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Re: Buddha 2018
« on: September 22, 2018, 03:44:02 AM »
Quote from: gizmo350;837295
Great! I think Curtis needs to do that too - at least check his revision.

@gazsp If the BFlashTool V1.3 is loaded, will it show the current revision without actually flashing CPLD?

@curtis Here's the latest flash tool for 20th anniversary Buddha.... :)
http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:BFlashTool.lha

Just remember the CPLD update tool is a different utility, named Buddha_CPLD.  It comes in a separate archive on the iComp wiki.  You have to use a cable you either make, or Jens sends you (at the end of March) to update the CPLD from the Amiga's parallel port to the header on the card itself.  The card MUST be plugged into a Zorro slot at the time, else, the card will not be detected by the CPLD update utility, and it will error out and fail. 

The flash ROM, instead, can be updated directly to the card over the Zorro bus with no cables, from command line.

Make sure, with both utilities, that when they ask if you want to proceed with updating, you press CAPITAL Y, else it will not start.


To update the CPLD, you need BOTH of these archives (one is the update files, the other is the updater):

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:Buddha_CPLD.zip

http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/File:BuddhaCPLD.lha

Update the CPLD *first* and then flash the ROM, else it doesn't work.  After doing both of my cards, they now work as they should.
Hello there,

I just ordered a BUDDHA card for a A2000 that's been sitting idle for a year.
Done everything possible I could with HW for A2000 last time I had it out,  so this Card appeared to be a interesting project.
I've got IDE Drives, SD Cards, Compact Flash Cards, and associate IDE Adapters, and other stuff for the Fully Loaded A2k.

From what I read thru on this thread there are some issues that need to be worked thru (in in post quoted), but otherwise it works.

Is that true?
Anything else I should know about from everyone's experience with a A2000.

Looking forward to the Card Arriving.