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Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« on: January 14, 2023, 11:49:18 PM »
@FOLLETT

Both “full” and “lite” have FPGAs, the “full” uses Lattice LFE5U-12F-6BG256C and the “lite” uses Efinix Trion T8Q144C4…

Which one is available for cheap in large quantities, and which is not, do you think?
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2023, 10:44:31 PM »
This discussion is bordering to silly. What I recall from discussions on discord was that there indeed was a “chip shortage” problem, the “full” board, as it was originally designed was a challenge (in particular the FPGA). So a redisign was almost needed anyhow. Yes, raspberry pis have been close to impossible to buy at all - BUT - CM4 was the one mostly available all through the troubled times (as I’m sure one can ser from rpilocator.com via archive.org). However, a pistorm board that can accept just about any old raspberry pi is a huge advantage, as many of us indeed have them lying around. So why not.

With the adapter board, it may even be possible to install CM4 on “old” Pistorm and Pistorm600.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2023, 06:45:24 PM »
Yeah Michal Schulz is the lead on the lite board
That would violate RHOS!!

But really, it’s Claude who made also the pistorm32 lite board.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2023, 06:01:01 AM »
@BozzerBigD
Of course he is - Emu68 is his, and yes, he’s come up with an adapter board for CM4 - not that these didn’t already exist, but the there’s a need for one that physically fits inside the A1200 case, with pistorm32 lite. Which is the work of Claude. There is also Pistorm without Emu68, and instead using Musashi 68k emulator running as a process under Linux on the pi, with lots of additional features developed in cooperation with Niklas from the A314 project. Such as filesharing, networking and more.

If you go to the nightly downloads of Emu68, you see two downloads - one for pistorm, and one for raspberry pi. The latter one is for running Emu68 on a “stand-alone” raspberry pi. The idea is that in time, AROS/68k will boot and run on this, without any amiga hardware attached. For now, Pistorm is the best platform for maturing Emu68, with all the software available.

And then there’s ARIX…
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2023, 06:35:31 PM »
When you use Emu68, you just need one extension cable, for HDMI.
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2023, 02:20:46 PM »
Will you write the drivers needed?
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2023, 01:25:41 PM »
Got an extra 50 mips out of mine, by adding 040 FPU libraries to rom. Now getting 900 Mips, :).

???

MIPS? MFLOPS? ROM vs disk? What?!
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS
 

Offline kolla

Re: PiStorm Full and Lite Discussion
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2023, 06:11:57 PM »
What was “before”? It doesn’t make any sense, why would it be faster with libs in rom rather than loading them from disk? And is FPU even involved in MIPS?
« Last Edit: February 03, 2023, 06:12:53 PM by kolla »
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A3000/060CSPPC+CVPPC/128MB + 256MB BigRAM/Deneb USB
A4000/CS060/Mediator4000Di/Voodoo5/128MB
A1200/Blz1260/IndyAGA/192MB
A1200/Blz1260/64MB
A1200/Blz1230III/32MB
A1200/ACA1221
A600/V600v2/Subway USB
A600/Apollo630/32MB
A600/A6095
CD32/SX32/32MB/Plipbox
CD32/TF328
A500/V500v2
A500/MTec520
CDTV
MiSTer, MiST, FleaFPGAs and original Minimig
Peg1, SAM440 and Mac minis with MorphOS