REV 3 - REV 5 - The beginning (ST536)

Post by **exxos** » 20 Apr 2021 19:27

stephen_usher wrote: 20 Apr 2021 17:53 Re: Name. Maybe ask @terriblefire if it would be OK to put an 'S' prefix on the name, i.e. STF536?

Yeah I could do that..

Post by **terriblefire** » 20 Apr 2021 21:34

exxos wrote: 20 Apr 2021 19:27
stephen_usher wrote: 20 Apr 2021 17:53 Re: Name. Maybe ask @terriblefire if it would be OK to put an 'S' prefix on the name, i.e. STF536?
Yeah I could do that..

TBH... probably best just to drop the TF536 altogether lest some amiga person buys one thinking it will work in their machine.

Exxos530 is fine

Post by **exxos** » 26 Apr 2021 16:43

Muahahaha...

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Running from fast ram... (cache is hardwired off in this test)

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Oddly though, when BLTFIX.PRG is run the floppy starts to malfunction The screen gets corrupted and it crashes :shrug:

EDIT:
This current STE is 512K machine.. so maybe it needs more RAM...

EDIT2:
OK so when caches are on the floppy malfunctions then it seems :roll: This machine does not have any other fixes done either yet so it could be anything..

DominoTree · Post by **DominoTree** » 26 Apr 2021 19:23

exxos wrote: 26 Apr 2021 16:43 Running from fast ram... (cache is hardwired off in this test)

Those new benchmarks must be so good because of the blue heatsink :D

Post by **exxos** » 26 Apr 2021 22:10

It looks like there is a bit of noise on one of the data lines as it will only boot with the scope probe on it now :roll:

This setup seems be suffering similar problems as when MAPROM was run, it would start corrupting the floppy contents.

I have been trying to get EMUTOS working, but that seems to suffer a similar problem where the floppy stops working when it has loaded. This board will otherwise run perfectly fine on my H4 under TOS206 / EMUTOS.

EDIT:

Looks like with TOS206 it doesn't like the caches on for floppy.. and yet on a H4 I don't have this problem :shrug:

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 26 Apr 2021 22:14

Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?

Post by **exxos** » 26 Apr 2021 22:22

Steve wrote: 26 Apr 2021 22:14 Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?

Only got black ones in my store, do people really want blue ones ?! :roll:

Post by **exxos** » 26 Apr 2021 22:28

Now running the 16MB alt-ram patch of EMUTOS that BW did for me.. (from floppy) then running the patched MAPROM, then GB6..

Reference a stock STE (blitter on)

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Reference a stock machine (blitter off)

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Steve · Post by **Steve** » 26 Apr 2021 22:39

exxos wrote: 26 Apr 2021 22:22
Steve wrote: 26 Apr 2021 22:14 Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?
Only got black ones in my store, do people really want blue ones ?! :roll:

Only because of the extra performance it provides, source: your screenshots

Post by **PhilC** » 27 Apr 2021 17:44

Yeah, blue or purple please :lol:

P.s. compatible machine for benchmark maybe? Tos1.04 on one if them

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