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Amiga 1000 + Firebird With Different OS

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
27 Oct 2021 16:22



 

 

 

 




David Wright

Posts 373
28 Oct 2021 01:46


Having tried my V2 in the A1000, I see no reason to continue. With only 512k of chipram much is unusable or difficult.

Amiga Love is working on a retool of the Rejuvenator board which expands chip ram in the 1000. Very promising.


Eric Gus

Posts 477
28 Oct 2021 06:25


David Wright wrote:

  Having tried my V2 in the A1000, I see no reason to continue. With only 512k of chipram much is unusable or difficult.
 
  Amiga Love is working on a retool of the Rejuvenator board which expands chip ram in the 1000. Very promising.
 

 
  If I am not mistaken, the AGA core for the V4 Firebird will finally fix that limitation along with providing AGA and ECS capabilities to your A1000 .. you should likely end up with 12MB chip like the V4SA has .. a tad more than the rejuvenator can ever provide..


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
28 Oct 2021 07:27


eric gus wrote:

If I am not mistaken, the AGA core for the V4 Firebird will finally fix that limitation along with providing AGA and ECS capabilities to your A1000 .. you should likely end up with 12MB chip like the V4SA has .. a tad more than the rejuvenator can ever provide..

Yes this is correct. With the Firebird you have the option to enable AGA and 12 MB chipmem.
Per default the Firebird will operate as normal Accelerator giving you  500 MB fastmem and RTG, Ethernet and USB and FastIDE. But you can enable the new AGA mode.


Dawid 1983

Posts 29
28 Oct 2021 09:17


This is awsome  nice done ;)


David Wright

Posts 373
28 Oct 2021 20:48


So if I get this I can finally have that Ide channel for a cd-rom?



Richard Statham

Posts 49
28 Oct 2021 21:04


Thats a long ide cable why does V4SA not like long ide cables



Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
28 Oct 2021 21:10


Richard Statham wrote:

Thats a long ide cable why does V4SA not like long ide cables

   
As longer the cable, as more problems you get on FastIDE modes.
The IDE-Spec does clearly recommend you to use shorter cables with CF and faster ID modes.
This is not a problem of the V4SA, this is just physics.
 
 


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
02 Nov 2021 10:31


Excellent that the ChipRAM can be expanded. I think I found use for a Firebird in my A1000.

Manfred


Marco Bruines

Posts 31
02 Nov 2021 18:30


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

  Yes this is correct. With the Firebird you have the option to enable AGA and 12 MB chipmem.
  Per default the Firebird will operate as normal Accelerator giving you  500 MB fastmem and RTG, Ethernet and USB and FastIDE. But you can enable the new AGA mode.

Tomorrow the postman wil bring me my Firebird ;) So last days i spend getting as much information as possible, already prepared an CF too
But one thing i dont get clear, will the AGA setting be rememberd after a cold boot?



Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
25 Nov 2021 16:56


Hi.

How is this switch to AGA mode being done?


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
26 Nov 2021 08:40


Manfred Bergmann wrote:

Hi.
 
  How is this switch to AGA mode being done?

I mean, is there a switch in VControl? Or is it a separate core?

Manfred


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
26 Nov 2021 08:42


Manfred Bergmann wrote:

Or is it a separate core?

It is one core.
You have in the core some soft switches.
But setting them should be done before loading the Kickstart, so that the Kickstart identifies the system correctly.

I think a good solution will be to store these settings in non volatile memory and to apply them on poweron.


Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
26 Nov 2021 12:35


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

Manfred Bergmann wrote:

  Or is it a separate core?
 

 
  It is one core.
  You have in the core some soft switches.
  But setting them should be done before loading the Kickstart, so that the Kickstart identifies the system correctly.
 
  I think a good solution will be to store these settings in non volatile memory and to apply them on poweron.

OK. I'm unclear how to change this setting at all right now. Is there some documentation?




Manfred Bergmann

Posts 226
26 Nov 2021 14:22


Manfred Bergmann wrote:

 
Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

 
Manfred Bergmann wrote:

    Or is it a separate core?
   

   
    It is one core.
    You have in the core some soft switches.
    But setting them should be done before loading the Kickstart, so that the Kickstart identifies the system correctly.
   
    I think a good solution will be to store these settings in non volatile memory and to apply them on poweron.
 

 
  OK. I'm unclear how to change this setting at all right now. Is there some documentation?
 

 
  Reading the brieflet included with the Firebird it says there is a special AGA core. I'd assume this is obsolete from what you say.
  But on apollo-computer.com in the download section I find an AGA core.
  So I'm a bit confused.

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