Expansion board for the CD32

[alenppc]

Otherwise you can open the console and see what's printed on the chip.
You can also try different combinations of CF cards and CF adapters.

[cip060]

By accident, does anyone have an amiga cd 32 volume lever as a spare part?
And a top cover that broke the opening of the cd rom

[E-Penguin]

Seems to be v40.60 so off to eBay for another CF adapter. Can anyone recommend one?



Also, tips on how to put the sodding rf shield back on greatly appreciated.

[solidcore]

Originally Posted by E-Penguin

Seems to be v40.60 so off to eBay for another CF adapter. Can anyone recommend one?



Also, tips on how to put the sodding rf shield back on greatly appreciated.

i use the couple quid ones off ebay mate, the CF card itself is usually the issue mate. Try the wiki on the github it has a page regarding working cf cards.

[alenppc]

Something like this should work: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-44-pin-...8AAOSwEzxYPwR5

Also do you have any other brands of CF cards to try with?

[E-Penguin]

I'll put in an order for a SanDisk 8gb on amazon prime. Unless you could recommend a better one?

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Edited to add : got the shield back on. Not a job for big hands. I'd leave it off but it seems to provide good mechanical support for the TF328.

[alenppc]

8GB works fine, you just have to patch the scsi.device to support large drives (easily done)

[solidcore]

E-penguin yep the shield is ideal in that respect however make sure you don't let them touch one another ! Boom

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

here is a pic of my latest device for a1200 and cd32.



and...



both drives are read/writeable. Lower CF card is the master

haha nice! love the heatshield too

[RiotRetroGaming]

Originally Posted by E-Penguin

Found a mouse, booted up with just the riser and TF328. At the early boot screen the expansion board diagnostic says :
Board number 1
Manufacturer 5080
Product 40
Status working.

So at least the cpld looks OK. I'm going to pick up a new CF card tonight and a cd writer and see if I can get to some kind of workbench.

Don't forget the wiki!

https://github.com/terriblefire/tf328/wiki

[alenppc]

So far I got several people reporting 40.56 kickstart roms inside their machine. It's confirmed that the IDE interface doesn't work on these. Unfortunately my eprom programmer can't read 1mb roms so would anyone be willing to dump a programmer friendly 40.60 rom image? As far as I know these are not available for purchase new.

[E-Penguin]

You can get the 3.1 here

http://amigastore.eu/en/523-rom-31-amiga-cd32.html

When you say programmer-friendly; does that rule out something like running transrom on the machine itself? what format does the programmer need? I'm useless at hardware but I'm happy to whip up some software to convert between binary image formats.

[alenppc]

The cd32 ROM uses some weird interleaved image format so you can't take a regular rom file and burn it. I am not sure how to recreate this so I figured the easiest way would be to plop a 40.60 into a compatible programmer and dump the contents.

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by alenppc

The cd32 ROM uses some weird interleaved image format so you can't take a regular rom file and burn it. I am not sure how to recreate this so I figured the easiest way would be to plop a 40.60 into a compatible programmer and dump the contents.

I think you will find that the rom image needs to be byte swapped when writing, same as the a600

[E-Penguin]

I think there's a thread here on EAB where Toni explains about the ROM layout, but I can't find it.

[plasmab]

You just write the upper 512K first and the lower 512k second. See what diagram sources do because they make a cd32 rom from a binary


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[RiotRetroGaming]

Good news on the Edu Riser at last!
The PIC is fixed and working on ALL PS2 keyboards (yes, I've been pushing him and annoying him trying to find a fix).
He also has some other new hardware you guys might like.
I'll update the wiki toomorrow.

Have a butchers if you like -

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[plasmab]

Back from holiday. Relisted my remaining TF328 board stock on eBay if anyone wants one with the logo and gold finish.


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[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by plasmab

Back from holiday. Relisted my remaining TF328 board stock on eBay if anyone wants one with the logo and gold finish.


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Welcome back to sunny Glasgow , time to put your new lab to good use with more videos, been too quiet

[plasmab]

Heh. Passed my FAA IR written on Saturday and off to Belfast first thing tomorrow to try and get a visa for the flying part of the course


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