Tf1260

[Chucky]

As I am on a 3 day FB Jail (don't ask... people are stupid) I cannot write this on Facepalm:

https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/forum/vi...p=69768#p69768

"Alrighty...

In a series of steps aimed towards taking us to an "open file" model of the TF1260 here is the first one. This is FastATA/Burst Firmware. It does not presently have the faster chipram performance. Thats in the pipeline and i have simply not had enough time to work on it. So in the interests of giving people a bit more bang for their buck here is the best "stable" version of the faster firmware. Summary

1. Much faster RAM speeds.
2. Much faster TF IDE.
3. Fix for OS3.2

Nothing else. It will be a shedload faster for real world applications.

Consider this BETA. If it screws up your board you will need to return it to your builder to reset. You will also lose your unique serial number. It will become 999.

If you dont already know how to flash this please do not do it. You need specific hardware and software to do it its not just a file you load etc. The 6ns jed is only if you have installed a 6ns ram CPLD. Ask your builder if unsure."

[Chucky]

"Fix for OS3.2" is technically alread on most cards. I think the 30 first cards might have an issue noticed of no boot if no HDD/Floppy installed

[trixster]

TF1260 IDE speed is now rather good

[fluffkitten]

Originally Posted by trixster

TF1260 IDE speed is now rather good

That is the best speed I've seen reported and it is really good. Tempted to update my card but even something as simple as adding the jtag header is a bit beyond my skills.

[trixster]

No soldering required, you can do it with a raspberry pi and some DuPont cables.

Or wait for the next fw release and ask your card-builder to flash it for you.

[wiz12]

I would love to attempt to update my card but I'm afraid I'd brick it in the process, is there any idiot's guide on how to update it?

[trixster]

https://www.exxoshost.co.uk/forum/vi...hp?f=75&t=4614

I would not say it is an idiot's guide but it has links which explain what to do.

Of course, there is always a risk when doing stuff like this (Rpi crashes or reboots during flash, copy/paste of instructions not followed properly, accidently powering on the amiga whilst simultaneously powering by Pi via GPIO header etc etc), so use said 'guide' at your own risk

[fluffkitten]

Originally Posted by trixster

No soldering required, you can do it with a raspberry pi and some DuPont cables.

Or wait for the next fw release and ask your card-builder to flash it for you.

I've got the pi, the guides are useful and I'm happy with the command line so I may as well see if I can get the cables.


Thanks for the info, might do it myself or as you suggest wait and send it back to supaduper for upgrade.

[Predseda]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but if I do not boot TF1260 using cpuspeed in startup-sequence, the CPU clock will always be factory 50MHz, right?

[klx300r]

@ Predseda


correct

[klx300r]

@Chucky

wow thanks for the update great IDE speed increase but personally I'll wait till faster ram speed update until I upgrade

[gdonner]

Originally Posted by trixster

TF1260 IDE speed is now rather good

Nice indeed--over three times faster than an A4000 stock IDE w/50 MHz A3660 (~1,971,007 bytes/sec)!

[SpeedGeek]

Originally Posted by gdonner

Nice indeed--over three times faster than an A4000 stock IDE w/50 MHz A3660 (~1,971,007 bytes/sec)!

How is A4000 stock IDE and TF1260 upgraded IDE a fair comparison here? I would think an A4000 with PIO2 mod would be a little more fairer. But if that's not available, than why not try comparing stock A4000 IDE with stock A1200 IDE?

[supaduper]

I have had some TF1260 owners ask me how to put the ehide.device into a custom rom, so I have done a quick how to guide below for doing a custom 3.2 and 3.1 rom.

Edit**
you must download latest Versions of Remus and Romspilt for adding ehide.device to OS 3.2.1 , link below
http://www.doobreynet.co.uk/beta/index.html


1. Grab your 3.2 rom file from either your OS 3.2 disk or use `transrom` to grab it from your Amiga
2 Start Romsplit and pick your grabbed 3.2 file and click extract, then save the extracted modules to a folder of your choice.
3. Start Remus , leave the default settings as they are, click on the `Rom Contents` tab then on the right window find and load the 3.2 modules you just saved.
4. using your mouse click and select all the modules and drag them all to the left Build window.
5. Now back to the right window and search for the ehide.device
6. Now drag the ehide.device into the left window, make sure you put it at the bottom of the Build list.( If doing a custom 3.1 rom, you must remove the Workbench.library so there is enough space for the ehide.device and put the Workbench.library into the Libs dir on the System drive otherwise it will not work).

7, Go to the top of the Remus window and in the first dropdown select `Compile`, it will say done in the Build window if successful.

8. So you now have a 512k custom rom, test it in Winuae to see it works. if yes then you are ready to process it for burning to Two eproms
9. using a program like `Epromhexxer` or cartman you need to Spilt the file into two files so `Split Word`( wordwise) will then give you two 256k files ( LO- HI ),you then need to Concatenate both files, basically this means `Double` (select DOUBLE in Epromhexxer) each file so it is 512k, so select each 256k file and concatenate ( Double) it to 512k.

10, you now have two 512k files,so all you need to do now is `Byteswap` each file ( Use Byteswap2 in Epromhexxer) so they can be flashed onto two eproms and used in a real Amiga.

** NOTE
This guide is for rom 3.2, if you are doing a custom 3.1 then `REMOVE` the Workbench.library from the build List, make sure that you then manually replace the Workbench.library back into Libs on the System disk otherwise it will not work

Download Workbench Library here:
http://www.amigaforever.com/classic/download/

Download EpromHexxer here
https://mega.nz/file/hhAByQiL#r7OVUf...yr4Ikz1q7DV3Xg

[Jope]

Why not make a 1MB ROM though, since everyone will be using at least 27c400 chips. Saves you taking out wb.lib, the concatenation step and you have a lot of room left over for activities.

[supaduper]

Originally Posted by Jope

Why not make a 1MB ROM though, since everyone will be using at least 27c400 chips. Saves you taking out wb.lib, the concatenation step and you have a lot of room left over for activities.

Yes I know but just kept it simple for the majority of users

[chucsmom69]

I just wanted to let people know - there are now NON-FPU versions of AmiQuake and AmiDuke for those with the LC CPU I dont know what the speeds are like as havnt had time to test yet.

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by chucsmom69

I just wanted to let people know - there are now NON-FPU versions of AmiQuake and AmiDuke for those with the LC CPU I dont know what the speeds are like as havnt had time to test yet.

I've tested Quake, it's sadly only about 2-3fps even at 75mhz, I guess it really needs an FPU. Not tried Duke yet.

[chucsmom69]

I got round to trying them and trtied them at 80mhz problem is i get some serious instabilty at this speed and it only got me to about 6-7fps. Does have me wondering if there is a better way to run FPU software without an FPU, I have tried FEMU but things just crash with that.

[Predseda]

Is there a software that will tell me which version of FW my board uses?