Terrible Fire Accelerators

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by fgh

Check your boot priorities in hdtoolbox.
DF0 is 5 if I recall correctly, so make sure your boot partitions are below that.

When the K1208 is unplugged the floppy will boot first, but not when the K1208 is plugged in. so there must be something going on with the k1208 itself

[plasmab]

Maybe something to do with Gayle emulation... did you brain damage that out?

[plasmab]

Summary update from my latest video.

DCACHE on TF534S is going nicely. I'm getting no response from the SATA chip. Very strange.

[Magic]

How about the TF030 board with IDE combined with the Kipper2K Socket adapter for an all on one board for the A2000's CPU slot? Would this work?

[8 Bit Dreams]

TF530 (and i hope 534s also) works fine on A2000 as much as i know, you just need a good power supply

[plasmab]

I’m trying to keep the 10cm x 10cm form factor for the 53x series because it’s Uber cheap to produce

[scrappysphinx]

Hi, i am planning to build one of the TF530 boards and am gathering the parts together. I have the PCB and have the CPU/FPU ready to be ordered. I'm slightly concerned about the 2Mb ram though. Is there a way to increase the ram to 8mb? or could i leave the ram off the board and use something like in the pic attached in between the TF530 and the 68000 to get 8mb?

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by scrappysphinx

Hi, i am planning to build one of the TF530 boards and am gathering the parts together. I have the PCB and have the CPU/FPU ready to be ordered. I'm slightly concerned about the 2Mb ram though. Is there a way to increase the ram to 8mb? or could i leave the ram off the board and use something like in the pic attached in between the TF530 and the 68000 to get 8mb?

No it wont work. If you want more than 2Mb dont build a TF530. Its an out and out performance experiment.

[scrappysphinx]

Fair enough buddy. Thanks for the reply

[EzdineG]

Originally Posted by scrappysphinx

Fair enough buddy. Thanks for the reply

This can help:

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=85395

You can add as much as 2.0MB using that board.

[8 Bit Dreams]

Good evening Stephen,
i have one question related TF530+Atari ST:
have bought a 1024STf to be able to test these cards on Atari, hovever, i am getting bombs on startup only. Do You use "special" Atari firmware? what is about IDE? Does it work? Where can i get setup info about using TF with Atari?
Thank You..

PS
thinking about relocator board for ST's, seems there is a chance with shield removed

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by 8 Bit Dreams

Good evening Stephen,
i have one question related TF530+Atari ST:
have bought a 1024STf to be able to test these cards on Atari, hovever, i am getting bombs on startup only. Do You use "special" Atari firmware? what is about IDE? Does it work? Where can i get setup info about using TF with Atari?
Thank You..

PS
thinking about relocator board for ST's, seems there is a chance with shield removed

The 020/030 does not work with TOS 1.x. You need TOS 2.06. I have a TBoard.

[8 Bit Dreams]

Originally Posted by plasmab

The 020/030 does not work with TOS 1.x. You need TOS 2.06. I have a TBoard.

oh, thanks, didn't knew it.. it is an early 1024STf (C070789-001 REV.C with red LED & 1.0 TOS). As far as i know, i can use 1.04 tos only
need a special adapter to be able to use 2.06 TOS..
noticed one problem with computer - seems that there is a RAM issue - only 512Kb from 1024Kb are recognized. Have ordered some diagnostic cartridge PCB's on easyEDA today, will wait till these arrive to proceed

PS
and what about IDE? Is it working?

PPS
took a look at different ST MoBo rev's..it will be a pain to create a relocator as layout is totally different.. there is not so much room as in A500.. currently have only one solution:

something like this..of course 64pin, shield need to be removed, and TF Board will be moved on the back (thank You, Sephen, for the hole in the edge, this can be used now! lol
however, i think the ribbon can be up to 10cm long only...

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by 8 Bit Dreams

oh, thanks, didn't knew it.. it is an early 1024STf (C070789-001 REV.C with red LED & 1.0 TOS). As far as i know, i can use 1.04 tos only
need a special adapter to be able to use 2.06 TOS..
noticed one problem with computer - seems that there is a RAM issue - only 512Kb from 1024Kb are recognized. Have ordered some diagnostic cartridge PCB's on easyEDA today, will wait till these arrive to proceed

PS
and what about IDE? Is it working?

FastMEM and IDE dont work on the ST yet. Nobody has really pushed for me to get it working.

EDIT: IDE doesnt work on the ST for the TF530 because A5 is not wired up. This is corrected on the TF534S.

[8 Bit Dreams]

Originally Posted by plasmab

FastMEM and IDE dont work on the ST yet. Nobody has really pushed for me to get it working.

now i will!
i think it will be a lot of fun!
And don't forget to let it work on A1000...
kidding.. just wanna let You know, if You will start to do something with ST's - i will be there to test and report, cause i really love ST's, it's a great computer in my opinion, and it deserves 030 CPU and other things Amiga have already...

[plasmab]

Look at what Exxosuk has done with the ST. He's the benchmark.

[8 Bit Dreams]

Originally Posted by plasmab

Look at what Exxosuk has done with the ST. He's the benchmark.

yeah, i know Exxosuk has a lot of interesting products for ST's..
i am not sure will You understand, but im not so excited to install ready built product, much more fun is to build something up..and if it's working....it's:
"living a dream!" (c) Terrible Fire

[plasmab]

The tf530 needs some work on the ST. I am starting to think of a better way to make the clock crossing more reliable

[alexh]

Originally Posted by plasmab

I am starting to think of a better way to make the clock crossing more reliable

Clock crossing? ASYNC dual-port FIFO? I guess the CPLD/FPGA on this board may not have those?

[plasmab]

Fifo doesn’t help when it’s marshalling a clock cycle. Its flags not data.