Author Topic: New project for the benefit of all classic computing! (Read 50376 times)

TheRogue · « **Reply #104 from previous page:** November 14, 2012, 08:51:43 AM »

Quote from: noXLar;714912

Nice work.. is this a zorro card?

Yes sir it is, a Zorro II USB controller. I will be doing up an A500 version shortly, just so the A500 can have a USB solution that doesn't require a clockport or adapter. Thanks for the kind words!

yssing · « **Reply #105 on:** November 14, 2012, 09:24:38 AM »

would it be possible to ad an USB hub to the card, so you have 4 USB ports on the card?
Maybe 3 external and 1 internal.

take a look at http://www.gb97816.homepage.t-online.de/projekte.htm, his rev 5 of the GBA has a 060 soldered directly to the mobo.

mingle · « **Reply #106 on:** November 14, 2012, 09:29:07 AM »

When I read the thread title, I couldn't help but think of Borat...

wawrzon · « **Reply #107 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:03:15 PM »

two things:
there is an improved redesign of thylacine underway already:

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=34299

and another batch of subways is going to hit the stores:

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33342

sorry forums in english you will have to use translation services.

btw, why replicate the thylacine 1:1? you just waste the board space, and it costs, try to make it as small as possible.

wawrzon · « **Reply #108 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:04:18 PM »

also here limited batch of redesigned gba1000 with 060:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33085

koaftder · « **Reply #109 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:23:33 PM »

Quote from: wawrzon;714929

also here limited batch of redesigned gba1000 with 060:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=33085

I have one of these boards and have never gotten around to assembling it. Any idea of how many of these projects ever got completed?

wawrzon · « **Reply #110 on:** November 14, 2012, 02:00:04 PM »

Quote from: koaftder;714930

I have one of these boards and have never gotten around to assembling it. Any idea of how many of these projects ever got completed?

no. a rather small precentage of people who bought such board will be realistically able to build a working system around it. think of technical expertise and equipment necessary. thats likely the reason why georg doesnt want to release bigger batches. because the amount of work and support after the release is not to handle by single person and beyond that generates no return. i have doubts if just a single of the few existing gba1k has been assembled working without extensive help from georg.

Crumb · « **Reply #111 on:** November 14, 2012, 05:25:27 PM »

Quote from: ChaosLord;714782

@Plaz

Jens Schoenfeld has never made an 060 card that I have ever heard about.

Do you know Amiga Phoenix project? AFAIK Jens helped the author with the 060 SDRAM memory controller

http://www.gb97816.homepage.t-online.de/projekte.htm

Plaz · « **Reply #112 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:28:46 PM »

Quote from: Crumb;714948

Do you know Amiga Phoenix project?

Yes, I am also the proud owner of a partially complete GBA1000.

Plaz

yssing · « **Reply #113 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:31:56 PM »

I have the tools to assembly such a board.

bloodline · « **Reply #114 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:38:59 PM »

Quote from: yssing;714921

would it be possible to ad an USB hub to the card, so you have 4 USB ports on the card?
Maybe 3 external and 1 internal.

Or better yet, do like the RaspberryPi and use a lan9512 USB hub chip that has built in Ethernet!!

Methuselas · « **Reply #115 on:** November 15, 2012, 12:31:34 AM »

Quote from: TheRogue;714916

Yes sir it is, a Zorro II USB controller. I will be doing up an A500 version shortly, just so the A500 can have a USB solution that doesn't require a clockport or adapter. Thanks for the kind words!

Now you have my attention!

Plaz · « **Reply #116 on:** November 15, 2012, 01:02:22 AM »

Quote from: yssing;714991

I have the tools to assembly such a board.

Thanks, but spare time and interest are what lacking these days. On tools I'm fine. Just remembered too... I'm the one that translated the english version of the GBA1000 manual. Uhg, so many projects so little time. Off to the next one.

Plaz

Iggy · « **Reply #117 on:** November 15, 2012, 03:21:57 AM »

Quote from: Iggy;714890

One thing that Thomas and the Natami team did uncover while they were still working together, the later '060s without a built in math co-processor were very overclockable.
100MHz easy with some able to pull 120MHz.
Why not develop a software math library and try to use these (they're cheap btw)?

Not sure why you guys didn't find that interesting, but for God's sake... 120MHz.

Thorham · « **Reply #118 on:** November 15, 2012, 09:36:40 AM »

Quote from: Iggy;715003

Not sure why you guys didn't find that interesting, but for God's sake... 120MHz.

What do you even need that for? Crappy bloatware ports?

spirantho · « **Reply #119 on:** November 15, 2012, 09:43:46 AM »

I just want to stick my oar in here.

This thread has some great ideas, but for goodness sake - keep it simple. Don't start off doing an accelerator and then add so many things it never gets finished. Asking on an Amiga forum is always risky when you want ideas, because you'll see what happened with NatAmi (and look what happened there) - Feature Creep City.

Set your sights on a simple thing to start. Do that - gain experience, not just of the hardware, but of the market. Then work on something else. Don't start work on an 060 card and get carried away designing USB, SATA, SCSI, Firewire and everything else.

Let's get the most simple thing done first - just make a simple board. Proof of concept. Then worry about making things more complicated. It worries me that the thread started talking about just manufacturing open source designs of other people, and now people are talking about designing super-fast CPU accelerators with modern RAM and USB and stuff.

Let's not try and run before we can walk, otherwise we'll all fall over.