- which means the filesystem probably isn't. Have a look at the first bytes of the first block and see if it's an FFS disk. If the blocks are red, they're not AmigaDOS disks. Do the disks work on an A1200 still?

I'm assuming you're using DD disks, not HD ones (which would behave as DD in an A1200 but not a PC disk drive)...

@Spirantho

Burp...i mean Bump

Any news you want to feed to starving followers?

@Raziel

Sorry, been rather busy doing AROS stuff for ClusterUK of late. I also got proper Catweasel keyboard and mouse support into Janus-UAE.... something I want to do with AOS 4 but I need some missing files for the AmigaInput drivers.

As for the Catweasel stuff on AOS 4... I'll update it when I get round to it. :) I figure at least it's generally usable at the moment but if you want something particular for me to look at....?

@Spirantho

ya nusing DD disks..work fine on my reall 1200 and 500 but don't work on the CW??so I'm 50/50 on amiga disks and 0/100 on all my original/copied 64 disk so far..gonna try some old DOS disks too to see what happens

@328gts

For the 1200 disks I'll need a Sashimi output to know what's going on... actually, could you do the same for the C64 too? I wonder if your disk drive is out of alignment on your 1200 and your 500 is just about close enough to read it... but I need to see a Sashimi log to be sure. I did one build which accidentally had the C64 disabled, but I think the latest version is ok. I'll try and check over the weekend.

For the 1200, though, did you try what I suggested a few posts above?

@Spirantho

Quote:


Yes
See my post #311 in this very thread ... and all that is possibile which comes with it

Generally speaking, i'd love to have keyboard, joystick and mouse support without being forced to first mount a disk drive

But of course as always take your time

@Raziel

The problem is the prefs program is a small part of it. :) I haven't tried using the Amiga keyboard/mouse yet at all - I think AmigaOS kind of supports the keyboard or something, but I don't know of mouse support.
That kind of thing really needs to be done by the Hyperion people....

@Spirantho

ok Ian,I just emailed you a sashimi log of me reading both a good and bad Amida DD disk.

also, used a PH1 mountlist today and was able to read all the old MSDOS HD disks I had lying around so at least I know the CW and panasonic drive are working fine