Snapshot options restoration about vamigaweb

[mras0]

My comment to the linked issue relates to how you configure the emulator in general. It was a suggestion on how to (I think) more easily configure many things at once.

IMO a soft reset (C+A+A or reset instruction) should never change hardware settings. The machine is still (logically) powered on when that happens. WinUAE behaves the same way, i.e. when you restore a snapshot the machine configuration is changed, and if you C+A+A afterwards it reboots with the snapshot's HW config (i.e. unchanged).

My mental model of snapshots is that you warp to a specific setting in more than one way. E.g. playing shadow of beast on an A500 or using WB on a A600. C+A+A should reboot the game / WB in the same environment.

After power-off, I think it's fine, and maybe best, to restore the user's defaults. The user has finished their trip to that special place (the saved state) and can always go back via the snapshot.

[Vweber73]

I roger that! Let's not be complicated, and let the settings survive the reset :)

[Vweber73]

Actually, yes, this time I could installed the normal version while keeping the uat one.. Must have done something wrong previously.

[mithrendal]

did it for the ntsc switch which will be restored rom snapshot ...

pushed to uat https://vamigaweb.github.io/uat/

the other are still to do ...

[Vweber73]

Great, thanks !

[mithrendal]

just pushed to official version ...

restoring

• overclock setting
• agnus revision

more follows soon...

[mithrendal]

did the ram settings too ... but only on uat ... I tried to show that it is loaded from snapshot ... is it good ?

[Vweber73]

It seems fine, many thanks!
Just one thing, if you reset the amiga, the settings are still flagged as "snapshot", shouldn't they be back to unflagged? Not sure...
Cheers

[mithrendal]

Just one thing, if you reset the amiga, the settings are still flagged as "snapshot", shouldn't they be back to unflagged? Not sure...

me not so sure either ... lets try the mac version...

I just checked the mac version and @dirkwhoffmann does the same as vAmigWeb i.e. upon snapshot restoration the settings are updated (but without flagging this where vAmigaWeb flags this) and upon reset the snapshot settings still survive ...

lets think ...

the question is what reset means... when its meant as a machine reset (CTRL+left Amiga key + right Amiga key) then it does perfectly the right thing in keeping the snapshots settings...

If one understands reset as a emulator reset or reset of the emulator settings then it is wrong and the settings should be reverted/resetted to the saved user settings ...

Maybe in the settings dialog we could add a button revert to... with the following values...

revert to ...

• A1000 OCS
• A500 ECS
• big flagship (2MB chip + 8MB fast+ 14Mhz)
• saved configuration

@mras0 proposed something like this in #100 ...

Might be an idea to have some kind of one-click way to select a few useful defaults (A500 expanded, A500 plain, A600, Monster (28MHz + 8MB fast)) - Don't go overboard, just a few well chosen options. Ideally this should also choose the correct KS ROM if installed (maybe warn if it isn't).

[Vweber73]

Hi,
I just noticed a small bug, with restoration of snapshot, all memory types are labelled as chip:

Anything new?
Cheers

[mithrendal]

I fixed this already 2 days ago in the regular version ... in uat version the bug is still present ... was a silly copy & paste error...

currently I am working/thinking for the installation/update procedure ... I want it to be as transparent as possible ... i.e. update notifications and also the user should have the possibility to opt out of an update because it would otherwise destroy his snapshots ... even to the point that he may want to choose to disable update notifications at all...

[Vweber73]

Excellent, thanks! So I will revert back to the normal version. I have not found a way to keep them both at the same time on the phone...

[Vweber73]

Hi,
I guess the blotter accuracy settings is not restored, right? I use it for Interceptor as discussed (0 is needed when overclocking...)
Cheers

[mithrendal]

hi,
thats right ... we want that too ? then I will add it .. I wonder if we do need it for collision settngs too ... maybe ... yes ...

[Vweber73]

I can't think of any software that I know that would spend on collision settings (blitter is more obvious) but it could exist...
Cheers

[mithrendal]

Hi
restored blitter compatibility settings from a snapshot... also drive speed and ...

I also upgraded to dirks latest 2.1b4 vAmigaCore which introduces ECS Denise with super hires capabilites ... of course this setting is also then restored from snapshot

uploaded it to uat version

made a minor upgrade to regular version too... fixed a serious bug where the both versions did mix their installations... now regular version shows only its installations and uat only uat installations ...

[Vweber73]

Hi,
Many thanks!
It seems to work well, including the 3.1 kickstart display bug reported on vAmiga page :)
Btw could kickstart version be part of the snapshot settings as well?
Cheers

[mithrendal]

Btw could kickstart version be part of the snapshot settings as well?

vAmigaWeb gives already the information about what kickstart currently is installed into the amiga vm

I just tried ... I was on kick1.3 and then I loaded a kick2.0 snapshot ... switched to rom settings and it shows this

see the information (top part) is updated to kick 2.0

only the filename in the selection box (at the bottom) is not updated ... maybe we can just write the words from snapshot into it ? What do you think?

[Vweber73]

Yes that would be perfect!
ECS Denise also makes the bottom lines of workbench 3.0 garbage... I guess this is going to be fixed. Dou you know if Productivity mode is planned to be supported?
Cheers

[mithrendal]

Will do after holiday. This week I have no computer in my hands. Enjoying beach and the sea.

@dirkwhoffmann do you know about this productivity mode ? I never heard of it.

[Vweber73]

Well deserved vacation, enjoy! :)
Productivity is the other mode mainly brought by ECS Denise, aside from Superhires.
Cheers

[dirkwhoffmann]

Productivity modes won't be supported, because all non-standard modes (all modes requiring a multi-sync monitor) don't play well with vAmiga's internal architecture.

[Vweber73]

Noted with thanks.

[mithrendal]

when restoring from snapshot the kickstart dialog shows the restored kickstart now ....

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