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Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 11:11:04
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| A while ago I wrote some code that accesses the Amiga CD32 NVRAM directly. Unfortunately, I don't have an Amiga CD32 and UAE, in this case, doesn't make for a good reference: in fact, the code worked right away on UAE, but it never worked on a real machine. Until now, a friend made lots of tests, but I caught him in a very busy period and, moreover, running tests is a huge hassle to him. I don't want to bother him anymore, so I need an Amiga CD 32 owner who can easily trasfer files from/to the machine (i.e. without burning CDs or plugging/unplugging expansion hardware) and run tests for me. The tests consist in small programs (under 2 kB) which run for a couple of seconds and output text and/or dump files to RAM:. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance. Last edited by saimo on 06-Apr-2020 at 11:11 AM.
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 13:29:11
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Your request seems rather difficult since the only way to run code is either to burn a bootable CD-R or use an expansion device to boot into from floppy or HDD.
I have an SX-1 but I don't think my HDD is good anymore and my PSU is missing... Last edited by Lou on 06-Apr-2020 at 01:30 PM.
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 13:48:36
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Nowdays it's easy to get expansions for the cd32 with ide-ports at a low price so i have no doubts that there is people out there capable of helping saimo :)
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 13:53:49
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Hmmm, now I see that my wording can be easily misunderstood: I didn't mean to exclude expansion hardware, just that the solution of unplugging and re-plugging expansion hardware isn't ideal (that's what my friend has been doing, and I don't want him to go through that anymore, not to mention that I don't want to cause more connector wear). _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 15:41:09
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CD32 with a TF330 and a CD32 with FMV here. sent you a pm
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My CF2IDE is on a long cable outside my CD32 so its easy for me to remove the CFCard and mount it eslewhere to get files on and off. Last edited by JurassicC on 06-Apr-2020 at 03:45 PM.
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 15:51:11
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Cool, thanks! _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 6-Apr-2020 22:18:09
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I have received help offers from three persons, so, for the moment being, don't bother answering ;) Should I need further help, I'll let you know. _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 20-Jan-2025 11:26:56
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| This remained frozen for a few years. Eventually, I managed to get the code to work on a real Amiga CD³². Now, before I release it officially (and before releasing an updated version of SkillGrid which makes use of it), I'd like to have it tested on more machines, so if anyone around here has an Amiga CD³² with a writable drive (required to save a backup for recovery from disaster), I'd be glad if they could make a test and let me know the result. All that's needed is to download this package, put it on the drive and run a script - here is a video that shows what happens. _________________ RETREAM - retro dreams for Amiga, Commodore 64 and PC |
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 25-Jan-2025 21:18:47
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| I just got a confirmation from another person that the code works fine on his machine equipped with a TF328. Given the care poured into this, the amount of tests performed and the positive response from different machines, I consider the code fully working. Therefore, I have released the code in a package that contains also a command line tool to read/write arbitrary chunks of the NVRAM. It can be downloaded freely from https://retream.itch.io/amiga-tools. Last edited by saimo on 25-Jan-2025 at 09:19 PM.
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Re: Looking for a tester with an Amiga CD32 Posted on 27-Jan-2025 23:07:26
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