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Offline kolla

Re: Pistorm operation
« on: November 16, 2024, 02:16:29 PM »
Pretty much what one has eluded to… 👍🏻🙄

No, what you’ve been claiming is that just booting off from floppy is enough to disable Emu68 - that’s just wrong.
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Offline kolla

Re: Pistorm operation
« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2024, 11:16:23 AM »
No help to the OP here.

And your answers are helpful? Half the time you provide "help", you blend in false information and unfounded claims, which is frustrating to read. If you AT LEAST could do a little research before "helping" and be a little more humble when making bold claims.

So back to topic… disclaimer, I don’t have PiStorm32, only a handful of older PiStorms.

Glitches - yes, it’s normal that games made for OCS/ECS A500 cause various glitches on AGA systems such as A1200. As mentioned, this is why "downgraders" exist, such as for example WHDLoad.
Kickstart 3.0 or 3.2.2.1 doesn’t matter much.

- PiStorm needs SD card to work, but it doesn’t really need any "special" formatting, plain staright-from-factory partitioning is good enough.
- PiStorm needs the Raspberry Pi firmware files as well as Emu68 present on the SD card
- kickstart file on SD card, referred to in the pistorm config, will override physical kickstart roms
- with the above present, a PiStorm behaves just any other A1200 accelerator card.
- exception from above for RPi4/CM4 which may be just a little slow to initialize, causing the A1200 to boot from motherboard 68EC020 CPU for a few seconds before resetting with Emu68 as CPU
- booting from floppy, PCMCIA card, IDE drive on mother board or from "special" partition on SD, has no impact on whether the A1200 will boot with 68020 or Emu68 as CPU, regardless of boot priority
- PiStorm will be disabled if SD card is not present
- PiStorm will be disabled if Emu68 or firmwares are not present on SD card
- PiStorm can apparently be disabled by long-pressing ctrl-a-a, which keeps it disabled till next power cycle (or perhaps another long pressed ctrl-a-a?), this feature exists also on other acc. boards.





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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 operation
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2024, 02:17:31 PM »
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Looks, like Doug @10MARC may need to do a follow up video.

Well, gee wizz… if you ask me, almost all his videos could need follow ups, he too has this ability to spread false information with strong confidence, typically based his own misunderstandings.

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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