AddMem made the extra RAM appear and it tested out fine! I needed to find a Kick 1.3 compatible version first and found it as part of 'yKick' on Aminet. Its unfortunately not reset-resident and "CPU FASTROM" does not work - so everything workbench is dog slow :-) IDE is working, too. I'm using a ca....

Cool, I'll try that tonight! Would it be possible to support ZII space (accepting only 8mb Fast RAM) via a separate firmware? Or - way cooler - via a jumper (or keyboard press during coldboot) at runtime? Thank you! I also want to add that the board build was a very pleasant experience. Having no Mi...

Would AddMem as a crutch help (I don't have a 3.1 ROM handy)? If so, what are the address ranges that TF536 decodes?

I received my board this week and built it last night. It booted on first run (I love the flashing colors on reset 😃) but no fastmem is reported (no Autoconfig board is being found). SysInfo is reporting 7mhz, but I think this is the down-clocking on chipmem access in action(?). This is a Kick1.3 A5...

I'm up for two boards if available.

Thanks a bunch!

Yeah, I know :-) I'd like to build one, though... After the nice experience with the TF530 I quite enjoy soldering. Do you have any tips on a modern DIY +1MB expansion solution (ideally with an RTC on it... I enjoy knowing when I last touched a file - "oh man, I did this 15 years ago?!?!?"). Can the...

Ok, that confirms my experience. It works well with my Kick 1.3 A500. IDE works as such, but autoboot doesn't - I need a boot disk that mounts DH0: and then forwards booting into the 'Harddisk' (SDCARD adapter). This is a Rev 8.1A board, internally upgraded to 1mb, plus an additional 500kb ram expan...

Kickstart 1.3 is a no go!

Does this also apply to TF530? Or is TF530 working because of using ZorroII address space?

This may be an old hat for the more experienced, but was a good lesson for me. I am using a ChipQuick "Tacky No Clean Flux" for most stuff. Its ok for soldering but leaves a sticky goo behind. The good thing is, it is non-conductive. But that can also be a bad thing... What happened to me is that af...

"SetCpu" from Aminet did the trick for me. It also has a nice FASTROM option to map Kickstart into RAM.

SetCPU CACHE BURST FASTROM
Brings SysInfo on a 50Mhz TF530 on par (if not above) a Blizzard1230-IV.

The IDE speed is also phenomenal... up to 4.8mb/s via ide.device