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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: amigakit on January 26, 2023, 05:46:39 PM
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Amiga Kit Amiga Store is pleased to announce that the PiStorm32 Lite (https://amigakit.amiga.store/pistorm-lite-commodore-amiga-1200-p-91306.html) is now available for pre-ordering. We hope you like the low price we assemble them for the community!
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great news now only to source a cm4 Pi too
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for this to work with a CM4 Pi you also need an adapter.
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True, but they're on their way and unless you already have a full sized RPi in your sock drawer or you are very impatient (there's a electronic supply shortage on don't you know) the CM4 plus adapter seems the way to go! I think the CM4 is about half the price of the RPi 4 and there seems slightly more availability of the CM4s.
CM4 adapter news:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cm4-is-dead-long-77876831 (https://www.patreon.com/posts/cm4-is-dead-long-77876831)
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Don't know, just having 850000 Drystones, SD HDD and 348MB Fast RAM is good enough for me.
Raspberry Pi 3A+ does quite well considering.
Yes connectors are awkward and CM4 board, does offer NVME slot, however if I really wanted HDMI, Audio, etc etc. I would make it work.
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Will the 3a or 3b fit nicely inside the case without an adapter that the cm4 needs ?
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Yes. See pictures on the Wiki showing installation with a RPi 3 A:
http://wiki.amiga.org/index.php/Pistorm32-Lite
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All U.K. preorders of Pistorm32-lite (https://www.amigakit.com/pistorm32-lite-commodore-amiga-1200-p-91306.html) have been assembled in house and sent out this week. Most USA and Canadian orders have been fulfilled too
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I would like to order one to the U.S. but sorry, Amigakit's track record hasn't been that good to me. Communication or otherwise.
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@David Wright
Everyone deserves a second chance in my view. AmigKit have hired another member of staff in the last year to help with communication, logistics and P&P. Even in the busy old days they came through for me in the end every time just with some delayed communication here and there. They are the real deal it's just we all rub each other up the wrong way/fail to live up to each others expectations sometimes when the market is growing (hence more enquiries/orders) but so to are the number of small cottage industry companies vying for our business. This creates tension e.g. Vampire vs PiStorm and RetroPassion vs AmigaKit. That's life but we shouldn't really question their integrity in striving for good customer service when the rubber hits the road. Choose your retailer (AmigaKit currently seems very reasonable with good quality of assembly) for the PiStorm32 and enjoy!
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@David Wright
Everyone deserves a second chance in my view. AmigKit have hired another member of staff in the last year to help with communication, logistics and P&P. Even in the busy old days they came through for me in the end every time just with some delayed communication here and there. They are the real deal it's just we all rub each other up the wrong way/fail to live up to each others expectations sometimes when the market is growing (hence more enquiries/orders) but so to are the number of small cottage industry companies vying for our business. This creates tension e.g. Vampire vs PiStorm and RetroPassion vs AmigaKit. That's life but we shouldn't really question their integrity in striving for good customer service when the rubber hits the road. Choose your retailer (AmigaKit currently seems very reasonable with good quality of assembly) for the PiStorm32 and enjoy!
There is no tension between our company and AK, spoke to Chris on the phone a while ago and we have ordered odds and ends from them, yes we are a competitor but that's healthy and fun we also order from other competitors and they order from us, It's all good!
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Good to hear it. Friendly competition/collaboration is the way forward.
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Well I just ordered through Amigakit, will see how it goes.
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Well I'll the man his due. Got my pistorm board in less than a week from ordering to Michigan. Thanks Matthew.
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@David Wright
It is great news that the package arrived quickly and safely. Our team members, Chris and Ross worked hard to get a lot of pre-orders out last week including your order.
Have fun with the PiStorm32 Lite (https://www.amigakit.com/pistorm32-lite-commodore-amiga-1200-p-91306.html)
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I'm in line, I can't wait for it to arrive. Thanks so much for all the things you do for the community with great products at honest prices, I'm so glad you are there.
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Well I'll the man his due. Got my pistorm board in less than a week from ordering to Michigan. Thanks Matthew.
You must have been lucky to get an earlier batch, I orderd on Feb 8 and still am "processing". But it is going to be well worth the wait, and I know they are working hard to get these out.
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I can vouch for them working hard to get these out! I'm still waiting for a, "That's ok in theory but we will have to wait for the CM4 adapter design to be uploaded to GitHub before we can answer your query." -type response from their ticketing system presumably because it's all hands on deck right now (all 6 of them)!!!
I sent the ticket message on 22/02/2023. Maybe they could cut and paste what I've just written in speech marks above and send it back to me so that I can at least see that it's been acknowledged? At least they are better than British Gas on that front! ;D
Looking forward to all the Pistorm32 with CM4 Module fun later in the year!
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I see that my order has shipped, so huzzah for the hard work! I can't even imagine what the madness must look like trying to get these all prepped and out the door, but it is much appreciateed!!
Now it seems it is lost in the black hole that is the Northampton Peak Parcel Hub. :(
It managed to escape the black hole and is in the US at customs. So excited! :) Thanks AmigaKit!!
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@amigakit
We hope that you can pop up for air and answer some tickets in the near future! I know you've "got to make hay while the sun shines" but most people just want a confirmation and the hope that the 'message in a bottle' ticket service on your website actually reached the shore! I know I'm not technically your priority right now, being a second wave CM4 based PiStorm32 prospective customer, but it's good to keep the communication going! Have a nice day!
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@amigakit
We hope that you can pop up for air and answer some tickets in the near future! I know you've "got to make hay while the sun shines" but most people just want a confirmation and the hope that the 'message in a bottle' ticket service on your website actually reached the shore! I know I'm not technically your priority right now, being a second wave CM4 based PiStorm32 prospective customer, but it's good to keep the communication going! Have a nice day!
What tickets? do you mean emails? if the latter. I have not seen any emails relating to you.
PM me email, so I can check to see if we have received anything.
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Hi, I wanted to buy the PiStorm32-Lite A1200 full package version on retropassion website, but I can't create an account,can anyone help me?
Thank you.
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My message was entered on the Contact Form Section of your website. I don't seem to have received ANY confirmation following the message other than the initial, "Your message has been received, we will endeavour to get back to you within 7 working days....etc, etc" on the website itself!
Luckily, I also copied the message into TextEdit on my Mac to provide a rudimentary 'paper trail' should stuff like this happen! I'll PM you the message but if the web based 'Contact Form' page isn't working correctly then it should be checked out IMHO because that might be the root of some of these communication issues that I've faced.
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THX
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Replied. Thanks!
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There's amazing progress going on with the CM4 fork of the Pistorm32 Lite hardware development (see link)! It would be nice even at this early stage for UK Amiga stockists to pledge support for these future products! Amigastore.eu have already informed me that they will stock the Pistorm32 Lite with CM4 adapter board, the IO port module plus cable and a pre-installed SD card once the designs are uploaded to Github! 8)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/eagle-has-landed-79775148 (https://www.patreon.com/posts/eagle-has-landed-79775148)
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The final Emu68 incompatibilities have been solved for the RPi4/CM4 Modules!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/79849347?utm_campaign=postshare_creator (https://www.patreon.com/posts/79849347?utm_campaign=postshare_creator)
There's now no reason for the Amiga stockists not to roll out bundles offering a Pistorm32 card along with CM4 adapter board, the IO breakout ports and cable (along with preconfigured SD cards if required) once the designs are uploaded to Github! Exciting times!
Your move Amigakit!
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQKain1X0Lcs8b9KreTw8bZAt4V99yx_5-vKw&usqp=CAU)
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Interesting, I'll try to ask for this new implementation where I ordered the Pistorm32.
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@amigakit
The delivery date for my CM4 has just slipped from July to September so don't worry about getting back to me about the Amiga Expo Kickstart 01 drop off idea. It would have been nice to pick up the hardware in person but I guess if you answer my question and build up too much hype for the CM4 solution you could lose sales on the RPi3A/regular RPi solutions! Will be good to see you at the show.
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@Thread
The CM4 adapter board designs for the Pistorm32 Lite are now on GitHub! 8)
https://github.com/PiStorm (https://github.com/PiStorm)
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@BozzerBigD What improves? ::)
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It allows you to use a CM4 board which features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor (faster than a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 RPi3/THEA500 Mini spec CPU), it will come with an optional 'break-out' board to send the Ethernet, HDMI and USB to a port to mount on the A1200 Expansion Port (improving airflow compared to full size RPi boards) and best of all the Emu68 software compatibility issues with CM4/RPi4 has been solved in the week proceeding this hardware release meaning there are basically no negatives! Finally, CM4 Modules though still difficult to source, are more readily available and cheaper than the comparable RPi4!
Note: Current RPi4 revisions are June 2019 technology and the CM4 was released in late 2020 (compared to 2018 for the latest RPi3A+ revision). We are overdue a RPi5 at this point in all honesty! We might as well support the latest revision of the RPi4/CM4 and squeeze what we need for Amiga CPU emulation out of it IMHO!
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Of course, CM4 will be “old” before drivers for anything on the breakout board exist for Emu68 :)
(Luckily, there’s the option of just Linux on the pi and using Musashi while waiting)
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@kolla
Considering Claude has been planning this break-out board since the original Pistorm32 'Full' Version in Aug 2021, I'm guessing between Michal and himself they've got the drivers covered by now! ;)
From Twitter:
Claude Schwarz
@Claude1079
Aug 21, 2021
Replying to
@durniplot
Oh, there is gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and 4k HDMI :) Through the FPC connector. The FPC cable goes to a small breakout pcb which gives easy access to these interfaces trough the small trapdoor on the A1200 backside.
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Well, Claude primarily works with the “original” Pistorm concept - Linux on RPi with Musashi 68k emulator.
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Well they seem a petty close knit team almost 1.5 years on! Claude plans a Pistorm32 'Full' Model that utilised a CM4 and now Michal fulfils that vision by adapting the 'Lite' Model and vice versa with the software/drivers as far as I can see!
It's actually a picture of teamwork and cross-pollination that has been missing in the AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS space IMHO! Only Trevor seems on-board with a collective multi-flavour teamwork approach in the NG sphere!
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Just don’t hold your breath is what I’m saying :)
And don’t get rid of pcmcia ethernet and wifi cards quite yet.
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@Thread
I think communication with UK vendors has run its course here. See the thread below or the PiStorm Discord Channel for interesting discussion about Pistorm32 future products:
https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=44822&forum=25&start=120&viewmode=flat&order=0 (https://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id=44822&forum=25&start=120&viewmode=flat&order=0)