25 February 2015, 08:08 | #1 |
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A1000 prototype found (velvet)
http://scacom.bplaced.net/Collection/velvet/velveten.php
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25 February 2015, 10:35 | #2 |
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Niiiice! I hope the ROM does find its way to the internets
It would be a shame to risk losing it! |
25 February 2015, 14:21 | #3 |
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Definitely. Perhaps someone from Cloanto can contact the owner and get those EPROMs dumped; since they hold the rights, they could give permission.
Some points of interest: It uses 6526 CIAs, not 8520. The change to 8520s must have come fairly late in the development process. The Daphne/Denise chip is marked AM4705A. Paula used to have an early name like that; 4703 is mentioned in the Hardware Reference Manual. There is no AmigaDOS or Intuition in the Kickstart ROM (if the list of modules is complete). I wonder if the trackdisk disk format had been finalised at that point. Examining the Kickstart data could provide an answer, and also figure out the requirements for creating a bootable disk. |
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Disk CIA pins seem to be differently wired. No one knows what kind of disk format it uses (it has no dos and no dos filesystem in rom). No one has floppies that originally came with it. It only shows some green garbage on screen (second copper list contains garbage, first copper list is same as in later official roms). Real hardware shows same corruption. Lots of unknowns. It writes some debug info to serial port: Code:
AMIGA ROM Operating System and Libraries. Copyright 1984 by Commodore Amiga, Inc.. exec Version 23.93 (Tue Feb 12 11:53:20 PST 1985). . Dancing April Fool's GFXLIB 24.20 Apr 1,1985. timer Version 23.207 (Thu Mar 7 19:38:02 PST 1985).. TrackDiscDriver/Init: running on a Paula.. TrackDiscDriver Version 23.285 (Thu Mar 7 19:48:54 PST 1985).. graphics vector nop. graphics vector nop. audio Ver 24.3 (Thu Mar 7 17:25:04 PST 1985).. .. resources: CIA:0x15D0 disk.resource:0x1618 .. devices: timer:0x1B6A TrackDiscDriver:0x1CBA Keyboard:0x1EBA GamePort:0x2020 Console:0x23B8 .. libraries: exec:0x1282 graphics:0x1888 math:0x1AEC Utility:0x1E2A input.library: 0x230A audio:0x39B4 debug:0x3B2C .. |
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26 February 2015, 20:59 | #7 |
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just a question... why is this thread in Coders.Asm forum?
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26 February 2015, 22:33 | #8 |
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I wonder if this developer system is related? Although it seems even 'older' than the REV3 Velvet there...
http://only.amiga.free.fr/index.php?...eres&Itemid=50 Last edited by Paul_s; 26 February 2015 at 22:38. |
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Unfortunately images are too low quality and resolution. ROM dumps would help but those ancient eproms may lose bits anytime now.. |
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The Velvet board only has 128KB chip RAM; it looks like a setting for that needs to be added to WinUAE...
Kickstart 1.0 and 1.1 should work with 128KB chip RAM. Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 show a yellow screen. The metal-cased development system is clearly older. But its Kickstart EPROMs have 24.60 written on the labels, so are probably newer than the velvet one. My guess is both systems would be mostly compatible at the software level. The older one has some clues about ancient history though; cartridge slot at the front and guides/connector for the cartridge. The cut-out in the casing for the floppy drive is 5.25" size; since the Amiga was originally going to have a 5.25" drive. Last edited by mark_k; 28 February 2015 at 02:21. |
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28 February 2015, 21:25 | #12 |
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Just being curious (and I couldn't find the answer in the docs and settings from a cursory glance): Does WinUAE support the A1000 WOM?
Is there anything else than Dragon's Lair that can use it? Possibly some intro/demo that wrote out hacked/custom KS? |
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Yes it does.
A-Max can use it for extra RAM, maybe some Atari ST emulator can too? |
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amazing!!!! thanks for the link
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It'd be nice to own either system imo, the Lorraine system sold for $1750 in the end (minus custom pcbs - I'm pretty sure they still exist) |
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The wire-wrapped breadboards are not, as far as I know, from the same stage of development as the black-box developer system.
They appeared in the same photos, sure. Maybe someone who used to work for Amiga exhibited both units at a computer show or user group etc. |
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Yes, who knows... anyway I doubt commodore did a spin of the chips in Yxx before RGB.
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