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Here are a couple of minor bugs that I found so far on the 536.

1) Easy to reproduce, minor:
When accessing the Early Startup, press any key. Expected behaviour would be screenmode change (60>50 Hz and vice versa). What happens instead is that the machine reboots. This did not occur on the rev1.

2) Easy to reproduce, very minor:
FA18Interceptor WHDLoad only works with "NOVBRMOVE" tootype. This occurs on the rev1 TF536 also. It does not occur on the TF330. (I am using the same CF card setup for both, available upon request).

3) Easy to reproduce, minor:
FerrariFormulaOne WHDLoad game crashes on the 536. This occurs on both the rev1 and the rev2b 536. (NOVBRMOVE doesn't help in this case). This does not occur on the TF330.

This is pointing at a clock phase issue.

I will try and replicate those here on my 500's and 500+

terriblefire wrote: 17 Jul 2020 20:48 This is pointing at a clock phase issue.

I'm also wondering if this is an issue that may stop certain STs from booting

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 Here are a couple of minor bugs that I found so far on the 536.

1) Easy to reproduce, minor:
When accessing the Early Startup, press any key. Expected behaviour would be screenmode change (60>50 Hz and vice versa). What happens instead is that the machine reboots. This did not occur on the rev1.

Works for me on this rev 6A A500! No problem at all!

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 2) Easy to reproduce, very minor:
FA18Interceptor WHDLoad only works with "NOVBRMOVE" tootype. This occurs on the rev1 TF536 also. It does not occur on the TF330. (I am using the same CF card setup for both, available upon request).

Again works fine for me! I didn't check or change the tooltype.

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 3) Easy to reproduce, minor:
FerrariFormulaOne WHDLoad game crashes on the 536. This occurs on both the rev1 and the rev2b 536. (NOVBRMOVE doesn't help in this case). This does not occur on the TF330.

Don't have this one on my CF card! Will dig it out later and somehow get it on there.

I had been trying to use kicstart 3.1.4.
Ide speeds are round 300kb/s
So I can confirm what @8 Bit Dreams reported before.

arkadiusz.makarenko wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:17 I had bern trying to use kicstart 3.1.4.
Ide speeds are round 300kb/s
So I can confirm what @8 Bit Dreams reported before.

I have 3Mb/s with 3.1.4

PaulJ_2.0 wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:21

arkadiusz.makarenko wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:17 I had bern trying to use kicstart 3.1.4.
Ide speeds are round 300kb/s
So I can confirm what @8 Bit Dreams reported before.

I have 3Mb/s with 3.1.4

I have 800KB/s with 3.1.4 (no MMU)

GadgetUK164 wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:23

PaulJ_2.0 wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:21

I have 3Mb/s with 3.1.4

I have 800KB/s with 3.1.4 (no MMU)

Ok on CF I have 700kb, but all SDs so far are in 300kb range. Maybe 3.1.4 doesn't like my SD2IDE, or some of my SDs.

GadgetUK164 wrote: 17 Jul 2020 21:05

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 Here are a couple of minor bugs that I found so far on the 536.

1) Easy to reproduce, minor:
When accessing the Early Startup, press any key. Expected behaviour would be screenmode change (60>50 Hz and vice versa). What happens instead is that the machine reboots. This did not occur on the rev1.

Works for me on this rev 6A A500! No problem at all!

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 2) Easy to reproduce, very minor:
FA18Interceptor WHDLoad only works with "NOVBRMOVE" tootype. This occurs on the rev1 TF536 also. It does not occur on the TF330. (I am using the same CF card setup for both, available upon request).

Again works fine for me! I didn't check or change the tooltype.

alenppc wrote: 17 Jul 2020 17:33 3) Easy to reproduce, minor:
FerrariFormulaOne WHDLoad game crashes on the 536. This occurs on both the rev1 and the rev2b 536. (NOVBRMOVE doesn't help in this case). This does not occur on the TF330.

Don't have this one on my CF card! Will dig it out later and somehow get it on there.

That’s odd. I can reproduce the ESM issue on every board. But this could be my Amiga only. The whdload issues may depend on your installation. Do you have the mmu libs? I can give you a link to download my cf image and try.