Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Ian Burkinshaw
Hi Dave Sounds interesting, I would be interested in a write up and schematic. Could be a good basis for QL based controller/computer. Sort of like Raspberry Pi but without the Linux.. Just build what you need for a given application. As you say nifty. Ian Burkinshaw - Original Message

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Dave Park
I shall do it, eventually. Meanwhile, I am very interested in the 68020 adapted Thors. Does anyone on-list have one? Mine's a Thor XVI (with video issues, but that's another thread) so it just has a 68000@8MHz, though I am working on an upgrade for that, too :) Dave On 3/9/13, Ian Burkinshaw

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread John Alexander
Is that 14MHZ or the 2x7.5 MHZ of the original ? I had the 68020 working well at that and double again...i.e. Synchronous The length of the 68K bus been dragged out of the DIN connector at the end  is getting to be a issue especially as a wire wrap. I personally don't think any of your code is

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Dave wrote: Meanwhile, I am very interested in the 68020 adapted Thors. Does anyone on-list have one? Mine's a Thor XVI (with video issues, but that's another thread) so it just has a 68000@8MHz, though I am working on an upgrade for that, too :) I own several CST Thor's including a Thor 21

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Dave Park
That's 14 MHz. I can't get it to boot at all at 15MHz. I found it would boot well at some frequencies but crash, or not boot at all at others. I haven't tried the native 24/25MHz yet. I don't have a 68881 to fiddle with, but if I did QDOS wouldn't make any use of it would it? Dave On Sat, Mar

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Dave Park
Hi :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Urs Koenig (QL) q...@bluewin.ch wrote: Dave wrote: Meanwhile, I am very interested in the 68020 adapted Thors. Does anyone on-list have one? Mine's a Thor XVI (with video issues, but that's another thread) so it just has a 68000@8MHz, though I am

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Francois Lanciault
A stupid idea just came up to me. Knowing that it is difficult for various reasons to make a 680X0 board as fast or faster than the GoldCard, would it be possible to... make an accelerator board for the GoldCard itself ? (Or SGC for that matter). Some kind of daughter board that would fit in

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Francois Lanciault wrote: A stupid idea just came up to me. Knowing that it is difficult for various reasons to make a 680X0 board as fast or faster than the GoldCard, would it be possible to... make an accelerator board for the GoldCard itself ? (Or SGC for that

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Francois Lanciault
Ok then what about the GoldCard ? The 68000 is socketed I believe. F. On 2013-03-09, at 18:32, Tony Firshman wrote: On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Francois Lanciault wrote: A stupid idea just came up to me. Knowing that it is difficult for various reasons to make a 680X0 board as fast or

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Dave Park
The Gold Card and Super Gold Card are quite different in this respect. The custom logic on the GC and SCG that I have are both Altera chips that max out at 50MHz, which gives a top CPU speed of 25 MHz. However, the SGC clocks the CPU at 24MHz, probably because that frequency allows faster memory

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: The Gold Card and Super Gold Card are quite different in this respect. The custom logic on the GC and SCG that I have are both Altera chips that max out at 50MHz, which gives a top CPU speed of 25 MHz. However, the SGC clocks the CPU at 24MHz,

Re: [Ql-Users] [QL-Users] Something I have been playing with...

2013-03-09 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.ukjavascript:; wrote: On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Dave Park wrote: The Gold Card and Super Gold Card are quite different in this respect. The custom logic on the GC and SCG