TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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I’m running this firmware on my new tf1260/rev1 full 060 @ 50Mhz and it is working extremely well - I have only one thing to report and that is that the Nexus 7 demo runs generally a bit slowly compared to my old Blizzard 1230, and gets very slow indeed when it reaches the searchlight part.

I’m on a 1d4 board and running the latest WHDload slave for Nexus 7, if I run the standalone EXE it doesn’t get past the first bit with the star field (star field stays forever but music changes as normal). Not sure if the work done on the tf1230 for this demo has already fixed this in future 1260 firmware but reporting just in case it’s helpful to anyone.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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lilwashu wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 2:42 pm I’m running this firmware on my new tf1260/rev1 full 060 @ 50Mhz and it is working extremely well - I have only one thing to report and that is that the Nexus 7 demo runs generally a bit slowly compared to my old Blizzard 1230, and gets very slow indeed when it reaches the searchlight part.

I’m on a 1d4 board and running the latest WHDload slave for Nexus 7, if I run the standalone EXE it doesn’t get past the first bit with the star field (star field stays forever but music changes as normal). Not sure if the work done on the tf1230 for this demo has already fixed this in future 1260 firmware but reporting just in case it’s helpful to anyone.
Just tried Nexus 7 here. No joy. Stuck on the starfield. TBH i'd need a coder to tell my why it hangs here. Looks like a software bug related to cache on the surface of it.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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I know what this issue is. I'll add a fix for the next TFx60 firmware pack.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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Hi

Would like to report that the Alpha Firmware (1000) works with my TF1260 made by superduper.
REV1 68EC060RC50 Mask 01F43G (Marked as EC but does have an MMU & FPU)
2B Amiga Technologies Motherboard.
One thing to report :-
Its possible to switch the speed to 62.50 Mhz. However, the internal IDE locks up immediately at this speed. Its not a complete freeze just IDE lockup.
With firmware 999 @ 62.50 Mhz the internal IDE is OK.
Just reporting encase its useful information.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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jurassicc wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:35 pm Hi

Would like to report that the Alpha Firmware (1000) works with my TF1260 made by superduper.
REV1 68EC060RC50 Mask 01F43G (Marked as EC but does have an MMU & FPU)
2B Amiga Technologies Motherboard.
One thing to report :-
Its possible to switch the speed to 62.50 Mhz. However, the internal IDE locks up immediately at this speed. Its not a complete freeze just IDE lockup.
With firmware 999 @ 62.50 Mhz the internal IDE is OK.
Just reporting encase its useful information.
It is very unlikely that any rev1 will be able to go past 50 mhz on the alpha firmware. None of the rev1 CPUs I tried manage to do that. Remember that you can also try 58 and 60 Mhz, if you are REALLY lucky they might work for you.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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@alenppc
The CPU is still running, it only the IDE interface which appears to hang.
In my case you boot at 50mhz, launch a program that does require ide disk activity once its loaded. Then switch to 58 60 or 62.5 mhz, the program will continue to work fine, but subsequent ide access will fail. The A1200 is still operating just minus IDE and mouse still moves etc. Just that ide has hung.
Kickstart 47.102 BTW.
That's the best way I can describe it.
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jurassicc wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 10:42 pm @alenppc
The CPU is still running, it only the IDE interface which appears to hang.
In my case you boot at 50mhz, launch a program that does require ide disk activity once its loaded. Then switch to 58 60 or 62.5 mhz, the program will continue to work fine, but subsequent ide access will fail. The A1200 is still operating just minus IDE and mouse still moves etc. Just that ide has hung.
Kickstart 47.102 BTW.
That's the best way I can describe it.
I suspect that in some circumstances an exception is thrown while Disable() has been set.. Thus you never get your ide interface back. I actually think this might be at least partly software related.

Maybe grab the older version of cpu speed and try some non-sensical speeds and see what happens. i.e 75 to 83mhz etc.
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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Hi !

Maybe I have found some kind of incompatibility to "ST M29F160FT-55N3" FlashRoms in the
"tf1260r1_2021_12_17_1742_4514ac9_alpha" Firmware.

When I am using these FlashRoms, my TF1260 is giving me a Yellow screen when powering on the A1200
and the card does not boot.
Otherwise when I am using "Fujitsu F 29F160BE-70PFTN" or "Fujitsu 29F800BA-70BFTN" ROMs,
the card is working like it should !

In comparison, my TF1230 card is working correct with the same "ST M29F160FT-55N3" FlashRoms on all my ReAmigas.
So I think this has something to do with the TF1260 FW.

I have build my TF1260 with 64MB of RAM (128MB coming soon) using a
"MC68LC060RC50 Rev.4" or "MC68060RC50 Rev.6" CPU and I have tried this on my
ReAmiga 1200 Boards Rev:: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 & 1.5 with AmigaOS3.2.1.

It seems to effect other KickROMs (3.1 & 3.X) too, but I have only tested this essentially with AOS3.2.1 !

I have tested this with a "Amiga DUO+" and a recapped Commodore 4.5A PSU.
I am getting 5.08V on the Floppy connector and 3.1V on the TF1260 card.
(for some reason I could not reach the 3.3V on the DC/DC converter)

Can anyone confirm this ?
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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drwhy wrote: Sun Feb 27, 2022 5:40 pm Hi !

Maybe I have found some kind of incompatibility to "ST M29F160FT-55N3" FlashRoms in the
"tf1260r1_2021_12_17_1742_4514ac9_alpha" Firmware.

When I am using these FlashRoms, my TF1260 is giving me a Yellow screen when powering on the A1200
and the card does not boot.
Otherwise when I am using "Fujitsu F 29F160BE-70PFTN" or "Fujitsu 29F800BA-70BFTN" ROMs,
the card is working like it should !

In comparison, my TF1230 card is working correct with the same "ST M29F160FT-55N3" FlashRoms on all my ReAmigas.
So I think this has something to do with the TF1260 FW.

I have build my TF1260 with 64MB of RAM (128MB coming soon) using a
"MC68LC060RC50 Rev.4" or "MC68060RC50 Rev.6" CPU and I have tried this on my
ReAmiga 1200 Boards Rev:: 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 & 1.5 with AmigaOS3.2.1.

It seems to effect other KickROMs (3.1 & 3.X) too, but I have only tested this essentially with AOS3.2.1 !

I have tested this with a "Amiga DUO+" and a recapped Commodore 4.5A PSU.
I am getting 5.08V on the Floppy connector and 3.1V on the TF1260 card.
(for some reason I could not reach the 3.3V on the DC/DC converter)

Can anyone confirm this ?
For me it is similar on one motherboard rev 2B but on the other it already works well!
I have a flash rom on ST integrated circuits but not F160 but F400 and they behave differently on two different ver 2B motherboards
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Re: TF1260 New Firmware Alpha Released!

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This might be a regression. But it sounds like the autovector bug i've tried to fix a few times.
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