Request for CS MK2 firmware image 060

[Boot_WB]

Kin-Hell wrote:

With all respect & for the last time...NO! I already said

With respect, CHILL OUT!  By the way - there are a lot of people on this forum with a lot of Amiga experience (I do not include myself), so do try not to rant in quite such a patronising way.  Help and advice are always appreciated, condescending attitudes never are.
The Cyberstorm boards are ridiculously expesive, so just because

"I already said you can MOD the 040 card to 060 by swapping Resistors on the CS PCB. "

doesn't mean someone is going to risk their hardware on your say-so.

There is no FIRMWARE to flash there-after and a converted 040 to 060 card will perform flawlesly BECAUSE..........the 060 CPU takes it's instructions from the INSTALLED libs, just as ALL different Amiga Accelerators do!
It really is that easy.

Oh and by the way - the Blizzard boards DO have 040/060 libs in their flashmem, and all the libraries in your LIBS drawer don't make a bit of difference because the flashmem ones are made resident at bootup, so that's one more reason no-one is going to risk their CS board on your "I already said you can ..."

Dont confuse "Modern-Bill-Gates-Cr4p-based-hardware-firmware updates" with the Amiga.

You would presumably be referring to anything based around software updateable chips then (eg EEPROM, CMOS, CPLD, PLD) - all of which are present in Amigas and accelerators.

Dammit!  You went and made me make my 250th posting a negative one.  Sigh

[Kin-Hell]

Boot_WB wrote:
Kin-Hell wrote:

With all respect & for the last time...NO! I already said

With respect, CHILL OUT!  By the way - there are a lot of people on this forum with a lot of Amiga experience (I do not include myself), so do try not to rant in quite such a patronising way.  Help and advice are always appreciated, condescending attitudes never are.
The Cyberstorm boards are ridiculously expesive, so just because

"I already said you can MOD the 040 card to 060 by swapping Resistors on the CS PCB. "

doesn't mean someone is going to risk their hardware on your say-so.

There is no FIRMWARE to flash there-after and a converted 040 to 060 card will perform flawlesly BECAUSE..........the 060 CPU takes it's instructions from the INSTALLED libs, just as ALL different Amiga Accelerators do!
It really is that easy.

Oh and by the way - the Blizzard boards DO have 040/060 libs in their flashmem, and all the libraries in your LIBS drawer don't make a bit of difference because the flashmem ones are made resident at bootup, so that's one more reason no-one is going to risk their CS board on your "I already said you can ..."

Dont confuse "Modern-Bill-Gates-Cr4p-based-hardware-firmware updates" with the Amiga.

You would presumably be referring to anything based around software updateable chips then (eg EEPROM, CMOS, CPLD, PLD) - all of which are present in Amigas and accelerators.

Dammit!  You went and made me make my 250th posting a negative one.  Sigh

Perhaps it was your choice to make it a negative one!
It isn't on "my" say so about modding the CS 040 acelerators, you can get all the Info Here:
CS 040 - 060 Mod
and as always, any hardware mods are entirely at the risk of the person doing the mods.
We are also discussing A4000 accelerators, not A1200 ones. The A4000 Bus Architecture differs hugely from the A1200's.
It's a shame, but Forums always seem to put over the wrong impression of people. Forum conversation lacks facial Expression which is very important in any discussion. ;-)

[Kin-Hell]

Flashlab wrote:
I see your point about the libs. Relax! ;-)

Only thing I don't get about your post is that you say that the firmware has no function at all. Why would the unofficial firmware be made at all then? It says in the docs that is does patch ExecExtension!!

Anyway the only problems I get with ShapShifter anyway, but they annoy me frustratingly much!

Yeah Flashlab. The unofficial Flash prog included a couple of extra lines of code which string themselves out when the SCSI side of the card sets itself up. This initialises itself before the Amiga makes any attempt to boot, as it decides which device to use to boot from.
My reference to saying the firmware has no function at all was refering to the Libs/040/060/firmware combinations, which you now have grasped at last. :-)
I never used the unnoficial firmware for my 060 card. I'm a firm believer in if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but from what I have read about this firmware, it made a few enhancements to the Amigas Startup but without any real performance gains.  

[Flashlab]

@Kin-Hell

I'm a believer in if it ain't broke don't fix it too (now more than before;-)), but alas I'm also a bit too curious... so I did flash my CS...

Anyway maybe it doesn't have any influence on my ShapeShifter freezes, but the thought that it MAY bugs me. And the fact that I'm not able to test it with the original firmware is annoying because that's one of the last things I have on my possibilities list.

If you're interested what my problems are with ShapeShifter you can read that here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=21005

[Kin-Hell]

Flashlab wrote:
@Kin-Hell

I'm a believer in if it ain't broke don't fix it too (now more than before;-)), but alas I'm also a bit too curious... so I did flash my CS...

Anyway maybe it doesn't have any influence on my ShapeShifter freezes, but the thought that it MAY bugs me. And the fact that I'm not able to test it with the original firmware is annoying because that's one of the last things I have on my possibilities list.

I know exactly where you're coming from m8y, honestly I do!
I've been in one of these, "What-if" situations so many times myself. It really sux dont it!  :-D

[Flashlab]

Yep... ;-)