01 January 2017, 14:44 | #1 |
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Terrible Fire Accelerators
After posting a fair bit on other peoples threads I thought i should actually start my own one and keep the noise off their threads...
Ethos of my project is to produce designs that are GPL for the Amiga and ST. I have no intention of selling these directly (although i may sell my excess) and I am happy for anyone to make and sell these boards (and time permitting I will support anyone who does) but if you modify the design you must publish the modifications (and I will enforce that). The boards I have created are... TF520 - 68020 research board (No RAM, No IDE, No FPU) TF530 - 68030 board (32bit 2Mb 12ns Static RAM - Zorro II, Experimental IDE, 32 bit FPU). TF328 - CD32 RAM + IDE Board (8Mb 32 bit DRAM + Gayle Emulated IDE). TF534S - 68030 (32bit 4Mb 55ns Static RAM - Zorro III, SATA, 32bit FPU) TF534I - 68030 (32bit 4Mb 55ns Static RAM - Zorro III, 44Pin IDE, 32bit FPU) Planned TF540S - 68040FEV (fixed frequency 25Mhz) (32bit 32Mb SDRAM, SATA, NO FPU) Last edited by plasmab; 12 April 2018 at 22:01. |
01 January 2017, 15:03 | #2 |
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Ohhh,,, I get it. You are working up to a full CD32 accelerator, by practising making boards as small as you can, at each stage.
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Amazing work PlasmaB... can't wait to see something for the CD32.
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01 January 2017, 16:23 | #4 |
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Don't suppose anyone knows if this is what an FPU is supposed to look like when memory mapped?
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01 January 2017, 16:56 | #5 |
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Just posted a new video..
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01 January 2017, 18:22 | #6 |
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Some A500 frame limited game suggestions needed. How can i show off the speed on camera.
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The classic example is Frontier Elite II.
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nice project, respect. cool board design
there was a game demo by gunnar (apollo/vampire), 194x - which had a framecounter, but i cannot find a link for it. IIRC it should run on any amiga, so it could be a benchmark for your board aswell. maybe someone else can provide a link. |
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Found it
http://www.greyhound-data.com/gunnar...page=downloads Unfortunately its 16mb of ram + GFX card only. Oh well. |
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Elite doesn't have any weirdo requirements if needed you can even run it of floppy.
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yep, thats the one - I could not remember the requirements
yes, indeed, but something with a framecounter/fps display would be of good help, i thought. |
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When tinkering with the Minimig FPGA core I tended to use Zeewolf 2 - it benefits both from the faster CPU and also from Fast RAM.
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That and Epic might be good.
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Ha. Very good choice for testing purposes. Frontier on an A3000 25MHz was pretty much stutter free, but I've no idea what the frame rate was...20Hz or better, I guess. NTSC mode helps too, IIRC.
MicroProse sims like GS2000 or M1 Tank Platoon are pretty good, because LIKE Frontier, they also have some attempt at real physical world modelling. BUT all Microprose sims were password protected, I think. Not sure about that, but they would be good test alternatives, in my opinion. I can't remember many others off the top of my head. Driving, flying, and racing games are probably a good genre. You might want to consider loading at non-floppy speeds, and a lot of sims are multi-floppy. M1 Tank Platoon isn't. TerribleFire, I'm not too sure what I can do to help, apart from maybe try building a couple in a couple months, and I'm awfully busy for a week or so, but... ... after that, I'll get Eagle fired up and see if I can look your projects over and help suggest stuff. I'm not a great developer and pretty slow, and it's a slow boat you're taking in the long run. But I like your goals very much. I think the longest Amiga MC program I've ever written was about half a K. And that spent 99% of it's time executing NOPs. But, it was a real time app, and works very nicely. Never released any of that stuff, haven't coded for 20 years. Last edited by Pat the Cat; 01 January 2017 at 21:35. |
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Thank you plasmab for your efforts and especially for caring about the CD32 I'll be looking with great interest, hoping someone goes and builds some of your boards "en masse" for us to be able to get them.
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Indeed. I did an implemenation of the Archie for the MiST board...
https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-b...r/cores/archie There is a bit of tension between Apollo and MiST... I feel like i'm a bit stuck in the middle. |
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plasmab once you designed your 030 board with everything on it working wouldnt it be easy to keep that board and just swap the cpu to the 040 but keep all the other features of the 030 board?
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I understand why you might think that but I invite you to try it once i push the sources.. should do that later this week. EDIT: The schematic is the easy bit. Its routing that takes time. Last edited by plasmab; 01 January 2017 at 22:39. |
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