And I was trying to avoid that discussion as well
But it is a similar problem. Is there any use in spending time on that series making it work with flashy when there is the DSTB1 in active development for people which is open source. The accelerator has to be told to run faster on alt-ram access. In previous boosters it is just not going to be possible. My current 16MHz booster just does not have enough IO for it. I was trying to keep it as a low-cost solution and struggled to mash it all into a small PLD. It actually at some multiple "hacks" on it as I was like 5 IO's short.
If enough time and money was thrown at things then sure they could all be made to work together. But I do not really want to start doing even more projects as I cannot even finish the ones I already started. My store soaks up all my time as I have said before. It leaves me very little time for development these days
As @Badwolf has found out, just because something works in one machine does not mean it will work in another. If you multiply this by several projects and trying to get them all to work together, you create yourself a ongoing nightmare Again it is why I simply " abandoned" doing anything with original machines anymore. Just look at all the threads of people with malfunctioning machines and then trying to get multiple add-ons to work which turns into a ongoing nightmare as well.
Point being that the DSTB1 is going to be the "low cost" accelerator for the H5 until the SEC booster gets done. Which will then be a extremely fast and also extremely expensive accelerator. But again I am not really doing this for the H5 platform as such. It is just a personal project to see what speed I can get a 68K up to. I will make a small number of boards if people want them both realistically there is not that many people who will want one. Plus like I said, the SEC is really just a stepping stone board for working out the kinks on a high-speed system for when we get back to the FPGA cores. The SEC booster will be the CPU used still, but alt-ram will be obsolete at that point anyway.
The H5 is a new platform with everything designed and tested specifically for it. If you want to add some features then you plug it in and you are done. Problem being that there is only really myself and @Icky working on the H5 addons and neither of us have a lot of time to spend on it at the moment. Plus usual parts shortages have hampered efforts as well.. But anyway getting off topic..Overall I'm just trying to " clear the decks" of all outstanding projects so I can concentrate on the FPGA cores.