For Sale A500 IDE adapters, PS/2 mouse adapter, A600 CF adapter

[abraXXious]

Hi there,

mouse adapters arrived and work very well. Quite impressed. Smooth movement, no lag - very nice indeed.

Just a quick question though, is it possible to get teh mouse wheel working? Using Free Wheel I have managed to get the third mouse button working (third mouse button is activated by pressing the mouse wheel in), but no matter what I do I cannot seem to get the mouse wheel to scroll.

Is it possible? If so, please tell me/us which software to use.

Thanks again.

 

[mkl]

Hi there,
Just a quick question though, is it possible to get teh mouse wheel working?

Hi. To get mouse wheel working requires some signals connected to the second joystick port from the PIC microcontroller pins. (soldering is needed, because this printed circuit board does not have a connector for these signals)
Original PS2M mouse adapter project documentation can be found at http://aminet.net

WWW page for this printed circuit board: http://iki.fi/mkl/ps2mhiiri627/

 

[rkauer]

Any change to make the CF adaptor vertical to solve the problem on A1000?

 

[mkl]

Any change to make the CF adaptor vertical to solve the problem on A1000?

Practically no chance because the cf connector pins will probably break if trying to bend 90 degreer.
Straight pin hea.der for cf can't be used either because of the smd pad pattern in v296

 

[rkauer]

So, only doing a small re-design on the v296?

I know you'll get too many versions, but I think the A1000 based systems can justify the making of a batch. Maybe we need a interest thread in the same shape as Tomthul made about the A1000 internal RAM.

 

[abraXXious]

I would buy one for the A1000.... does that count?

 

[mkl]

small update: I will try to get some v296 boards tested and completed by tomorrow.

 

[mkl]

So, only doing a small re-design on the v296?

Maybe so.
I don't know how much space there is 'behind' the CPU in that area in A1000.

 

[mkl]

Some cfide68k v296 boards will be completed soon. A couple are assembled but not yet tested.

This board might not fit in every (edit: 'any' corrected to 'every') 68000 Amiga:
a) REV 5 A500 mainboard requires "riser" socket for the adapter to clear the KS-ROM. Also the three 3-pin emi filter components behind the CPU can conflict with the CF-connector
b) Some Amiga 2000 mainboards require riser to clear the PLCC chip behind the CPU
c) Adapter with CF-connector will not clear the floppy drive in A1000.
d) other cases which may exist

I can include free DIP-64 sockets (risers) in the shipment with the adapters.

Please consider these options:

With or without CF-connector? (Get 5 euros discount without)

Type of IDE-connector. A) "Boxed" header or pin header without guiding walls. It can improve changes of being able to put something in the clockport header when the IDE-header doesn't have walls. (The clockport header is a little bit too close to IDE connector.) B) straight or right-angle IDE connector? A SIP pull-up resistor network (4.7kohm) for the other half of IDE data bus will be soldered when straight header is used.

 

[craggus2000]

14-september: Updates posted as a reply.

CFIDE68K V296
Information about these home made IDE interfaces (I'll take photos for V296 later)
Summary: Plugs to 68K socket, one "40-pin" IDE connector and one compactflash connector. Autoboots using A600's KS-ROM with driver for A600's ide interface (40.063/37.350/37.300) User needs to connect two wires to Amiga mainboard. Note: should fit in stock REV6 mainboard A500, REV5 need riser socket to clear ksrom and other components.

Price for the board is 65 euros. Shipping 7 euros worldwide registered mail.
It has the CF-connector, so it will not fit inside A1000, or A500 with Indivision display adapter
Also some boards without the CF-connector installed, price 60 + shipping.
Optional 68HC000 DIP-64 CPU for +5 euros.

Hi,

Would this enable an A500+ to boot from an IDE device? I have a 2.05 (37.350) kickstart.

Many thanks

 

[chiark]

Yes, yes it would.

 

[beholder242]

Was a 2.05 KS ROM released for the A500, or is it safe to use an A600 2.05 KS ROM in a A500?

I suppose the safest route is to just get a 3.1 Kickstart.

Would this device conflict with any Kickstart ROM switchers in an A500?

What would happen if I tried booting an A500 with a stock KS 1.3 and one of these devices installed? Would the system just ignore it, or throw errors at boot?

 

[alexh]

Was a 2.05 KS ROM released for the A500

No

is it safe to use an A600 2.05 KS ROM in a A500?

Safe.

I suppose the safest route is to just get a 3.1 Kickstart.

Or make your own including KS1.3+IDE & switcher using nothing more than a 27C800 EPROM three wires + a switch.

Would this device conflict with any Kickstart ROM switchers in an A500?

Nope.

What would happen if I tried booting an A500 with a stock KS 1.3 and one of these devices installed?

Nothing. You'd just get the normal hand asking you to insert a floppy disk.

 

[craggus2000]

Yes, yes it would.

Would I need anything extra to enable the booting of workbench from the ide device (apart from the workbench disks to install it of course).

What would happen if I tried booting an A500 with a stock KS 1.3 and one of these devices installed? Would the system just ignore it, or throw errors at boot?

Would WB1.3 see the ide device (hdd/cf) after booting it from floppy?

Is there anywhere that sells KS1.3+IDE pre made chips? Anyone here willing to do one for me? My knowledge of programming chips is very lacking...

 

[alexh]

Would WB1.3 see the ide device (hdd/cf) after booting it from floppy?

A stock WB1.3 floppy disk? Nope.

If you put the appropriate scsi.device on the floppy disk and added the correct binddrivers command to your startup script & set mountlists correctly. Then maybe.

Is there anywhere that sells KS1.3+IDE pre made chips?

Nope, that would be illegal. If you made your own FILE then you could use one of the EPROM sellers who will pre-program them for you.

http://www2.gup.jku.at/~tkoeck/kick1.3_scsi.device_patch/

 

[chiark]

+1 to what alexh said. He knows his onions

 

[rkauer]

Actually, there is a way to boot from 1.3 using the SCSI.device from 2.05 (or even 3.1, for that matter).

Search on Aminet for "grab SCSI", it is a little program that catch the SCSI.device from the 2.x/3.1 ROM and save it to a file.

Now all you have to do is save the file on a OFS disk and binddrive the archive on a boot floppy for 1.3. Remember you need to create a mountlist for each partition you want available for 1.3!

 

[Tumo007]

Could I buy only the PCB for the CFIDE68K ? Or has a kit (solder it yourself)?

Thanks

 

[rkauer]

Mika himself can reply about this, but I'm pretty sure he sells the boards & parts as a kit, too.

 

[craggus2000]

Mika himself can reply about this, but I'm pretty sure he sells the boards & parts as a kit, too.

Anyone know how to get hold of him? Whilst I don't think the worst I paid him for an cfide68k adapter last week and haven't heard anything yet, and have sent a couple of PM's on here...

thanks