Raven. A homemade Atari-like computer

[agranlund]

I've never used MagiC, do you think it'll be worthwhile me trying to get it loaded? I have no idea what the benefits would be. It looks to be an alternative to Tos?

Yep, it's a TOS alternative.
Or perhaps better to describe it as a MiNT alternative since it's pre-emptive multitasking.
But in all honesty, nope I don't think it would be worthwhile :)
MiNT is probably better and still in active development.

It's mostly a case of seeing if I could, and because my 68030 ST ran MagiC most of the time.
Not sure how much effort I will be putting into completing MagiC's Raven specific support but at the very least it needs to get support for input :)

It does require the byteswap adapter. Then I made a TOS partition with HDDriver installed in the bootsector.
That could be fixed but would take a lot of work that I don't think is worth it. You'd probably want to rip the IDE code from EmuTOS and transplant it into the MagiC kernel, or perhaps make standalone driver from said EmuTOS code.

[PhilC]

Thanks, I did do some googling and wasn't sure about it. I'll keep my efforts focused on Emutos instead :D

[Oldskool]

Magic is fast. Probably beats TOS. On something like a 16 mhz 68k preferably with a graphics card it’s really impressive.

[agranlund]

Magic is fast. Probably beats TOS. On something like a 16 mhz 68k preferably with a graphics card it’s really impressive.

I totally agree! It’s really impressive stuff and I preferred it over Mint on the ST.

[dml]

Another quick question - has the ROM programmer board been tried with 74LS family ICs? Or does it really need to be 74HC? The logic levels are a bit different but sometimes they can be swapped.

[PhilC]

Another quick question - has the ROM programmer board been tried with 74LS family ICs? Or does it really need to be 74HC? The logic levels are a bit different but sometimes they can be swapped.

I used 74LS273 chips without issue using the PLCC roms

[dml]

I used 74LS273 chips without issue using the PLCC roms

Thanks again! I'll take another pass through my logic array... I sorta rejected any tray that wasn't HC on the first round.


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...well, I found one. Just one :)

Maybe I can multiplex it or something. Or move it between sockets very very fast :)

[agranlund]

Or move it between sockets very very fast :)

100% yes!

[PhilC]

Or move it between sockets very very fast :)

100% yes!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[agranlund]

Needs a Thing desktop installation and then we're almost home :)

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