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André Jernung
Sweden
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Posts 988
12 Mar 2011 19:59
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VGA out...working.
Does it mean you actually can boot system and see something?!
That's great.
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Thomas has decided to verify the functionality of all components on the board before starting to work with the main Natami FPGA load again. Therefore, this means that he has gotten working screen output, not that the old core from the LX board has been loaded and booted to Workbench (even though it would be possible to do it). Currently he is working on PCI.
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
12 Mar 2011 21:29
| André Jernung wrote:
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Wojtek P wrote:
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VGA out...working.
Does it mean you actually can boot system and see something?!
That's great.
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Thomas has decided to verify the functionality of all components on the board before starting to work with the main Natami FPGA load again. Therefore, this means that he has gotten working screen output, not that the old core from the LX board has been loaded and booted to Workbench (even though it would be possible to do it).
Currently he is working on PCI.
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Thanks for precise answer
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Niclas Aronsson
Sweden
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Posts 57
19 Mar 2011 17:09
| Are all these different tasks to be completed first before you go on and bring over the rest of the code from the LX board?
So for the MX board this is the current feature list: VGA out ................... working
DVI out ................... o
PCI ....................... transfer only, arbiter and config missing
IDE ....................... PIO mode 0 working
Compact Flash connector ... o
NEC USB PCI ............... o
RTL 8110 LAN .............. o
(new) Battery-backed up clock.... working
15k Video out (module) .... o
15k Video in (module) ..... o
Audio in .................. o
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
19 Mar 2011 17:18
| I assumed that, for what it is worth. Also, in my humble opinion, except maybe for audio and 15kHz video, there is not much point in trying to skip anything.
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Thomas Hirsch
Germany
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Posts 647
19 Mar 2011 21:08
| Now I got the LX chipset also working on the MX board. This means two things: The system is complete now. The next steps will be to continue to get a basic running system which will work for the development boards. Then, while several people can use and test the system the design gets further optimized.
The current feature list:
Chipset Features
Frame generation .......... ECS, fixed 28MHz pixel clock
SyncZorro Interface ....... preliminary version
Copper .................... fully implemented, with buffered data fetch
Video DMA ................. fully implemented
256 color registers ....... fully implemented
Sprites ................... 16bit linebuffer
blitter ................... basic implementation. Block and fill mode only, line to come
Video priority ............ half implemented
Scandoubler ............... fully implemented
Interrupts ................ fully implemented
Paula DMA control ......... fully implemented
Audio out ................. fully implemented
Disk DMA .................. 880k and 1760k, read only
Serial Port Paula UART .... fully implemented
Slow peripheral I/O ....... fully implemented
(Joy/Mouse/Keyb/PRT/DSK/SER)
PC mouse and kbd support .. o
CIAs ...................... fully implemented
Board Features
VGA out ................... working
DVI out ................... o
PCI ....................... transfer only, arbiter and config missing
IDE ....................... PIO mode 0 working
Compact Flash connector ... o
NEC USB PCI ............... o
RTL 8110 LAN .............. o
Battery-backed up clock.... working
15k Video out (module) .... o
15k Video in (module) ..... o
Audio in .................. o
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SID Hervé
France
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Posts 663
19 Mar 2011 21:36
| Thank you for the new.
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Guillaume Michalakakos
France
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Posts 454
19 Mar 2011 22:21
| Very nice Thomas ! Congratulations ! :-)
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Istvan Szekeres
Hungary
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Posts 60
19 Mar 2011 23:24
| Good news. I like floppys.
I hope will work it fully... :-) Thank you Thomas.
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Evil Igel
Germany
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Posts 154
20 Mar 2011 04:32
| "geil" :-)
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3979
20 Mar 2011 05:12
| cool
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Lord Aga
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Posts 129
20 Mar 2011 09:22
| Superb :)
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Ed Dream
Russia
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Posts 28
20 Mar 2011 13:23
| Keep it up!
I can not wait when I can buy devboard.
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Louis Dias
USA
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Posts 217
20 Mar 2011 21:41
| Time for a video?
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Jakob Eriksson
Sweden
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Posts 1097
21 Mar 2011 06:59
| A video will be shot in April.
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Andi Friede
Germany
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Posts 24
21 Mar 2011 08:17
| @Thomas: Great !!!!! Keep going - this is wonderful! Good luck for the rest.
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Przemek Tkaczyk
Poland
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Posts 54
21 Mar 2011 09:30
| Thank you for the update, Thomas. I can't wait to see more news like this =) Hopefully the showcase video will come soon, too :) You guys are my heroes, honestly. I would like to support your effort somehow, but really don't know how could I contribute :) Anyway, keep up the good work and good luck with further tests!
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Rune Stensland
Norway
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Posts 871
21 Mar 2011 17:30
| Very good work! Don't worry about the speed Thomas. PC coders buy new hardware, Amiga coders Optimize :D
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Ivan Sorensen
USA
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Posts 11
04 Apr 2011 00:48
| It is hard to fully articulate how amazing this project is.
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Anton Antsnark
Russia
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Posts 143
04 Apr 2011 20:12
| Ivan Sorensen wrote:
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It is hard to fully articulate how amazing this project is.
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it is simple, but only in very rude russian words ^_^the progress is really amazing!
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
06 Apr 2011 13:46
| Thomas Hirsch wrote:
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Now I got the LX chipset also working on the MX board. This means two things: The system is complete now. The next steps will be to continue to get a basic running system which will work for the development boards. Then, while several people can use and test the system the design gets further optimized.
The current feature list:
Chipset Features
Frame generation .......... ECS, fixed 28MHz pixel clock
SyncZorro Interface ....... preliminary version
Copper .................... fully implemented, with buffered data fetch
Video DMA ................. fully implemented
256 color registers ....... fully implemented
Sprites ................... 16bit linebuffer
blitter ................... basic implementation. Block and fill mode only, line to come
Video priority ............ half implemented
Scandoubler ............... fully implemented
Interrupts ................ fully implemented
Paula DMA control ......... fully implemented
Audio out ................. fully implemented
Disk DMA .................. 880k and 1760k, read only
Serial Port Paula UART .... fully implemented
Slow peripheral I/O ....... fully implemented
(Joy/Mouse/Keyb/PRT/DSK/SER)
PC mouse and kbd support .. o
CIAs ...................... fully implemented
Board Features
VGA out ................... working
DVI out ................... o
PCI ....................... transfer only, arbiter and config missing
IDE ....................... PIO mode 0 working
Compact Flash connector ... o
NEC USB PCI ............... o
RTL 8110 LAN .............. o
Battery-backed up clock.... working
15k Video out (module) .... o
15k Video in (module) ..... o
Audio in .................. o
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Great news. floppy write is IMHO really lowest priority. For everything else you will for sure need no more than half a year, so Natami will be ready before end of the world ;)Thanks again for GOOD news.
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