CATWEASEL MK4 PLUS

@Spirantho

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I understand that the prefs are only the frontend and thus the smallest part of all.

I have a A4K keyboard here and it starts working the moment i mount whatever CW disk file, so the keyboard support could(?) be fairly easy

My Amiga mouse doesn't work here, at least *i* haven't got it to work yet.

Hiho, i'm so happy. :)
With the new driver-release my CatweaselMK4 will work on the Pegasos2 under OS4. :D
Thanks ian, great work. ;)

@huepper

Thank the man who sent me a Peg II to port the drivers to MorphOS. :) If it weren't for him I could never have gotten it to work.

Inidentally, you know what was wrong? The Peg II hardware for some reason set the PCI capabilities to nothing at all! No memory access, no busmastering, no IO, nothing... so nothing happened.

All fixed now, though, have fun. :)

@Spirantho

I have fun, believe it. ;)

Look! An update has appeared on http://www.retroreview.com/iang/Catweasel/ !

Just the AmigaOS version, at the moment, this has changes for the disk detection code. I've juggled it around a lot so I have no idea if I've broken anything, so my old version is still there, but it seems ok.

If you have Update 3 and mount TD0: in your DEVS:DOSdrivers/ this version will fix your black screen on boot-up!

Please send me bug-reports (in my sig!) :)

Huh!?! So this means my cw mk4 might work afterall? I am on a peg2.
Nice to see you back in this thread Spirantho!

I don't think I've changed anything very fundamental but feel free to send me sashimi logs if you have trouble!

@ Spirantho

thanks for the update Ian I hope to be messing with my CW soon & it's great to see this thread back in action

I think I accidentally didn't re-merge the PegII fix so if you're using a PegII you either need to use the old catweasel.device before using the new (just once), or stick to the old for now. Will fix it later tonight!

Also just made some changes to the 3" drive code as my EME-156 wasn't playing nicely. Strange things, them Amstrad drives...

let us know as soon as the peg2 fix is out. intend to make some love to my cw this weekend.

It's already there :)

allright, cool! <3

Hi! Surely a noob question!
I installed my catweasel mk4+ on my sam440 with latest drivers from retroreview.com
It didn't work because it said: reading error on block 0.
So i followed this thread to the point of copying dosdrivers in two suggested paths but now when i try to boot my os4.1 rev 5, it tries to do it from floppy but it doesn't go on...
How can i do?

edit:
i disconnected catweasel but os doesn't boot.
formatting...

no way.
installed cw driver again, changed two floppy (one nilox and one alps electric) but nothing. on new drivers it says error on block 0, on old drivers "error 30"...

Hi,

First thing - support questions are best emailing me directly - I only just noticed this thread had been updated.

The current drivers will give a read error on block 0 if the drive isn't connected. Are you absolutely sure the Catweasel is connected correctly?

First, check your prefs are set correctly by running the Catweasel preferences file. Make sure your drive is set to the correct type and in the correct place (i.e. Unit 0 regular PC 3.5" drive is the normal configuration, of a standard floppy after the twist in the cable).

Once that is done, check the Catweasel is talking to the drive. Easiest way to do this is run SuperDiskImage, and set the start and end track to about 30 or so. Then put in a disk, put a random filename in the Filename box (such as "ram:test.img") and tell it to read. You should see the drive start up, the light go on, and you should hear it seek to track 30 or whatever. If you don't - your CW either isn't recognised, or it's not finding the drive. Check all your connections (especially the PCI connector).
I can't remember if the current public version has debug info. Find out by running Sashimi and see if it gives debugging information.

Best thing is to email me (see my sig) then we should get it sorted out.

hi! i unplugged it, replugged it, mounted new fdrive (teac fd-235hg) and it all worked!
thank you!

Great stuff. :) Do let me know if you have any feedback or problems or anything, I'm always interested in improving the drivers.

CW and AInput are interfering to each other...

for instance with the game 1941dx, it detects a joy1 when nothing is connected to the CW.
If I plug a joypad (USB) its given to player2.

another example is the game Dynamite : joystick connected to CW are not recognized but usb joypad are...

the good thing is that I can play Final Whistle with my beloved Speedking joystick on my AmigaOne through EUAE and I thank you for that !

Disable the AI Catweasel driver in the AI prefs when you want to use your USB... :)

thats what I do but you have to admit it is not very smart to do it this way...