31 December 2016, 00:11 | #1 |
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Open Source A500 accelerator cooking nicely
It's called the TerribleFire, and that's how the poster appears on twitter and youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu4...y1ILAxNh7TGsmQ What makes these (020 and 030) boards a little different is - open source. You can download the board designs and get them made up by a third party. Then either add the chips yourself or pay somebody else to do that. https://github.com/terriblefire/tf520 It's not a Vampire but still pretty good that new boards are being developed. This one on a shoe string budget in Glasgow, Scotland, by Stephen Leary. |
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Looks good, but without RAM it's probably a waste of fine 68020 processors.
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31 December 2016, 01:53 | #3 |
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Give him a little credit... look to the right of the CPU.
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http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...9&postcount=92 - author himself.
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31 December 2016, 01:58 | #5 |
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Maybe, but he's never, ever started a thread on this board. According to his profile, anyway.
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Well, you are right in saying an accelerator card without memory is a waste of effort... but not true, in this case.
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The 020 with SRAM is about to be updated to Github, he just wants to make sure its working 100% (Its in the video), he just doesnt want anyone running off to build them before he is happy. Last edited by whiteb; 31 December 2016 at 08:43. |
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Hey I just noticed this thread.
Just finished populating the board... The FPU and IDE still don't have firmware yet but the SRAM is working (albeit) using the slow async bus at the moment. Will make burst work eventually Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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The 030 board is a stab at seeing what can fit on a 10cm x 10cm board. |
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Well, I think you're doing great work. Please keep it up.
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RAM benchmarks at 16Mhz... not even using STERM yet. FPU is not working at all... v strange Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Always great to see these cool hobby projects on the Amiga and complete with code/layout releases is the way to go :-)
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From what I can tell we simply assert the chip select during the correct CPU SPACE cycle. I have used a 32 bit wide bus.. i wonder if that actually causes issues.
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All I can pick up from the datasheets, is that to configure the 68882 to 32bit bus, A0 and Size must be strapped HIGH. I dont know how that works in the 68030 with FPU on the same chip.
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This any use? Original 1988 datasheet on the 68882.
Probably already got, if you've got that far. http://www.rlocman.ru/i/File/dat/Fre...68882EI16A.pdf Figure 11, page 14 has some diagrams explaining. EDIT EDIT: Weird, need +5V on A0 of the 68882... would never have guessed that. |
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Oh, so it's your card, plasmab. Good to see you're not sticking to the old Frances/Lucas layouts.
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VCC to A0 and SIZ. 32 Bit bus wired and DSACK0/DSACK1 wired to the 030. Not much to go wrong here from what i can tell. If i get nowhere i'll drop the FPU into memory space and poke at it from there. (One of the amazing things about the CPLD setup i have) Last edited by plasmab; 01 January 2017 at 10:42. |
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