Apollo 1260

[Mauro73]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to install everything I need to make this card work on my A1200.

I've downloaded the driver disk from Amiga Hardware Database.

As soon as I try to run the file "Apollo-Install5.0" the Amiga OS shows me this message "Apollo-Install needs at least 20000 bytes of stack !".

I don't know if I've tried to run the correct file but anyway, what does that message mean? How can I solve this?

Is there someone that can tell me the correct procedure to install the Apollo 1260 card and it's related software?

Thank you in advance my precious crew  :-D

Mauro

[cv643d]

I think I have looked at that disk too and it was different than the one I got provided with my Apollo 1260.

[Mauro73]

cv643d wrote:
I think I have looked at that disk too and it was different than the one I got provided with my Apollo 1260.

Oh! So I'm lost :-(

[Rob]

There's a drawer on the disk called 68060.  Copy the CPU60 command to C: and the 3 libraries to Libs:

[DoogUK]

Agree's with Rob...that's pretty much all you need unless you want to use remapollo to remap kickstart to fast mem.

[Mauro73]

DoogUK wrote:
Agree's with Rob...that's pretty much all you need unless you want to use remapollo to remap kickstart to fast mem.

Ok thank you for the advice. And all that has to be done before I plug the board into the A1200 or after?

Mauro

[Damion]

Before

[Mauro73]

-D- wrote:
Before

It's ok then, I must be a lucky boy because that's the way I was doing it  :-)

I let you know how is gone and if it works

Thank you very much for now  ;-)

[Mauro73]

Ok, I've done everything you told me but when I run "ShowConfig" here is the reasult:

PROCESSOR:             CPU 68040/68040fpu/68030mmu


The 32MB ram are seen without problems.

Is there anything I miss? May be I've to add something into the startup-sequence?

Mauro

[Mauro73]

now I've tried to use MuLib aware 68060, 68040, 68030 and 68030.libraries found on AmiNet and that's what ShoConfig shows:

"Processor:      CPU 6840"


hummmm  :-o

[BuzzBrain]

Hi.

Just use the blizzard 040 fake lib and 060 lib.

Then fly.

I used to have the same problem as you.. But it works with blizzards libs.

I have not used the copy rom  to fastmem util. with blizzards libs..so I do not know if it work.

BuzzBrain

[Mauro73]

BuzzBrain wrote:
Hi.

Just use the blizzard 040 fake lib and 060 lib.

Then fly.

Where can I find such libs?

BuzzBrain wrote:
I used to have the same problem as you.. But it works with blizzards libs.

I have not used the copy rom  to fastmem util. with blizzards libs..so I do not know if it work.

BuzzBrain

mmhh ok. Now I've noticed another thing:

on my board the clk jumper is set to "040" but on the big book of amiga hardware the Apollo1260 060@50MHz is set to "060".
I mean I've seen the front 060 50MHz photo and the clk jumper is set to 060.

If I try to change my jumper setting to 060 my A1200 powers on but apart from that it does nothing, it does not proceed with the whole boot sequence.

If I remove that clk jumper (so the two position are open) it happens the same thing as i set it to 060.

Once I set it to 040 back again I obtain a series of software failures, then the whole thing start to work fine (more or less).

Strange uh?  :-?

[Damion]

Hi Mauro,

Sounds like a problem with your libraries; you probably have the Commodore 68040 library installed.

68040.library should be small in size, about 1 block. (It's a "fake" library, which loads the needed 68060 library.)

Later versions of setpatch (I don't know when it started, but 44.38 at least) load the 68060 library directly, and don't need an '040 lib.

About the CLK jumper -- set to 040 is OK, all this does is cut the RAM speed in half. (At 50 MHz, the CPU runs at full speed, while the RAM runs at 25 MHz.) The card is picky about RAM, and sticks that run at 50+ MHz are somewhat rare.

If all else fails, I can email you a working install disk, just let me know.

[Mauro73]

-D- wrote:

If all else fails, I can email you a working install disk, just let me know.

Thank you very much -D-

yes the whole thing continues to fail. If you can send me a working install disk I'll be grateful forever   :-)

Thank you again

Mauro