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So I think the Amiga 500 I was testing with has problems.  I’m not sure precisely what or why but

Today, I dropped my new A501 replacement card into a known-working Commodore Amiga 500.  It fired up immediately no issues with booting, everything worked, no wonkiness, memory tests passed 100%.  This amiga has an accelerator card, and I was able to run 300 tests of pretty much the entire memory space on the card in about 5 minutes.  Everything worked without error.

I’d like to get more data points here before I call it DONE, but it looks GREAT to me!

While I had my logic analyzer connected to my memory card tonight, I noticed that I no longer had the white screen hang on bootup problem that I’ve been plagued with since this card came in.

As a matter of fact, it was booting up about 100% of the time.

I disconnected my HP logic analyzer probes, and all of a sudden, the Amiga won’t boot any longer.

It seems as if the impedance loading of the probes have been POSITIVELY affecting my circuit….slowing down the rise times and fixing whatever issue was in place.

Τι θα ήθελα μέσα στο 2014, πέρα απο υγεία, αγάπη κτλ κτλ:

- να πάρω το πτυχίο απο το ΕΑΠ. Είμαι πολύ κοντά, λίγο ακόμη αίμα και φτάσαμε.

- ένα ακόμη μέλος στην οικογένεια

- μειον 5 ακομη κιλά. Έχασα 8 δεν θα σταματήσω τώρα.

- να βρίσκω χρόνο να πηγαίνω για τρέξιμο κάθε μέρα. Ότι καλύτερο.

- να ασχοληθώ με Android.

- να αγοράσω Raspberry Pi.

- να ξαναγυρίσω πάλι πίσω στο linux.

....

So I’ve written some assembly in the monitor software I’ve been using, and I’ve just created a large loop to see if I can get the card to fail.

I’m still having plenty of problems on bootup, but everything else is checking on.  So I’m not sure what the cause is, but I’m double checking that the memory system is reliable over a large number of reads/writes.

Well I guess many Amiga enthusiasts already know about Majsta and his first worldwide FPGA accelerator for the Amiga 600 called "Vampire 600".

From reports on the support forum on amigans.net, JosDuchIt reported some troubles installing and running JAmiga. The culprit was an innocent space in the name of the driver where JAmiga was installed.

Just quickly: the MorphOS build of the first Beta is available from SourceForge:

Thanks to Thunder for the MorphOS build!

First of all...I wish all of you a really happy new year!!! Lets hope 2014 will be a lot better than 2013 in every aspect.

Hi there,

Hi everyone,

I wish you all a happy new year! Hope 2014 will be a great year for you all. Thanks for visiting my blog and stay tuned for more posts in 2014.

Cheers!

First of all:

As we come to the end of another year in Amigaland it's a time to reflect on the past 12 months and look forward to what the new year will bring.

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