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terriblefire wrote: 07 Sep 2021 09:16 The daft bit is we know exactly who this is just by looking at the card :)

SD3057… Why, it’s Crazy Bob, from Crazy Bob’s Workshop, of course! :lol:

We sent him this...



He bought it on the 21st Aug.. Clearly only bought it so he could flip it.

terriblefire wrote: 07 Sep 2021 19:44 He bought it on the 21st Aug.. Clearly only bought it so he could flip it.

I’m guessing he’d be making at least £100 profit there. The cheeky so and so .

He’s had the brass neck to go asking if he can have another one…. Nope. Not ever

terriblefire wrote: 09 Sep 2021 14:57 He’s had the brass neck to go asking if he can have another one…. Nope. Not ever

:lol:

If he really needs to have one, he could have just not sold the first one!

Thought i'd benchmark the TF1260 against the Blizzard 1260 using NovaCoder's AmiQuake.

320x200 NTSC, 2x hud showing, timedemo demo1, nosound.

Blizzard 1260 80Mhz = 16.3fps
TF1260 79.16Mhz = 15.7fps

It's pretty close! I'm wondering if the Blizzard's faster chip mem speed is the difference here given the TF has significantly faster fast ram access. Maybe quake needs chip speed just as much if not more than fast ram speed to get the high fps? Will be very keen to try again if there's another fw revision :)

in the "bang-for-the-buck" shoot out it's a clear win for the TF1260, that's for sure :)

trixster wrote: 13 Sep 2021 16:58 Thought i'd benchmark the TF1260 against the Blizzard 1260 using NovaCoder's AmiQuake.

320x200 NTSC, 2x hud showing, timedemo demo1, nosound.

Blizzard 1260 80Mhz = 16.3fps
TF1260 79.16Mhz = 15.7fps

It's pretty close! I'm wondering if the Blizzard's faster chip mem speed is the difference here given the TF has significantly faster fast ram access. Maybe quake needs chip speed just as much if not more than fast ram speed to get the high fps? Will be very keen to try again if there's another fw revision :)

in the "bang-for-the-buck" shoot out it's a clear win for the TF1260, that's for sure :)

Today I actually tried the softfloat quake on LC060 at 80 Mhz... it actually does 3-4 fps, very impressive for what it is

I had a go at using the TF1260's IDE header this evening - 6.3MB/s, that's pretty fast!

One thing to remember if you're going to do this - make sure anything you're already using Loadmodule for on your primary CF card (ie the one that's going to move onto the TF1260) is copied across to the CF card on the internal IDE header that's being used to load ehide.device. It seems that Loadmodule can only be invoked once during boot, so anything that you want made resident by a Loadmodule command in the startup-sequence of the primary CF will be ignored. You'll have to copy across libraries and modules to the boot CF card and add them to the boot CF's startup-sequence Loadmodule command.

As an example, my Loadmodule now looks something like this:

Loadmodule >NIL: DEVS:ehide.device DEVS:Modules/icon.library LIBS:workbench.library LIBS:intuition.library LIBS:mathieeesingbas.library LIBS:mathffp.library

anything after this (ie setpatch, assigns, the setting up of env:) doesn't get run because the machine immediately reboots following Loadmodule. Startup-seqeuence then begins on ehide.device (which is now your primary boot cf card) but a loadmodule command here is ignored because loadmodule has already been invoked (and libraries / modules made resident) previously.

Of course, I’m sure you could use If and Else to get around this, but I’ve never been clever enough to work them out! :D

The last thing to do is make the primary CF card have a higher boot priority than the boot CF card. This is done using something like HDToolbox. The boot CF will have priority 0 by default, so set the primary cf as 1. Floppy is 5, so that will boot in preference to any HD.

Hi.
I used OS3.2 and kick3.2 and build my own customized kickrom adding ehide.device to it.
In combination with icomp PSU very stable working and directly bootable.
My CPU is a rev5 060.
I've upgraded my TF1260 with a Raspberry Pi to the published Beta FW.
Using the CF2IDE+ by Archi-Tech with a modded LED PCB for showing 1260 IDE activity.
Awesome. Very happy.
Thanks to the developer and builder.


regards
Peter

Like you Peter I've decided to get ehide.device running from rom, so I made some custom 3.1 roms with this in it as well as a few upgraded modules (peterk's icon.library, HSMathsLIBS, the intuition.library from 3.1.4. Chris Morley's superb eprom emulators makes this a pretty painless task!

No need for a boot cf card on the internal IDE anymore :D