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OK, so the 48 pin sockets are here, so I'll get those installed later. I have another 40 pin socket to do as well, but that's the ROM and as I want to continue to use DiagROM I will leave that socket to the very end when I no longer want to use the Boo Bip ROM emulators as I don't want to mess up the new socket with round pins.

I think the plan is going to be to upgrade to 1MB on board if the replacement Agnus makes no difference and just stick an RTC in there.

It's less relevant now I have 8MB on the upgrade board.
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stephen_usher wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:45 pm Unless you change the jumper on the motherboard the trapdoor RAM won't be Chip RAM but "Slow" RAM.
Indeed but as I said, if changing Agnus doesn't fix the trapdoor RAM issue, I'll add another 0.5MB onto the mainboard, it's less of an issue now I have 8MB chip RAM plus the existing .5MB of chip RAM.

I'm not going to waste any more time on the trapdoor and I'll just use it for an RTC if that's what's needed.

Of course I also need to set up a boot drive too now I have IDE that doesn't need drivers :)
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:58 pm it's less of an issue now I have 8MB Fast RAM plus the existing .5MB of chip RAM.
There will be one or two demo's that require 1MB of Chip RAM but they will be very few. Same goes for WHDload games.
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alexh wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 4:33 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:58 pm it's less of an issue now I have 8MB Fast RAM plus the existing .5MB of chip RAM.
There will be one or two demo's that require 1MB of Chip RAM but they will be very few. Same goes for WHDload games.
Cool, thanks for the info.
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Annoyingly, it looks like Fat Agnus will be arriving tomorrow, I was hoping to have my answers today :(
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Waiting for stuff to arrive is really annoying.
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stephen_usher wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:47 am Waiting for stuff to arrive is really annoying.
It really is.
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rubber_jonnie wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:27 am
stephen_usher wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:47 am Waiting for stuff to arrive is really annoying.
It really is.
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Postman has just been, and I'm stuck in a work call...

Probably nothing for me but you never know.

Just ordered a CF to laptop IDE adapter so once I get things figured out I can get something connected to the new IDE adapter :)
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Rubbish, nothing for me...
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Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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