FreeAXP failed to create configuration file on Vista

I've seen the same problem with the configuration wizard crashing on Windows 7 x64 Enterprise. Machine is a 4-core opteron. The emulator itself runs fine with the config file you posted above. I have seen the problem on beta 269 and the one preceeding it. The only "unusual" thing I have installed re. .net runtimes, etc, is Visual Studio 2010 RC.

You aren't anywhere near an active volcano are you? Silica ash has been known to trigger this issue.

Seriously, we are unable to recreate the problem on any of our 10 test boxes running about 20 different flavors of Windows, which is frustrating. I'll see what can be done regarding diagnosing the problem in a different way.

RandyR: If you happen to leave the console window open from a previous FreeAXP run, you would see the "CTB-W-NOBIND: Could not bind socket to listen on!" message. The prior PuTTY console session would still own the port.

Thanks for checking this out. If you would like me to run a debug build or do something else to try to get some more info, just let me know.

I think I'm making progress. I followed the recommendation by iamcamiel & modified the serial ports in the configuration file. Now I get an error that a disk image file doesn't exist & there is no auto_create size set. Reading the User Guide I see that this would have been set had I used the Configuration Wizard.

Here's an example of the configuration syntax for three disks:

disk0.0: Existing image file.

disk0.1: 2GB image file will be created if it does not exist. Valid sizes are 1G to 100G.

disk0.6: CD ISO image

< class='quote' style='width:400px;white-space:nowrap;overflow:auto'><code style='white-space:nowrap'>
disk0.0 = file
{
image = "&#92;Alpha&#92;System.img&quot
}

disk0.1 = file
{
image = "&#92;Alpha&#92;dka100.img&quot
autocreate_size = 2G;
}

disk0.6 = file
{
image = "&#92;Alpha&#92;Alpha_OpenVMS73-2.iso&quot
read_only = true;
cdrom = true;
}
<br><br><br></code>

If you would like to outline the configuration you want, I'll create it and send it to you.

Let us know if you see any difference with the Configuration Utility in version 271.