K1208 8mb Fastmem board for the A1200

[kipper2k]

Hi All,

I have mentioned this in the cd32 thread, i think it is time to give it its own thread.

The K1208 8MB Fastmem board is up and running. The board is basically a reworked Terrible Fire TF328 by Stephen Leary that has been redesigned to fit in the trapdoor of the A1200 . Due to the space limitation i converted it to a 4 layer board. The board has IDE (currently disabled) and a RTC circuit on board. Many thanks to Solidcore for updating the code to disable the K1208 IDE portion of the code to allow the A1200 IDE to work without conflict.

I am still looking for quirks/bugs etc but it looks good, sysinfo speed is 2820.

More info later

[FREEMILK]

This is great news congrats on offering a low cost solution for a1200 users, and thanks to Stephen Leary as well.

Looking forward to filling my a1200s belly soon

[alexh]

Interesting. Good luck with it. I'm sure at a good price it has a place.

It would be good if you can investigate the patched card.resource which allows you to use the full 8MiB and the PCMCIA at the same time.

http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...&postcount=226
http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...0&postcount=28

Otherwise you'll need a jumper which can select between 4MiB and 8MiB to allow the PCMCIA slot to work.

[solidcore]

Alexh I'll likely be looking into it for the next firmware update as myself and Kipper have an interest in resolving that issue.

[alexh]

I edited my post and added the links to the SW required. Untested of course.

[plasmab]

its on my list to look at the IDE interface for the board after my TF534 bring up

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by plasmab

its on my list to look at the IDE interface for the board after my TF534 bring up

Yippee

[alexh]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

Yippee

Out of curiosity what does that mean?

Surely the A1200 has a Gayle IDE and so this card doesn't need IDE? Just take out the code (which solidcore has done) and voila?

[plasmab]

My goal was to give a second working IDE. It’s physically there so why not use it. Should just require a recompiled scsi.device called 2nd.scsi.device in the Devs folder

[kipper2k]

Hi All,

i have a couple of new things today, here is one of of them...



click here for supersize

So far, the 8mb fastmem is working (2820 drhystones) and the clock works, there are a couple of other things on there that are waiting for a bit of TLC

The Rom on this a1200 is a dual selectable rom diagrom/3.1KS

[patrik]

Does the IDE-interface respond at different addresses for its Gayle emulation than the already present Gayle chip?

[plasmab]

Oh I want that ROM selector. Got one for an a500?

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by patrik

Does the IDE-interface respond at different addresses for its Gayle emulation than the already present Gayle chip?

Gayle emulation is brain damaged out. I havent done the firmware update yet

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by plasmab

Oh I want that ROM selector. Got one for an a500?

Yup,

i will send you one monday

(it will work on all A500 revisions, there are jumper blobs underneath to select which version

[plasmab]

Nice. Will save me a load of time with uv erase

[solidcore]

Update: I'll be soldering the first revision (Without RTC/SD) k1208 next week, I'll try to modify the CPLD firmware as it stands with its braindead ide to instead support SPI over some of the pins on the IDE header, assuming there wont be any issues in doing that? The more flavors of Amiga with SPI the better, the later revision board (pictured in kipper2k's photo) may support both IDE and SPI in the end.

Bprepared will also be joining me in the journey with his first revision k1208.

[AwoLStill]

I deffo want to build one of these
- 8MB fast is enough of a reason for me,
SPI bonus,
IDE bonus,
- but neither of those things are requirements for me.
I've got the BoM from TerribleFire GitHub, I will watch this thread with great interest

Great to see!

[AwoLStill]

p.s.
If I will need a Kipper2k Trapdoor2PCI connector converter, please put me down for two - if they are available at some point in future :-)

[mpattonm]

Incredible! Thank you for your work on another GPL project. I would love to contribute, where can I download design data (modified schematics, board layout, FW)?

[solidcore]

@AwolStill I've let Kipper2k know that you're interested in a few of the adapters.

@mpattonm at this time the schematics/gerbers are not released yet but hopefully when Kipper2k gets round to it.

Currently the SPI (SD slot in the latest k1208's case) amiga drivers need contributing to over on Plasmab's thread ( http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=85380&page=127 ) for generally all of the TerribleFire cards (can use IDE header to test regardless of no spi port I believe). you can find plasmab's work on the tf530 spi branch here ( https://github.com/terriblefire/tf530/tree/spi_alpha ).

The other thing that needs work is 2nd IDE. Since the IDE Gayle's of the a1200 and the original tf328 firmware (of which the k1208 is based from) collide we've had to disable the gayle on the k1208, as above plasmab suggests a 2nd scsi II device - perhaps how a Dataflyer 1200 Scsi ( http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.co...t.aspx?id=1176 ) does the job. I am not 100% sure if you could do this on a tf328 for now and contribute the code later, if so that'd be nice way to contribute.