What to do with my spare Raspberry Pi's

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Re: What to do with my spare Raspberry Pi's

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PhilC wrote: 03 Jan 2026 10:24
rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 10:16

Managed to find one thanks :)

Is there a specific SD card image you're going to use for the Pi?
I've not got as far as that yet but will happily share it when I do. I've also got a flamethrower coming too for the Amiga.
OK, cool. If I get there first I will share too.

Did you mean Framethrower? I see it fits in the Denise socket like the RGB2HDMI but feeds the Pi with an FFC cable. A single HDMI output is nice but I see it doesn't have sound over HDMI ATM. Not an issue for me as I use external speakers, but if you want to use sound over HDMI is is a blocker. I may wait for it to be a bit more mature.

I don't think there is a Framethrower for the A1200 yet.
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Re: What to do with my spare Raspberry Pi's

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PhilC wrote: 02 Jan 2026 17:23 Well I've got most of the Raspberry Pi's sorted or sold.

I've got a PiStorm for an Amiga and an ST to build...
I'd be very interested to see if you can get this running on the ST Phil. IIRC @stephen_usher had a go, but it didnt quite work out.

I think someone needs to properly crack this one for the Atari. :)
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I'd be very interested in this too...but I think @Steve might have one working in an ST?

I should probably watch the vids by @Badwolf on his channel too....
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I've had it working in my H5 rather reliably... I tried to get it working in my STe but I couldn't get it to work. You can try it out but you must remember it's nothing like the Amiga pistorm experience (which is literally copy/paste some files onto an SD card and BAM it works) This is the jarring part which puts most people off. You need Linux knowledge, how to SSH, edit files with vim/nano, download Githubs, edit config files... Not that I want to put people off, just saying what is involved. After getting the CPU emulator working properly, you can then go configure the Pi to automatically boot the CPU emulator (rather than SSH'ing in to start your Atari)

A big factor in the difference between Amiga vs Atari Pistorm is that the Amiga has a bare-metal CPU emulator called Emu68 which has a full-time lead developer, he's got it running so smooth and powerful many people prefer it to shelling out on a 68060. In Atari land we are using Musashi which isn't bare-metal (runs in a Linux OS, hence why more configuration is required) We have spoken to Michael the Emu68 developer about adding Atari support (which incidentally would also enable 68K Mac support) he has said that this could happen one day, but we haven't seen anything yet in that direction.

The ST Pistorm efforts have stalled unfortunately because there isn't anyone in the Atari community who can help @dad664npc :(
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Steve wrote: 03 Jan 2026 15:58 In Atari land we are using Musashi which isn't bare-metal (runs in a Linux OS, hence why more configuration is required)
It was suggested to me that Musashi was not the best route for PiStrom on my Amigas, and I can't imagine it would be any better on the ST PiStorm.

Bare metal is definitely the way to go but in all honesty if there is no bare metal option for the ST it might be a bit of a bust.
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If reminds me, I had the pistorm and Atari adapter board somewhere a while back. I just don't have the time for it, so I'd be looking to sell the stuff. Stuff is basically all new and don't think was even used.

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exxos wrote: 03 Jan 2026 17:11 If reminds me, I had the pistorm and Atari adapter board somewhere a while back. I just don't have the time for it, so I'd be looking to sell the stuff. Stuff is basically all new and don't think was even used.

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If you're talking about the blue adapter boards I'd be interested in one to experiment with. Can you let me know the cost please, thanks.

It's frankly about time I did some more ST stuff :)
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 17:25 If you're talking about the blue adapter boards I'd be interested in one to experiment with. Can you let me know the cost please, thanks.
Its the pi and adapter viewtopic.php?p=114781#p114781
Don't remember anything about it all anymore or what it all cost..
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exxos wrote: 03 Jan 2026 17:36
rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 17:25 If you're talking about the blue adapter boards I'd be interested in one to experiment with. Can you let me know the cost please, thanks.
Its the pi and adapter viewtopic.php?p=114781#p114781
Don't remember anything about it all anymore or what it all cost..
Well I'm interested so let me know how much you want :)
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Jan 2026 19:03 Well I'm interested so let me know how much you want :)
Ok, I'll have to see when I get home.. But the PI and board + heatsinks likely ended up near 100.. But I'd accept 50 as its you ;)

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