Workbench Replacements

[cdimauro]

@miker1264: yes, FPGA-based solutions have better chances to become drop-in replacements.

But PiStorm, since it's RPi-based, I still don't think so.

[jacko]

@miker1264: yes, FPGA-based solutions have better chances to become drop-in replacements.

But PiStorm, since it's RPi-based, I still don't think so.

And still, the PiStorm for A500 or A600 are drop in replacements for the 68000.

[cdimauro]

@miker1264: yes, FPGA-based solutions have better chances to become drop-in replacements.

But PiStorm, since it's RPi-based, I still don't think so.

And still, the PiStorm for A500 or A600 are drop in replacements for the 68000.

Not yet. As already report here, a few posts before:

PiStorm has already severe problems interfacing with the slow (in terms of operating frequencies) Chip Mem, so I don't think that a drop-in replacement for 68060 could be feasible, since it works at higher frequencies.

So, it's not able to fully replace even a simple 68000, due to that.

Let's talk once this issue is removed.

[miker1264]

The Raspberry Pi 3A+ arrived quickly but I'm not sure when the Pi Storm32 Lite adapter will arrive. In the meantime I'll just use WinUAE for Testing Amiga and AROS apps including Scalos and some others.

I'd like to start compiling and testing some small apps for Amiga OS 3.x. I believe IconSplit CLI that I wrote a few weeks ago should work. It uses all internal methods to split an Amiga Glow Icon into two ILBM images. And yes I will be testing FileMaster on Amiga. 

But in order to do the WinUAE testing I need to setup a new development PC. I'm probably going to use my new mini ITX core i5 PC but I'll need to buy a new mini ITX case. The Morex 557 case has AROS x86 in it already for AROS testing. It looks good on a 26" LCD TV. More room for editing / graphics.

I'd like to try adding a menu items to Wanderer as well for "File Manager" that uses the Wanderer Icon Tooltypes to load a text based file manager. It seems redundant but maybe worth a try to see how well or if it works. Of course adding a few updates for AROS MultiView would also be nice. The coding has been completed but I haven't submitted any official changes mostly because my Build System was outdated. It's a long story.

So much work = so much fun! 

[miker1264]

After a few days of sending messages Amigakit finally replied.

The Raspberry Pi 3A+ itself which I bought separately arrived in three days. The Pi Storm32 won't arrive for two more weeks.

But if you order a Pi Storm32 Lite from Amigakit expect a delay of up to 20 days from the date of purchase till it arrives. I suppose that's fast delivery in the Amiga world. 

I still need some time to set things up before I can start testing software. The new development PC using the mini ITX core i5 board needs to be setup too. Lots of work to do!

[miker1264]

  ::)After some searching for a new mini ITX case I decided to order a second Morex 557 case for my new development PC based on the mini ITX core i5 3.1Ghz main board that I have. It is identical to the case I use for my AROS testing machine which uses an Intel Atom board with AROS One x86 on a 60GB SSD. So I can put a sticker on the new case to distinguish the two PC's. I wish I had an AROS sticker for the AROS test PC.

After a recent accident with "caffeine OS" where I spilled coffee inside my Toshiba P775 laptop that I use for all my AROS programming I felt a second development PC was needed and full backups of all the source code which I luckily store on SD cards and flash drives so no problem with that. Luckily the laptop still works! But it's better to have a backup.

The Pi Storm32 adapter was shipped late last week by Royal Mail so I'm not sure when it will arrive to start assembling some AROS and Amiga test OS'es on my Amiga 1200. Maybe some AfA OS as well. 

[AMIGASYSTEM]

miker if you need any particular configuration, on any Amiga OS, just ask

[miker1264]

miker if you need any particular configuration, on any Amiga OS, just ask

Thank you. I may need a few things in a week or two.

But I have some hardware to assemble first.