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Amiga Marketplace / Re: Amiga 2000 + keyboard + mouse + monitor + floppies + card
« Last post by Flop on April 28, 2024, 10:19:24 PM »550 EUR Last price drop otherwise will keep.
My guess, if I were someone else, would be that capacitors were going down the swaney, and providing too low voltage.
When you add this bit, please can you include setting it to read/write and mounting on the Amiga side? I do this and it allows me to update the version of Emu68 without taking the card out. I'm not in front of my machine right now, but I'm happy to contribute the steps if you want.
Before making this video, please watch (this section) as you'll get an idea of the issue....
Amiga 4000: Is the Fastlane Z3 the best home for a BlueSCSIv2 Upgrade?
When I filmed that, I had to post process it A LOT to increase its brightness to acceptable levels for this video. I had assumed that the issue was to do with the RGB to SCART cable (unlikely) or that my trusty SAMSUNG LED with SCART was on its way out (more likely).
However, today, I tested this by plugging in my A500, and the video looks bright and clear, as I remember it. So, A4000 has a problem .
Calling on the ancient wisdom of the Amiga collective. Would anyone know what this is a symptom of?
My guess, if I were someone else, would be that capacitors were going down the swaney, and providing too low voltage. However, I had this machine re-capped just last year. So its very unlikely this is the issue. However, the recap was because of some leakage in the video area, however, I was lucky in that it seemed to be early days. I have cleaned that area, so Im surprised if its on-going corrosion.
Anyway, over to you guys. Wondering if Christ Edwards lurks here, as I would assume he might recognise the issue...
Ah, indeed, the video is...
Amiga 4000: Is the Fastlane Z3 the best home for a BlueSCSIv2 Upgrade?
Enjoy
That's the impression that I got reading the 68000 datasheet and noting that the Amiga has no actual M6800 peripherals.
Definitely.
That's a point. Currently /VMA is unconnected on the PCB (and per the schematic), I guess there's an internal pullup...? What's the consequence of the short E pulse?
I did not find the pound sign (#) in the list of standard boolean operators. What did you mean?
I'm not familiar with the .D and .T notation. What did you mean? ETERM and EDTACK symbols are connected to what?
I found a dedicated divider part that will generate the proper frequency E pulse in under 1ns. That will definitely get it working, at least on par with the unmodified 14MHz accelerator. I like the fact that it keeps with the minimalist spirit of the original project in OP. But latching with the rising edge of the 7MHz clock is definitely something that I can do. I also found a decade counter that would let me generate it from the 7MHz reference.
Yeah, I had a hunch about that, are you able to quantify what is affected by the pulse width?
Nice project, useful toward "Amiga-like computer from scratch" projects that don't use any original Amiga components (which will be my final goal, eventually). Thanks for providing the code. I wouldn't mind learning that type of PLD syntax/notation. I'm more fluent with VHDL and Verilog.
So the unmodified 14MHz accelerator has a problem I noted a while back. I have an ide68k+mem68k sandwich, and it does not work at all with the 14MHz accelerator, I get flashing colors when I power on the machine. At 28MHz I get a black screen with this peripheral. Unfortunately I don't have them separately so I don't know which of them has the problem, I got this peripheral with one of my A1000. It does work properly with the stock 7MHz 68000. Do you have any idea what could be the issue? I might give it a closer look next week to see which signals are connected so I could eliminate some factors. I will be building two kinds of IDE interface, so need to put together BOMs for that.
I need to gather parts lists from multiple projects, then I'll be able to continue with this. I like to build large carts to save on shipping. I really like the lists feature on DigiKey as it lets me keep BOMs for projects.