Good news on the TF530
Steven is making great progress lately on the TF530. He's solved many of the firmware issues with the TF530 and has it running at full speed. He's working on the the SPI ports next. He's also announced that he's started work on the TF540, a 68040 accelerator with some cool features.
#TF530CCC
https://youtu.be/RjrRBH0PqBg
Adrian Garay I got my last part I was waiting for yesterday. I'm hoping to start on my first board this weekend.
ReplyDeleteIt's a great initiative. Looking forward to building one myself.
ReplyDeleteI built mine a week ago. It's almost perfect, but I have a problem with the IDE, I can not write data, the file system gets corrupted, I hope you're luckier than I am :). Hello everyone! It was my fault not to introduce myself.
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ReplyDeleteHave you tried reformatting that CF card on another machine and checking if it still does it?
Also, this sounds familiar. I think Steven may have had the same issue during development. You might want to skim through the build videos again. It seems like this was a problem he found and fixed. Maybe with a firmware update, maybe with a soldering glitch. Can't recall.
I will check videos again, i did format in another Amiga (a600) because connected to the TF it start (initizing disk) and never ends, and i can not copy folders to the CF either, but i can read, it is weird, i´m talking to Stephen, he is working in IDE issue in AtariST, maybe this could help :D
ReplyDeleteJuan Antonio Gil Castilla Yeah, I consider the IDE functionality to be alpha quality and just entering beta now that other people are bringing up boards to test and find issues.
ReplyDeleteAs I keep saying, this project is not for the impatient. It's open nature exposes it to the public at a much earlier stage than commercial projects and so it will require time to reach a release quality state.
Anyone participating now should not be in it for a cheap commercial quality accelerator, but for the fun and learning factor of tinkering with such a thing and participating in the process. The other group will get the reward of our blood sweat and tears down the road. That's how it works.
Personally I'm just enjoying the fun of tinkering with an Amiga again. Getting back into the hobby. relearning the Amiga hardware and being able to mod and upgrade it with my own hands.
Totally agree. I am not impatient, I think it's really amazing what Stephen is doing and I think pushing him would be a big mistake. I've talked to Stephen about IDE issue because can be helpful for me and for discover hide mistakes maybe :)
ReplyDeleteJuan Antonio Gil Castilla Yeah, I realized after I commented that maybe it sounded like I was talking to you. I wasn't. Your comments were just a good opportunity to remind others here of the situation. I know that most of the early adopters, especially the ones here in this particular Plus Community, have the right attitude about it. It great to see actually, it's how I'd hoped an Open vintage computer project would go. With people sharing info, discussing issues, reporting bugs, and generally working collaboratively on the project because they want to see it succeed and for the fun and challenge of it.
ReplyDeleteAdrian Garay I ordered my rev 3's the day he got them working but I ordered them with the cheapest, slow shipping option so I haven't got them yet. Which is fine given I have a batch of rev 2's to play with that appear to be working really well with the latest firmware. I simply haven't assembled one yet due to some annoying parts order delays.
ReplyDeleteThat and I'm still in the middle of getting a working A500 test machine up and running. Waiting on one final part for that.
Christopher Gaul No worries, I don't think you spoke about me. We need to know we are betatesters :). The speed and ram is working nice in my a500, only issue is ide :D
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