Trying out Radium with the help of UAE.

I presume you allready have the necesarry files.
Those files are RadiumUAE.zip file, which
you probably have allready, the kick31.rom or
kick30.rom file, and a UAE distribution.
If you are missing one of those three, go to
http://www.notam02.no/radium/ to
find out where the missing files can be found.

WinUAE/UAE are constantly being changed and upgraded. This guide
is written for WinUAE v0.8.21R3 with the speed-up patch. Things
will probably change more or less at later versions. But as a general
advice, allways use latest version of WinUAE.


Why WinUAE.
------------

WinUAE is currently the only version of UAE
supporting midi, as I know of.



Configuring WinUAE.
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RAM:

 -Chip: 2MB
 -Fast: 8MB
 -Slow: none
 -Z3-Fast: 16MB
 -RTG: 16MB


ROM:

 -ROM file: Locate the path to the place where kick30.rom
            or kick31.rom is placed.
 -Key File: Not necesarry, unless you use cluanto.
 -ShapeShifter support: no.


CPU:

 -CPU Type: 68020+FPU
 -CPU Emulation Speed: "Fastest possible, but maintain chipset timing"
 -JIT Settings: set Cache Size to 4MB, leave the others at default.



Display:

 -Amiga Screen resolution: Set to the same as your windows desktop,
  to avoid flickering. Dont select "vsync", at least not on WinUAE
  0.8.21R3 + speedup patch.
 -Settings: Select "full-screen" and "full-screen RGB", as those are
  the fastest.


Chipset:
 Chipset: OCS
 Immideate blits: no
 Fast copper: no
 Collision level: none

Sound:
 Set to "Disabled"

Floppies:
 No floppies.


Hard Drives:
 Press "Add Directory". Set "Volume Name" to "RadiumHD",
 set "Read/Write", and point the path to the directory you
 unzipped the "RadiumUAE.zip" file.


Game and I/O Ports:
 Should be self-explaining, except that you for some reason need
 to have a serial-port to be able to use MIDI. In other words,
 if you don't have a serial-port on your computer, you are not able
 to use Midi.

 The  "Amiga mouse port 1" settings can be tricky. But by selecting
 "PC joystick 0" or "PC joystick 1", you should be safe. Previously,
 there could be small timing problems when using those if you had
 a midi-interface connected to a game-port. But those problems are
 hopefully solved now. At least dont select any of the keyboard-layouts,
 as they will disable some of the keys. And all keys are used in Radium.


Misc:
 Just leave the default settings.

Output:
 Nothing to do, unless you want to make a video of Radium in action.



Now save your configuration, and press OK. Hopefully, it should work.



Screen Modes
------------

WinUAE adaptes the windows screen-modes, so to change refresh-rate
and things like that for spesific screen-modes, try configure windows
for those screen-modes. This seems to still be valid for Windows 98,
but for windows 2000, it uses the refresh-rate you set in
"Amiga screen resolution". If you are unable to set
"Amiga screen resolution", its some sort of limit with the gfx card.

Note, the configurations change all the time. Check out www.winuae.net
for more info if you are having problems. Another alternative is to
run winuae in a window, but it will go a bit slower then.




The Keyboard
------------

The amiga has some special keys that are mapped to a pc keyboard in
WinUAE like this:

Left Amiga - Left Windows
Right Amiga - Right Windows
HELP - Page Down
Right alt - The key between Right Windows and Right Control.
            I dont think the "Alt Gr" key is used.

In windows 2000 (and probably XP), there is a problem with certain windows key
combination leaves WinUAE and goes back to the windows desktop.
This can be solved by running certain programs to disable those keyboard
kombinations before running WinUAE. A nice programming doing this is
"WinKeyKill", which can be found here: http://www.mwaccess.net/~bjackson/


Programming
-----------
By putting out Radium especially for WinUAE/UAE, my hope is that other
programmers will discover Radium and wants to work with it.
Especially porting is very easy. The source has been made from day
0 to be easy to port to other platforms, and its GPL'ed.


Problems
--------
For problems with WinUAE, try to ask/read on one of the two uae-boards
you can find links to at www.winuae.net.
For problems with Radium, go to http://www.radium02.no/radium/.
You can also download newer versions of Radium and use them with
WinUAE.


History
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10.7.2k1: First WinUAE radium release. Radium V0.5x
17.7.2k1: Update. Radium V0.54
25.4.2k2: Update. Radium V0.60f




Contact
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Kjetil S. Matheussen
k.s.matheussen@notam02.no
http://www.notam02.no/radium/




Radium Manual.