Terrible Fire Accelerators

[whiteb]

Originally Posted by plasmab

It will appear this week somtime.. really sorry for not getting them out today but my son returned with his mum and proceeded to be violently sick everywhere...

perils of children.

eeww, I know that.., luckily its only been in bed for my twins so just a change of bed sheets. Unless it was in long fibre carpets

If I have a 40Mhz chip, can I just use a 33 Mhz Jedec file with a 33 Mhz clock ? I know the CPU wont give a shit about being underclocked or is there a 40 Mhz as well ? Couldnt tell from the video if there was a 40 Mhz Jed.

[Tachyon]

I found a perfect side project for some Amiga driver coding wizard once the SPI interface is stable and has a fixed configuration.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Ethernet-Modu...-/201849490261

inexpensive, readily available, Ethernet with an SPI interface. Small enough to fit inside many Amiga cases. Plus everyone can just go buy their own and install it without having to spend a fortune on some version of the same thing with a proprietary interface by some company profiteering off the desperation of the vintage computing community for new hardware.

That's what I like about this project, it's open source and uses standard protocols and interfaces like SPI to allow others to take it and expand it, customize it, etc.
This community needs to transition to this kind of thinking if it's going to do more than just survive into the future.

[whiteb]

Originally Posted by Tachyon

I found a perfect side project for some Amiga driver coding wizard once the SPI interface is stable and has a fixed configuration.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Ethernet-Modu...-/201849490261

inexpensive, readily available, Ethernet with an SPI interface. Small enough to fit inside many Amiga cases. Plus everyone can just go buy their own and install it without having to spend a fortune on some version of the same thing with a proprietary interface by some company profiteering off the desperation of the vintage computing community for new hardware.

That's what I like about this project, it's open source and uses standard protocols and interfaces like SPI to allow others to take it and expand it, customize it, etc.
This community needs to transition to this kind of thinking if it's going to do more than just survive into the future.

That .............. is unique

Although I am a bit confused by the description

"Power Supply:3.3V ,Current should more than 200mA"

should BE more than 200mA, or should NOT be more than 200mA ?

I think they are saying the power supply should be more than 200mA to the Ether interface.

[whiteb]

Geezus DirtyPCB's do not muck around do they.....

June 18, 2017 02:54AM Order received Thanks for your order! Paypal # $27.95.
June 19, 2017 01:01AM In production PCB manufacturing has started. Gerber files cannot be updated.

Order placed on a Sunday too

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by whiteb

Geezus DirtyPCB's do not muck around do they.....



June 18, 2017 02:54AM Order received Thanks for your order! Paypal # $27.95.

June 19, 2017 01:01AM In production PCB manufacturing has started. Gerber files cannot be updated.



Order placed on a Sunday too

Monday morning is a cutoff... they send stuff to the board house then.


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[plasmab]

Originally Posted by whiteb

That .............. is unique



Although I am a bit confused by the description



"Power Supply:3.3V ,Current should more than 200mA"



should BE more than 200mA, or should NOT be more than 200mA ?



I think they are saying the power supply should be more than 200mA to the Ether interface.

You'll need an external 3.3V supply on the TF530 for that. The regulator might struggle and the power lines are borderline to carry that current.


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[hooverphonique]

Originally Posted by Tachyon

I found a perfect side project for some Amiga driver coding wizard once the SPI interface is stable and has a fixed configuration.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Ethernet-Modu...-/201849490261

I think there are plenty Arduino shields using SPI for ethernet connectivity, so networking using SPI should hold numerous options.

[plasmab]

I have a bunch of SPI NICs. Think there's even SPI graphics cards. FTDI etc

FTDI EVE is the chip I'm thinking of


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[keith]

Hi Plasmab, hope you had a good father's day & the amazing weather! Just wondering will the ide wait state be a fixed with both r1 change plus firmware or just hardware mod with r1, or is this still a work in progress, sorry for asking as I know you're very busy at the moment.

[plasmab]

Originally Posted by keith

Hi Plasmab, hope you had a good father's day & the amazing weather! Just wondering will the ide wait state be a fixed with both r1 change plus firmware or just hardware mod with r1, or is this still a work in progress, sorry for asking as I know you're very busy at the moment.

R1 will need changed but the issue you are seeing seems more fundamental. Try the 33mhz firmware when it appears. Soon I hope.

Work is frantic until the end of June


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[keith]

Originally Posted by plasmab

R1 will need changed but the issue you are seeing seems more fundamental. Try the 33mhz firmware when it appears. Soon I hope.

Work is frantic until the end of June


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Thanks for every thing! Btw I am running fine back @24mhz on very original firmware, I can now walk, but just wanted to fly! Thanks once again!

[plasmab]

Do you have an FPU? Also what is your CPU version and masks?


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[alenppc]

@keith are you experiencing any IDE issues? What kind of a configuration do you have? What kind of a CF card adapter and what kind of a CF card?

Apparently the Vampire also has issues with certain types of CF card adapters.

[plasmab]

@alenppc have you tried your cf card/adapter on an A600? The TF530 is supposed to emulate that exactly.


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[alenppc]

@plasmab, yeah no issues on 600/1200. Very strange.

[plasmab]

Ok. I see no issues on the a500 but I do see them on the ST.


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[jgilcas]

Originally Posted by alenppc

@keith are you experiencing any IDE issues? What kind of a configuration do you have? What kind of a CF card adapter and what kind of a CF card?

Apparently the Vampire also has issues with certain types of CF card adapters.

Hi everybody.

@plasmab thanks a lot for your work i saw the last video, wow.

@alenppc i have same issues as you, i tried a few CF adapters, and a few IDE harddisk, i want to try with an ide-sata adapter but i don´t know maximun capacity of HD the amiga can detect.

I hope i can help, it´s my only intention is to help

Thanks a lot.

PD.: Sorry about my english level.

[alenppc]

@jgilcas cool, happy that others are also able to reproduce the bug, it means it wasn't me who screwed something up.

Don't worry about the maximum drive size, the one I was using in the photo posted above is a 60 GB drive I took out of a playstation 3, but I partitioned it under WinUAE to a single partition under 4 GB.

You can access the rest of the space if needed with OS3.9/patches later.

Also just watching plasmabs latest video right now. Love seeing the the Atari ST in action, never actually used one myself.

[EzdineG]

@alenppc

With INT2 connected, I can't get any machines to post on REV 3, regardless of R1 resistor, Witt our without HD attached. It is incredibly finicky about the connected device, and I believe my issue is CF->IDE and SD->IDE converters that are attempting to pull power from the port (I've tested with/without additional power connected to them and they still light up.). I'm wondering if your non corrupting hard drive is adding capacitance/resistance to some of the lines.

The ST always gets a bad rap. I feel there is an elegance to it; I can "feel" it in GEM and the engineering of the hardware. Though it won't ever replace my Amigas or 8-bit Ataris, it will always have a place here. If you get a chance, pick one up IMO.

[plasmab]

Very odd. I haven't changed anything about INT2 between rev 2 and 3.


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