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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!

Here’s an excerpt:

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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Tiny update for Java developer's

On the JAmiga support forum on amigans.net I've added a little note on a developer's package available on AmiUpdate:

For those of you who might not get the significance, workbench loads a number of libraries into the extended fast memory on bootup.  As you can see in this image below, more fast memory is actually being used than the chip, onboard memory immediately after bootup.

RTC appears to be working and keeping the date and time across cold-starts.

I picked the Epson RTC-72423 which is about a $6 chip, but is obviously directly compatible with the OKI Semiconductor MSM6242B.  The design, including the battery supervisor, had never been tested — not even as a prototype… and appears to have worked the first time!

I needed to do a “setclock reset”, set the date via “Date 28-Dec-13 02:26:00″ command, and then did a “setclock save”  Subsequent setclock loads brings it back!