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31 December 2016, 04:41 | #282 |
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Good time to try, the 200 version of sonnet.library is quite stable.
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04 January 2017, 01:52 | #283 |
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News for owners of the 400/512 boards, it appears the board is upgradeable to 1MB L2 cache with no other modifications needed. Once I verify it's totally stable I'll update the wiki. It is terribly expensive however at about 14USD.
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Haha yes, terribly expensive! The high cost is comparable to the overwhelming abundance of these cards out in the wild
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Well stated esc. You know the design isn't very complicated, actually we have found there is no custom logic on the card other than a 1k serial ROM. I think anyone who had the skills could sit down and reproduce this card (or something quite a bit better) with just a bit of effort. The MPC107 and compatible CPUs are in decent supply if someone wanted to make a hundred of these. Making thousands might be a problem but a few hundred would not be a problem based on supply logistics alone.
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Man, that's pretty interesting. I'm by no means qualified to do this work, but is there someone we may be able to dragoon into working on this (for an appropriate fee of course!).
Imagine an A1200 with a Vampire accelerator for 68k and a Sonnet PPC card. :drool: |
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I'm sure you could throw a pebble at a1k.org and hit someone capable of doing it.
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05 January 2017, 04:41 | #288 |
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Do they speak English there?
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Also, has anyone tried working with a different sonnet crescendo card? Seems the ones designed for the 7300 (PCI) are more common.
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There is an international section of a1k.org for English speakers.
The Sonnet Crescendo 7300 is a Processor direct slot for those later Power Macs not a PCI card so it won't work. |
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Ah, gotcha. I assumed it was used in a PCI slot due to the label on the box
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06 January 2017, 22:41 | #293 |
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@DarrenHD I seem to recall discussion about a resident lib that would live patch WOS software so applications would be click-ready OOTB...but I reserve the right to be wrong. :P
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And yes IdleWOS works now as does Warpstat and those type of apps. Last edited by grelbfarlk; 06 January 2017 at 22:47. Reason: more info |
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The latest library is really quite nice how optimized it is. Amidog's version of MAME plays a lot of games with frameskip 1 as in 60fps, not sure though since the frame counter doesn't work. The few Neogeo games I've tried play perfectly. WES version of MAME runs the later games at a very nice speed as well.
We've also been playing around with FPSE, Amidog's Playstation emulator, and Syndicate Wars seems to run fine at around 60% CPU load (measured with idlewos) no sound emulation though. Quake 2 is a bit faster as well, I hit 52fps at 640x480 on demo1. There might be new, cool, convoluted stuff coming soon, but I'd hate to raise expectations for things that might not work out. |
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I had to look up convoluted.... but now you make me wonder what this stuff will be! Already having high expectations now.
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It could be anything! It could be nothing! It could be things that would be neat but just don't work!
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Anyway, I have a CS MK3 out for repair, this one not overclocked. When it comes back I will put that in and do a clean OS 3.9BB2 install, then install the Mediator stuff and then the Sonnet.lha. Hopefully that will help |
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Setpatch NOROMUPDATE makedir RAM:ENV assign ENV: RAM:ENV copy ENVARC:#? to ENV: ALL c:loadmondrvs then start with no Startup-sequence and execute s:starfish Then initsonnet, see what happens. Also make sure Winsize and Master Jumpers are ON and swap config is OFF Last edited by grelbfarlk; 13 January 2017 at 00:00. |
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