CD32/TF330/WB3.1/WHDLoad preload crashes

[robxbl69]

I purchased a TF330 from supaduper a few weeks back and all has been working great with the Scalos based CF card that came with it.

However I decided to create my own WB3.1 based installation. At first I couldn’t get any WHDload games to work, they would crash during loading.

After spending many hours trying 4 different CF cards, reinstalling 3.1 several times, different versions of WHDload etc I’ve discovered that if I remove the preload tool type then most slaves work.

I’m using pfs3aio from Aminet and have max transfer set as 0x1fe00. I don’t see it’s a disk issue as I can copy the game/demo to ram disk no problem, but when I try and start it (from ram disk) with preload enabled it crashes.

Putting the same CF card in my A4000 I can run the slaves from the CD32 CF card (on a secondary drive controller). I have also booted from the CD32 CF card on my A500 with ACA500 plus (3.1 rom) and A1200 030 accelerator and the slaves also work fine with preload enabled.

I feel like I’m going round in circles on this one as nothing makes sense.

I’m leaning towards a CPU comparability ‘issue’ of some nature? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks, Rob.

 

[robxbl69]

Good news is I’ve solved this. There must be something screwed with my 3.1 install floppies. I tried again, fresh install using my A500 with the ACA500PLUS and the 3.1 images stored in its rom, moved the card to the CD32 and it worked first time. Repeated process on another card and it worked again.

Will just have to put this one down to experience…