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Offline midway

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Re: Any in the known universe to have a Delfina run perfectly stable
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 08, 2013, 05:16:01 AM »
The Delfina Flipper which I attached to a VarIO`s clockport and use through AmigaAMP runs stable.
 
I have been running it for up to 6 hours in a row (tonight only one hour) without issues. Using AMPlifier and the delfina.library looks different... sometimes it crashes after 20 minutes sometimes after an hour..
 
So I use AmigaAMP and it works !
 
I use mhimdev.library, 256 kb load buffer, play buffer 1sec
 
I have a CS MKI with 128 MB ram, SCSI module, and a subway usb card on a ISDN card which has a clockport for that one.
 
It took a little tinkering but this solution seems stable
 

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Re: Any in the known universe to have a Delfina run perfectly stable
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2013, 09:14:14 AM »
Quote from: matt3k;737061
I have played with different libraries (4.14, 4.16. 4.16B, 4.17B), Delfmem, and Delfinit.  I haven't found the magic combination to make it perfectly (or real close to it) stable yet.


I don't have Delfina anymore but if I remember correctly, the problem seemed to be in the DSP system software, in the multitasking / time-sharing part. It locked up very easily.

Disabling Delfina's Watchdog helped, but it didn't solve the problem.

You could try DelfTweak. You can increase DSP's internal clock cycles with it, which may help. I wrote it for Delfina Lite so I don't know how it actually affects on Delfina Plus. However, Delfina Lite and Plus have the same DSP so it should work.
 

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Re: Any in the known universe to have a Delfina run perfectly stable
« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2013, 12:34:39 PM »
Solved!!!

Thanks especially to Midway, Damion, and Matt_H (Damion and Matt had older threads that helped.)

It runs perfectly stable even WITH the screen saver running.  I ran it for over 24 hours with a mix of mp2's and mp3's with BTD screen saver.  

In the end, yes the Delfina was a bit of a pain to find the magic combo, but the card is simply awesome.  Little CPU load, friendly on the zorro bus, and excellent sound quality.  

Here was my winning combination:
AmigaAmp (Amplifier tends to crash over time).  Latest 68K version from their website.
MHI
DelfinaMpeg Version: 1.6
Delfina.library Version 6.14 B3 Patch #2.
Delfinit NOPATCH Quiet - to init the card.
I used the same settings as Midway for Amigaamp 1s and 256k for playback settings.

Thanks again to all that helped!  
Even though I use a Delfina Plus, I'm sure that this would work fine on a Lite also and maybe even the original Delfina zorro card.  Have no idea if the clockport version will work well with my setup.
 

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Re: Any in the known universe to have a Delfina run perfectly stable
« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2013, 01:35:32 PM »
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The Delfina Flipper which I attached to a VarIO`s clockport and use through AmigaAMP runs stable.
 
I have been running it for up to 6 hours in a row (tonight only one hour) without issues. Using AMPlifier and the delfina.library looks different... sometimes it crashes after 20 minutes sometimes after an hour..
 
So I use AmigaAMP and it works !
 
I use mhimdev.library, 256 kb load buffer, play buffer 1sec
 
I have a CS MKI with 128 MB ram, SCSI module, and a subway usb card on a ISDN card which has a clockport for that one.
 
It took a little tinkering but this solution seems stable


So the VarIO does have a clockport? It is unclear on the BBOAH. Does it work also with Subway and other devices?
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Re: Any in the known universe to have a Delfina run perfectly stable
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2013, 06:53:56 PM »
Glad to hear you got it to work !
 
2 xanxi: yes, the VarIO has a clockport. If it works with the delfina it should work with the subway as well. Just remember to plug it in the right way !