Is there a switcher for CPU / TF board?

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Is there a switcher for CPU / TF board?

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Hi all,


I didn't have time to follow the community for a long time, but I refer speaking with someone about the idea of Switcher board that would allow you to boot Amiga either from stock 68k or TF board. Is it possible?

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I think @stephen_usher was doing such a board..
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Correct, thank you
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Mine was for the ST, but without the ROM logic should work equally well in the Amiga, assuming the space is correct.

I can send to you the full KiCad files so that you can design a simplified version for the Amiga.
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stephen_usher wrote: 20 Mar 2021 17:00 Mine was for the ST, but without the ROM logic should work equally well in the Amiga, assuming the space is correct.

I can send to you the full KiCad files so that you can design a simplified version for the Amiga.
This is perhaps getting a bit too far from the original source. @stephen_usher's board is based on my board, which is based on an Amiga board called "garlic". Might be best for @bartekmalysz to go all the way back to the original, which came from a1k.org. Looks like maybe a login is required to read the thread over there, but 8 Bit Dreams posted a link to the garlic schematics over here. In fact, that whole thread is probably worth a read.

I ended up having to switch a bit more to make the Atari happy, but apparently the simpler garlic setup is fine for Amigas.
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@derkom the O.P. has been in contact with me. He doesn't have soldering skills at all so would need someone else to build the board for his CD32.
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CDTV to be precise, and yes, I'm on the edge when it comes to space there:

CDTV with TF536 and SD2IDE it also uses Go0se's relocator for CDTV

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