Raven. A homemade Atari-like computer

[LarryL]

Though if I ditch one of the CF sockets, or make the board larger, I suppose I could use whatever.

sounds great!
maybe put one of the CF sockets on the back of the PCB?

[agranlund]

maybe put one of the CF sockets on the back of the PCB?

That's not a bad idea! or some of the IC's maybe.

Sort of starting to work in TOS now.
Some features are still missing, and error detection + handling needs improvement for sure.

But it's really cool being able to read my old Atari disk



I feel I need to make Castaway able to pass-through floppy access to the host hardware now.
Then I could play Defender of the Crown, using my old original disks, on Raven

[Atarian Computing]

maybe put one of the CF sockets on the back of the PCB?

That's not a bad idea! or some of the IC's maybe.

Sort of starting to work in TOS now.
Some features are still missing, and error detection + handling needs improvement for sure.

But it's really cool being able to read my old Atari disk



I feel I need to make Castaway able to pass-through floppy access to the host hardware now.
Then I could play Defender of the Crown, using my old original disks, on Raven

Purely amazing! Can't wait!!!

[kodak80]

CD drives confirmed working, Floppy disks a WIP, I am going to have to change from my light filled glass case to something that can hold these drives.

This is looking great.

[LarryL]

CD drives confirmed working, Floppy disks a WIP, I am going to have to change from my light filled glass case to something that can hold these drives.

This is looking great.

Indeed!
I can recommend the Fractal Design Pop Mini RGB
There you can keep RGB and glass and have as well two 5.25 drive bays at the bottom. A magnetic panel hides these bays

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[agranlund]

I think the floppy driver can be considered beta so I made it part of the release packages.
Can be found in "software/raven/drivers/fdc"

It's currently operating in read-only mode.

(I want to do more write testing before having it enabled. And also implement the formatting stuff)

[agranlund]

Added blitter support for WD90C33

Performance is quite similar to the '31 variant.
It does have a couple of extra features such as hardware accelerated lines and triangles so that could be fun adding to the driver some day.

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[Mikerochip]

It's almost time we had a chart!!

You've added so many different cards now :O
(Impressive!!)

[agranlund]

It's almost time we had a chart!!

You've added so many different cards now :O
(Impressive!!)

Thanks, yes some documentation about what cards do what feels appropriate

[Mikerochip]

Well, it was easy enough with Nova.

Either get an ET4000, and 24bit/16/15/8/4 bit DAC, or, give a kidney for a Mach32. Or two kidneys, for a Mach64

I wonder, is there a possibility of back porting this to work with a standard Mega STE/TT enabled Nova machine?
I feel like a lot of ST users might benefit from, even the old crappy ISA cards.

if I could get a GD-5420 for a few quid, and it'd give me 256 colours at 800x600, I'd get one for my mATX ST :O

Even my Albert 1024x768, 4bit is a nice step up from standard resolutions, for desktop work.
(It's ... not a fast card though )