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Hi everyone. Here's a short little video of me measuring the current consumption of a noisy Falcon fan and attenuating its power supply a little to take the edge of things. This may be an alternative to simply cutting the wire -- which I know many do -- or seeking an expensive replacement. I obvious...

It's a nice project and one that's a good complement to the MiniATX board. Together they cover most bases. I had no idea any of this existed - thanks for summarising. Question - Will we always need to have an existing STF case to put the motherboard in? Any plans to actually have this available as a...

wongck wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 5:42 am Great video as usual.
I checked Exxos site but there's no tos2,06 / Emutos ready rom chips.

Ah yes, quite right. I didn't mean to imply that combination. He offers 1.62/2.06 until current stocks are exhausted (I believe).

Thanks for all the good wishes, chaps.

BW

nice and informative, I have one of these boards too, but haven't had the courage to try emutos on it yet, but now i'll have a go :) Cheers! If you can make the old Hitachi chips work, it makes things very flexible. They're not as fast as the modern Atmel ones, so won't work if you've coupled them ...

Afternoon all, I've been a bit tied up with a new addition to the family of late, but what better thing to keep a baby entertained than soldering up an STE DualTOS board and showing her how to compile and burn EPROMs for it? Well, nothing, I say. Here's the result: thumb copy.jpeg https://youtu.be/j...

...had a quick look at the repo and those changes are definitely there. So 'make disk1' should be enough for most of the samples. I *maybe* didn't finish converting all the demos but the examples were caught up. Very perplexing! I've just tried again from scratch and got it to work this time. Here'...

I'm hitting a similar problem (I thought I'd try it out )
All from ste/mapmod.s

Brand new clone, so not stale objects.

I haven't found any of the tutorial, examples or demos to compile just yet.

Cheers,

BW

For CPX, thats part of the interface. The CPX_Save function (provided by Xcontrol) saves whatever you pass to it to the start of the data section. Remember that CPX aren't even separate programs, but ar managed by xcontrol. Ah yeah. I thought it might be. Grr. https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/ne...

IIRC a lot of CPXs do this and it's quite annoying.

Anyone know how to load the Colour CPX without setting the previously saved values?

BW

Hi Thorsten, Does a simple m68k-atari-mint-gcc hello.c work? Yikes! No, it doesn't! I've been using LibCMini a lot recently and must have broken my mintlib install somehow. My programs under developement and EmuTOS (none of which use mintlib, crucially) were working so I'd missed that. Thanks for th...

Hi all, I'm trying to build uip-tools from source (latest commit, 3c5b538) and I keep hitting the following error: m68k-atari-mint-gcc -o /usr/src/uip-tool.build/netusbee/uip-tools/src/romtest.tos -m68000 -O3 -s /usr/src/uip-tool.build/netusbee/uip-tools/src/romport-speed.o /usr/lib/gcc/m68k-atari-m...

Hi Mikro,

I know this is aimed at the 060, but I gave this a try with my 50MHz 030 board and am happy to report it works well, albeit obviously slowly.

Was able to commune with the dog in Monkey Island successfully.

Many thanks for this customised port.

BW

SteveBagley wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 10:03 am That’s the problem with ChatGPT and similar tools it appears to be correct until you look carefully… on top of what others have mentioned…

There’s no call to appl_init() for instance…

I reckon it's already doing better than me!

BW

One step back but two *huge* steps forward with PiStormST today: it's running on more than just my machine!

https://twitter.com/thetechnoshed/statu ... 7744643075

More information over at the PiStorm Discord server.

BW

shoggoth wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 3:58 pm Awesome progress! It's close now.

It kind of is and isn't simulataneously!

We've got a couple more people working on it now, though, so fingers crossed.

BW

I've had some success with PiStorm since the last update here, but getting others working has been a problem -- it looks like I have tuned for only a single board. So I decided to build a new PiStorm & give it a different RasPi. thumb800.jpeg https://youtu.be/HbDN8R8AfHk It doesn't work, but I t...

Hi Orion_, I've been watching this project for a while but only today decided to give this a try. First on my STE then on my Falcon. Writing is bit unreliable on the Falcon, but as a way to get software onto the system in an easily accessible Windows/Mac compatible media format, it's excellent. With...

DoG wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:28 pm Supply voltage is 4.75-5.25V on the 74LS244 (read section 6.3 in the datasheet) if that is what you are asking?

That's minimum recommended rather than the actual minimum feasible.

YMMV, of course.

BW

Does a 74ls244 need 5v OR can it run on the 3.3v from the Nodemcu? Datasheet actually says its a lower voltage than 5v, but I figured our MBs run at 5v so 5v it is?? Guess same question with the LEDs, I guess the value of the resistor and the voltage going to the led is going to determine how brigh...

Yes, fantastic stuff!

JeanMars wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 12:11 pm Hi badwolf,
Thanks for the update, there should à b un in vision when it comes to low/unsual resolutions. Could you please post vision.log ?

Hi there. Unfortunately as it's working now, I don't see the issue any more -- if I can precipitate it again, I will do.

BW

So far an '030 has proved beyond our enthusiastic FPGA designers, I believe, so yes, taking it out of the equation would reduce the complexity a lot. If you didn't need it to be cycle exact, I'd say it's eminently doable. It'd be like a hardware ARAnyM. :-) SuperVidel has shown that's possible, but ...

dml wrote: ↑Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:04 am This looks fun. There's something I'd like to try if I had one of these attached to my MegaST...

Thanks.

It's not really viable yet (because of that bloody ST-RAM read performance issue!), but it's a fun demo.


...shall I do a 1920x1080 one..?

BW

I wouldn't call it a complete solution, but how's it look now? :-) Nice! What did you do? At some point, I was even about to put the blame on VISION itself about bad icon rendering ;-) Cheers, Jean Thanks Jean, but it's actually a different project -- that's a proper 16-bit screen and Vision is qui...

Probably I'm getting something totally wrong... but I would like to understand this, anyway. You probably missed Badwolf's switch from the 3x2x2 (8 bit - 256 colour) hardware originally discussed to the PiStorm-based 16-bit HDMI graphics halfway down the page? That last screenshot is indeed 16-bit ...