Cough *BOLLOX* Cough! :D

You really think so? I have no figures to give but less than 1000 would mean I owned 1% of the worlds Amiga Accelerators!

I'd be disappointed if my board only makes "twice the speed". I+D cache, burst and fewer waitstates should give some additional zing. Care for a race?
(picture taken during a development stage where memory was manually added, that's why system stuff is in chipmem).

Jens

Mostly debuggers/monitors such as Asm-One's debugger or HRT-Mon.

Ah ok. Well as far as I know HRTMon is supported by that mod (actually is supposed to be used with it) and on the old school and outdated side Beermon aswell (works with ks1.2/1.3 which HRT does not). HRTMon is to the best of my knowledge still being actively updated.

Although I don't want to encourage anyone to tinker on the boards (see discussion over at a1k.org), I can assist by marking the IPL0/IPL1/IPL2 lines on the accelerator(s). I'm not a programmer, more like an oldschool hacker and with very limited assembly knowledge. I found that my "personal survival kit" (cmon and megamon) are qute rarely used tools, probably because they're neither available on PD disk collections, nor on Aminet. They remind me of the good old S-MON on the C64 :-)

This is the first time I hear abour HRT-Mon - will take a look. I found a 1998 version on Aminet including all sources - can anyone check if it's complete, if the toolchain can still be set up after 12 years?

Jens

Latest HRTMon http://whdload.de/whdload/Tools/

Sounds good! I was gonna post a link to the latest HRT but Toni W beat me to it. (:

Btw, do you know where I could find those monitors you mentioned? I'm curious to try them out. (:

HRT-Mon can be assembled without any problems. Not much of a toolchain required either.

Can't find them on this computer right now, but I've uploaded them to the A1K forum a while ago:

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.ph...3&postcount=81

just remove the ".pdf" - board limitation.

Toni, thanks for the link. HRTmon seems to be a lot more powerful than these old hackertools from A1000-days.

Jens

Thanx Jens, snatched them from a1k.

I suppose That it Will be compatible With indivision ECS for the A600...
No need for A603 I mean
Kml

Errmm.. I can't put a socket for Indivision ECS on the accelerator - the chip bus signals are not available on the CPU. However, the accelerator will deal with the A603/Indivision ECS setup in two ways: Mechanical fit and an optional bootselector that lets you map the external drives to df0: to df2: instead of df1: to df3: - kinda like the CDTV, which also has all drives external. This way, it's not that painful to remove the internal drive.

Jens

It's probably because an FPU is easy to add to a design. It takes exactly the same amount of logic and pins to tell the 68030 that there is no FPU (equation for the BERR signal is equal to the FPU_CS equation - for those who know a few details about the '030).

"If you generate that signal anyway, you might as well add the socket" is probably what designers back in the days were thinking. However, if you do the math, then...:

Sorry - that was the technical explanation of "an FPU would jeopardize the high fastmem speed". I tend to go into detail too much...

Jens

A discounted bundle of the new A600 accelerator + A603 + Indivision ECS would be cool. I'd be in.

Especially if the VGA cable was long enough to reach the place where the RF modulator used to be on my A600.

is it fesable to put a scsi controller on these cards as well ??

What for?

What type? DMA capable? What target bandwidth?

well if we going have a fast machine a fast HDD to keep up would be nice

Is SCSI performance on accelerators (except Cyberstorm MKIII/PPC) any good?

I doubt you can buy the SCSI chips that were used in the old days anymore.

They don't make internal 2.5" SCSI hard drives which is what you want for an A1200/A600 desktop. I always wondered what desktop owners did with their SCSI controllers? Do we really want to be messing about & filling our cases with unnecessary SCSI->IDE->CF adapters again?

Would it not be more practical to include an improved (over Gayle's PIO 0) 2.5" IDE controller which could be part of the FPGA (if they have enough pins)?

It is probably too late in the day to add features??

Jens, it means you solved that problem that prevented you from completing development of A600 turboboard 3 years ago?

yeps seems I had scsi on the brain for last few days should have really asked for a faster HDD interface than the one on the motherboard