SheepShaver A-10 Cuba! crash

[ewood]

Hi fellas,

So, I'm trying various versions of SheepShaver on my G5 tower here with Leopard, and trying to run it with the Mac OS ROM Update 1.0 ROM file, windowed at 1024 X 768, I start up A-10 Cuba! in the thing only to have it locked up when the dialogue appears to register the program. The game runs in BasiliskII, albeit with not too impressive performance.

By the way, a screen capture of the crash:

http://ximages.net/images/41438339383213896401.png

Also, the very same thing happens with the latest version from MacPorts, and running that from the terminal, this is the feedback:

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Reading ROM file...
Using SDL/coreaudio audio output
WARNING: Unknown CPU type
WARNING: Unknown DiskStatus(6)
WARNING: Unknown DiskStatus(6)
WARNING: Unknown DiskStatus(6)
SIGSEGV
   pc 78060f50     lr 166d6b24    ctr 78060f0c    msr 0000d930
  xer 20000000     cr 425e4442  
   r0 00000000     r1 34edd400     r2 ffffffff     r3 ffffffff
   r4 00000400     r5 00000001     r6 03ff9416     r7 00000010
   r8 ffffffff     r9 00000000    r10 37e9c024    r11 37cec56a
  r12 6007ff18    r13 00000000    r14 00000001    r15 17084aa0
  r16 16cdafa0    r17 16d76f9e    r18 36414b6a    r19 16d6ed20
  r20 00000000    r21 000000ff    r22 163f43e4    r23 00000001
  r24 344d6340    r25 34eddb18    r26 000000c0    r27 00000000
  r28 34eddc04    r29 34456630    r30 34456630    r31 34edd4c8
ERROR: Your Mac program did something terribly stupid.
(pc 0x30303120, 68k pc 0x31322036, sp 0xf0490ea0, opcode 00000000)

I hope that this info can be useful in making SheepShaver a more useful app!

[Ronald P. Regensburg]

Which builds of SheepShaver did you try? And did you enable "Ignore Illegal Memory Accesses" in SheepShaver preferences (as you should).

[24bit]

Took a short look at Demo mode only.
No problem with SheepShaver OS8.6 on my 10.6.8 host.

[ewood]

Which builds of SheepShaver did you try? And did you enable "Ignore Illegal Memory Accesses" in SheepShaver preferences (as you should).

Yes, I usually have to use the Ignore Illegal Memory Access feature for the system to start up and run at all. As for builds, a number of them, including the latest available. I wasn't able to find one that did not crash like this, so it would seem to be an old problem already, whatever it actually is.

Interesting what 24bit says about the demo under 8.6; I don't have the demo on hand, but then I'm sure that doesn't ask for a serial number, either, and that was the point at which the full game was crashing.

[24bit]

Sorry for not being precise.
I registered the game and started with the button in the right lower (?) corner, so that it would show some flight operating scenes.
I´m no gamer and flying by keyboard seems to be troublesome.
Again, this was SS on a 10.6.8 AMD640 host. A G5 PPC host may differ deliberately.