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Offline BrianTopic starter

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PowerUP Prototype
« on: September 27, 2004, 02:01:55 PM »
A friend of mine have recently got his hands on a CSMK2 (+SCSI Kit) with a PowerUp Prototype board sandwitched on top of it and wonder if this combo work together with existing PowerUp/WarpOS software? Can it be installed with the same software as for the "real" PowerUp board (CSMK3) or does it requier special software to work or doesn't it work at all?
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2004, 02:56:37 PM »
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2004, 03:12:43 PM »
holy crap thats cool. collectors piece if ever there was one.

yeah the standard powerup software should work with it. also the warpOS installation has the software for it too. it asks what board you have, either the Cyberstorm PPC, the blizzard PPC, or the developers board.

thing that i would be interested in knowing is if the dev board will work in an A2000 piggy backed on a Blizzard 2040/60. if it does then if someone can reverse engineer the board, we could have PPC boards for any machine with an 040/060 slot. heh, PPC A500 machine anyone? just need to find a prgressive peripherals 040 :-) (and preferably a bit more chunky than a 150Mhz 604e). the only drawback being is that you still have no external level 2 cache, and you are limited by the ram speed of the host machine/accelerator.

could you plug a PPC dev board into a cyberstormPPC and have a dual PPC system? mwahahahaha
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2004, 03:33:32 PM »
@Effy
Yes that's the one :)

@darksun9210
Yah.. collectors item all the way but never the less it's going into use so good to know that existing software does work with it.

I very much doubt it work on anything other than the CSMK2 but who knows?
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2004, 03:36:01 PM »
Only one way to find out! :-D
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2004, 04:02:11 PM »
I got one of those.
As allready said you have to tick developerboard while installing WarpOS and it will run just like a real CSPPC.
The drawbacks are: only 150 MHz and it is only a 603, not a 604, RAM ist only 32 bit not 64 bit.
I got my board directly from Thomas Dellert selling it on ebay (got it for just 42.50 EUR incl Shipping  :-D  :-D  :-D  as no one belived that it would actually run)
According to Mr. Dellert it will not run in anything else then an MKII and only the 060 Version ( Voltage, Busclock x 3 ).
I have a small section and photos about this piece of wonder on my HP (sorry, only german text)
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2004, 05:36:54 PM »
Talking about cheap... my friend got this one as "free extras" together with some other stuff when he bought an A4000/CSPPC060(MK3) system for only about 220EUR. He's one lucky dude! :-o
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Offline darksun9210

Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2004, 05:39:20 PM »
hmmm. looking at the pictures provided by lemmink (cheers bud :)) i would guess that the PPC voltage is provided by the host card and the floppy power is for the fan. i don't recognise any voltage regulator IC's there, and the lack of capacitors is a bit of a clue i suppose, but i'm no expert in electronics...

so its a 3x multiplyer, off of the 680x0 clock, and it pulls the voltage off of the CPU as well.. so it MUST have to sit in an 060 socket i guess...

the only other thing is that i imagine the warpOS HAL has been built for the A4000's memory addressing and access. i don't know how similar this is to the Blizzard 2060's memory layout...

its not the hardware thats the problem, that can be tweeked. its just rebuilding the WapOS kernal i wouyld find a little daunting.  :-o

even if it just runs in your A4000, have fun!  :-)
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Re: PowerUP Prototype
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2004, 06:07:56 PM »
If the board doesn't work for you, contact me! I have a MKII.
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