@ChrisH

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ChrisH wrote: @Darth_X Do you really still use floppy disks?!? Sorry, I am just amazed at your comment, as I ditched floppy disks 5-10 years ago when I switched to Amithlon, and my latest PC (year or two old) doesn't even have a floppy drive (not have I ever missed it).

Surprisingly I have quite a few USB sticks.. and my last few PCs have not had floppy drives.

But I still have quite a lot of software on floppy disks that I would like to recover if possible.

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@ChrisH

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Do you really still use floppy disks?!?

I have a situation where nothing but a floppy will work. I have a WindowsXP Pro SP2 install CD for my laptop. My laptop has a SATA hard drive. The Windows SP2 install cd does not have a driver for my SATA chip, so I have to load an extra driver for it before the installer will see my hard drive. The ONLY way to load an extra driver is via floppy drive. USB stick is not supported for this task. CD is not supported for this task. I had to go searching for a USB floppy drive last time I had to reinstall Windows so I could possibly do so.

OK, so that's not a common usage. But I cannot reinstall Windows without a floppy drive. I think it's absurd that MS doesn't allow a USB stick to serve this task. Considering how hard it is to find a floppy drive these days, I was rather annoyed.

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@Akiko

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Akiko wrote: Something like minimig possible?

It's not possible (was discussed on a.org already).

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@ChrisH

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ChrisH wrote: @OldAmigan While that is a great idea in principle, you still have the problem of emulating a 68k, not to mention integrating the hardware & software together (a big project IMHO).

The cpu could easily be emulated using software afaik. Wont be as perfect as minimig emulation, but it would definitely be a improvement over emulating everything in software.

@thread

FINALLY I got my SAM440EP !


It has FPGA expansion / I/O connector in place.

(someone said that the connector would be missing)


The board is revision C, RAM is on Dimm and the board is beutifull, etc...

I expect it to take some days before I boot it up. (in the meanwhile I need to do some backups of the HDD or get a 2.5" SATA HDD etc...

Also AOS4.1 package&manuals&CD are very professional looking.

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@KimmoK

Congratulations !

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@KimmoK

Congratulations!

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The board is revision C

Good to hear that there are some progress

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@ChrisH

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I would have thought that it should be *possible* to have a fake WHDLoad for OS4 which was actually a script which started UAE & ran WHDLoad in that... **Might** look into that if I ever get UAE installed on OS4.

Try glUAE.

@Zylesea

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Zylesea wrote: @Akiko Quote: Akiko wrote: Something like minimig possible? It's not possible (was discussed on a.org already).

Any chance of a link?

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@KimmoK

It was me who think his board is missing the connector.

This sam440ep looks the same as mine so can you tell me if I am right about it having the connector missing? http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/1227/img2988eq9.jpg

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@Dwyloc

Ok, that board does not have the FPGA extension / I/O connector. :)

And ACube web page says the technical specs are:
# MiniITX Form Factor (17x17 cm)
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# FPGA Lattice XP with 80 pin I/O expansion connector
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(just verified it from the web page)

So. IMO: ACube should arrange the FPGA connector to those that need it or compensate the missing connector somehow.

(sure, currently no-one needs it untill FPGA dev kit is available for SAM owners)

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@KimmoK

My SAM hasn't got a FPGA connector, I am not sure I am happy about this.

As I said

Here

post number 52.

What if someone comes up with a cool expansion for my SAM and I haven't got a FPGA connector?

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@TheDaddy

"What if someone comes up with a cool expansion for my SAM and I haven't got a FPGA connector?"

Then you "kindly" call ACube, etc...

IF the FPGA is USELESS somehow , then the connector is useless. I hope the FPGA is not just sitting there doing nothing "forever". (AmigaInc does that and it's not nice)


It is not ok to first sell something and then deliver something else.

I hope there will be decent clarification at some point.


(A1 defects come in to my mind, no-sound, buggyDMA, still boards were sold with AC97 sound ... ... ... )

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@KimmoK

>>Then you "kindly" call ACube, etc...

I am kind of disappointed as in this case the SAM should have cost less, but I do trust ACube and I manage to get in contact with them...sometimes

>>IF the FPGA is USELESS somehow , then the connector is useless. I hope the FPGA is not just sitting there doing nothing "forever". (AmigaInc does that and it's not nice)

I am just thinking that if an expansion using the FPGA comes out then I am screwed?!

>>It is not ok to first sell something and then deliver something else.
I hope there will be decent clarification at some point.

I hope so.

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@TheDaddy

As there seems to be those holes drilled for the FPGA connector, It should not be impossible to get the connector soldered afterwards. (the silver lining of the cloud)

In the crazy Amiga world, it might be possible that there is something weird/geeky in every open pinhole of the SAM. (I hope that happens because it can be done, not because we have to do it because the lack of new HW)

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@ChrisH

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ChrisH wrote: @Gleng I would have thought that it should be *possible* to have a fake WHDLoad for OS4 which was actually a script which started UAE & ran WHDLoad in that... **Might** look into that if I ever get UAE installed on OS4.

I have done that already:

http://OS4Depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=emulation/utility/whdload-to-uae.lha

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Rob wrote: @ChrisH Quote: I would have thought that it should be *possible* to have a fake WHDLoad for OS4 which was actually a script which started UAE & ran WHDLoad in that... **Might** look into that if I ever get UAE installed on OS4. Try glUAE.

or use "RunADF"

http://OS4Depot.net/index.php?function=comments&file=emulation/utility/runadf.lha

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If I one day start playing with FPGA programming etc., I would start by building a RAM controller on a FPGA. I have not ran out of memory on SAM yet, but the day comes... When it happens, it would be nice if the SWAP partition would be on a physical RAM memory.

Also, bootable RAD drive would also be nice on a separate memory.

I think there are RAM controllers freely available, to be programmed on FPGAs.

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I asked for ideas for SAM's FPGA over at Amiga.org

Here's the link:


SAM FPGA thread linky.

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