Raven060 (kodak80 build)

[agranlund]

Wohoo! Great job indeed!

[kodak80]

Whilst I am waiting for the 44 pin IDC connector to arrive, I did some initial testing with some IDE options I have here. I have to advise, none of the options I currently own have shown any sign of a disk appearing or the board simply does not boot to the desktop (black screen - no video output). I feel like I am having similar issues to @luciodra in this regard. My issues may relate to not having a soldered in connector on the Raven060 board though.

44 pin CF adapter (pin version) does not work (borrowed from my Falcon) - also tried with other CF cards FAT16 formatted partitions
real IDE 80gb laptop drive does not work (with 256mb FAT16 partition)

I have ordered an SD IDE 44 pin adapter to see if this works.

I am wondering if the 68150FN33 is part of the issue, so I have just ordered some FN40 chips and will play the waiting game on these arriving (might be a December project now). I also wonder if the ISKI chip speed is a consideration as mine is an ATF22V10-15PU (so not 10ns)? Again, I will order some 10ns chips to see if this changes anything.

At this stage I am stalled. I will continue once the various chips and connectors arrive.

I can reload the diagnostic ROM and capture some output if this helps but might wait until I have the ordered bits here.

[luciodra]

I have ordered an SD IDE 44 pin adapter to see if this works.

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After many tests, these adapters work with various SD and CF cards with a 250Mb partition. The first two SD-Ide adapters look identical but were purchased at different times from different retailers. One works with flat and angled cable while the other works with angled and that's it (don't ask me why). The CF-Ide adapter is the only one that works, while I have others that don't. The 44 pin hard disk doesn't show up for me.

I am also very interested in testing with the 68150. I have purchased two more (40 and 33) and am waiting...

[kodak80]

44 pin IDC socket arrived today. Now soldered in and there is good news... my CF adapter from my Falcon is now working with the header soldered in. :D

Raven060 kodak80 CF adapter 202411226.jpg

This is the drives from my Falcon CF card

Raven060 kodak80 Cf from Falcon booting 202411226.jpg

I then formatted an 8GB CF card with a 255mb Fat partition and copied in the initial Raven boot files.

After setting the AUTO folder order, then setting the Raven BIOS Nova settings, I now have a colour ET4000/W32I video output. :D

Raven060 kodak80 W32I Nova colour 202411226.jpg

I have also soldered in a 2nd ISA slot and inserted the PicoGUS I soldered. Will need to work out how this works and how to test it.

Raven060 kodak80 PicoGUS 202411226.jpg

And here is the initial GemBench results compared to the STE test.

Raven060 kodak80 GemBench Et4000W32I 202411226.jpg

Are these the fastest results for the Raven060???

:cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

[kodak80]

The bad news was that the 3rd SIMM RAM is not working in the Raven. I tried soldering the chips onto an alternate SIMM PCB but still no luck so may have an expensive dead RAM chip. :(

I do have 2 working 16mb SIMMs. :)

[agranlund]

After setting the AUTO folder order, then setting the Raven BIOS Nova settings, I now have a colour ET4000/W32I video output. :D

So incredibly cool to see another one up and running!


ISA bios extensions are not yet built into ravens bios so for now you need to have ISA_BIOS.PRG in the auto folder.
I was going to incorporate it in rvbios so it's not in the release package, but then I never got around to it and forgot :)
There's a pre-built binary on github though: https://github.com/agranlund/raven/tree ... a/isa_bios

With that running you should be able to use "drivers/picogus/pgusinit.prg".

And the mxPlay plugins from here:
https://github.com/agranlund/atarisound/tree/main/bin

Sorry that everything is quite disorganised at the moment :)

ISA_BIOS desperately needs documentation but you shouldn't need to do any manual configuration with just a picogus in the machine anyway.
(It's not a pnp card, and you don't have any pnp card inserted that it could potentially collide with)
Going forward I'd like to add an ISA configuration section in the normal bios setup screen -- a UI is always nicer than editing textfiles.

[kodak80]

@kodak80 @luciodra follow @agranlund's advice: the easiest path is to download both archives (ST/STE and TT/Falcon/clones) and replace the "sysroot" and "bin" folder with the one from ST/STE. That should get you going.

Thanks. This runs better for me now. I copied the whole sys-root folder which also contains the bin folder.

[kodak80]

@mikro Looks like MXPLAY is also reliant on the FPU so errors with "68881 is missing" under FreeMint even with the ST/STE files. :(

[viking272]

@mikro Looks like MXPLAY is also reliant on the FPU so errors with "68881 is missing" under FreeMint even with the ST/STE files. :(

I'm glad someone is testing a 68060 LC, thank you kodak80 for the pain you will endure but hope it can work well

[mikro]

@mikro Looks like MXPLAY is also reliant on the FPU so errors with "68881 is missing" under FreeMint even with the ST/STE files. :(

Yeah, mxPlay waits for some freshup. However it's not so easy, as some CPU-intensive plugins (e.g. the one based on mpg123) may not be very happy with softfloats. But I have added it to my TODO: https://github.com/mikrosk/mxplay/issues/41.