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Skeletons generally shouldn't crash, that's about the only rule with them.

SVN revision 4723

Windows GUI

If I try to start any FM-Towns skeleton driver I get following error message:

i386: Invalide opcode FF at FFFFFFF1

I test more than 60 new skeleton driver. It seems, I have only the problem with the FM-Towns/Marty skeleton driver.

That isn't a crash, it's a fatal error.

I don't know about MESSUI, but in commandline versions a fatal error may as well be a crash.

I don't know about you, but given that the only alternative is to be completely silent and/or to actually segfault, I would much rather the i386 core call fatalerror() when it hits an unknown opcode due to a driver's skeletal nature causing the BIOS run off into the weeds.

I tried to start the driver on commandline too.

i386: Invalide opcode FF at 000FC001



New SVN build 4732 (Pentium default/Pentium with symbols) from Bobz.
My test computer:
DELL C840
Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz
WinXP Pro SP2

yeah, it's a problem of incomplete i386 emulation. as long as there are no improvements into the MAME core, the FM Towns driver will keep crashing.

it is one of the reasons this is only a skeleton
Thanks for testing

The fatal error occurs whenever the program starts running on some part of RAM or ROM that it shouldn't. Anyway, it now runs a touch longer (about one second ;)) before a fatal error.

Hopefully, protected mode isn't needed for booting (and it has MS-DOS on ROM, so shouldn't be needed there either), so maybe one day it'll do something useful. Not that figuring out all the hardware that it does have and how it works won't be easy.

Great, you make me for one second happy.