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I absolutely hate the CDTV… why? Because when you press an accelerator into one you can bend long pins in the PCB and cause shorts.

I have the PiStorm up and running, 136 MB Fast RAM and faster than the A4000/25 shown in Sysinfo!
Unfortunately I have no access to my hard drive or SCSI CD-ROM drive now, but that seems to be caused by scsi.device not being loaded.
Anyway, I'm now booting off a hdf image on the PiStorm sd card. The TF will be used somehow nonetheless; I'm considering buying a plain A500 as well.

terriblefire wrote: 30 Oct 2021 16:28 I absolutely hate the CDTV… why? Because when you press an accelerator into one you can bend long pins in the PCB and cause shorts.

Hi Stephen,

You probably don't recall this, but... anyway, a couple of years ago I tried making a TF534 work on a CDTV but had no luck with this - so in the end I installed a Pistorm instead. Have had the 534 lying on the shelf since then...

However, I finally managed to purchase a std. A500, too. My appx. 30 years old Amitech trapdoor expansion which has never been used (novice purchase for the CDTV back then, but of course it doesn't fit there, doh!), turned out to be functional and the TF534 runs flawlessly on this Amiga (with the KS 3.1 I luckily had on my shelf as well)!

So I'm very happy now... next step will be to make the chip ram mod for the trapdoor expansion, as well as installing a CF card reader or 2,5" hard drive. Anyway, it was great to finally have the 534 verified and up and running. c",)

Ah excellent news

Hi again Stephen,

I can confirm now that the TF534 works fine with KS 3.2.2 (47.111) and OS 3.2 from Hyperion, with my current setup on an A500 rev6.

My disk speed fell drastically to about 400K/sec initially; then I read a bit about eventual issues and decided to reinstall MMULib trying a minor adjustment, namely the FastROM which apparently didn't work properly the first time... now it's remarkably faster and runs at around 3,7 MB/sec, both according to SysInfo.
Thought these info could be useful to you... thanks for your kind help previously and for this great product!

It seems the GitHub link is down. Are the sources published elsewhere? Or was there a reason it was taken down?
I really appreciate you releasing this, and I'd like to look into it.

they were nuked a few years back but might be up under my other github account "hologenics" as the hg530

Awesome, found them here indeed: https://github.com/hologenics/hg534
Any chance the tf536 will be published under similar terms? I'd like to create a slightly smaller PCB version of the tf536.

maximevince wrote: 03 Apr 2024 10:15 Awesome, found them here indeed: https://github.com/hologenics/hg534
Any chance the tf536 will be published under similar terms? I'd like to create a slightly smaller PCB version of the tf536.

Unfortunately not while i draw breath. Amiga community has shown that there are those who will take my work and put their own name on it.

Things are setup to be opened when i am no longer around.

Understood.
Would you be willing to set up a collaboration with me to make a smaller version of the tf536?
Without having to release them as open source, that is.