REV 3 - REV 5 - The beginning (ST536)

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stephen_usher wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:53 pm Re: Name. Maybe ask @terriblefire if it would be OK to put an 'S' prefix on the name, i.e. STF536?
Yeah I could do that..
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exxos wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:27 pm
stephen_usher wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:53 pm Re: Name. Maybe ask @terriblefire if it would be OK to put an 'S' prefix on the name, i.e. STF536?
Yeah I could do that..
TBH... probably best just to drop the TF536 altogether lest some amiga person buys one thinking it will work in their machine.

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Muahahaha...

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Running from fast ram... (cache is hardwired off in this test)

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Oddly though, when BLTFIX.PRG is run the floppy starts to malfunction The screen gets corrupted and it crashes :shrug:

EDIT:
This current STE is 512K machine.. so maybe it needs more RAM...

EDIT2:
OK so when caches are on the floppy malfunctions then it seems :roll: This machine does not have any other fixes done either yet so it could be anything..
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exxos wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 4:43 pm Running from fast ram... (cache is hardwired off in this test)
Those new benchmarks must be so good because of the blue heatsink :D
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It looks like there is a bit of noise on one of the data lines as it will only boot with the scope probe on it now :roll:

This setup seems be suffering similar problems as when MAPROM was run, it would start corrupting the floppy contents.

I have been trying to get EMUTOS working, but that seems to suffer a similar problem where the floppy stops working when it has loaded. This board will otherwise run perfectly fine on my H4 under TOS206 / EMUTOS.


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Looks like with TOS206 it doesn't like the caches on for floppy.. and yet on a H4 I don't have this problem :shrug:
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Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?
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Steve wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:14 pm Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?
Only got black ones in my store, do people really want blue ones ?! :roll:
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Now running the 16MB alt-ram patch of EMUTOS that BW did for me.. (from floppy) then running the patched MAPROM, then GB6..

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exxos wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:22 pm
Steve wrote: Mon Apr 26, 2021 10:14 pm Please can you tell us when the blue heat sink will be ready for release?
Only got black ones in my store, do people really want blue ones ?! :roll:
Only because of the extra performance it provides, source: your screenshots
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Yeah, blue or purple please :lol:

P.s. compatible machine for benchmark maybe? Tos1.04 on one if them
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