Amiga internet with PLIPBOX
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Actually I don't have the parts handy as it turns out my Arduino's that I have spare are Pro Mini 5v's.
Will be very interested how it turns out then
I will ultimately have two Amigas here - one will have PCMCIA and will therefore be sorted for networking, the other won't though as it's a GBA1000 so this would be pretty useful.
Will be very interested how it turns out then
I will ultimately have two Amigas here - one will have PCMCIA and will therefore be sorted for networking, the other won't though as it's a GBA1000 so this would be pretty useful.
There's a new version of the driver - 0.6
http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/
http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/
It took quite a while to finish the release (over a year
Get your copy of plipbox 0.6 on the plibbox homepage!
- A new parallel burst transfer mode was added that really improves the I/O speed on this Amiga port. You will get up to 235 KiB/s across the lines!
- Added new test modes for performance measurement on Ethernet Port, parallel port and on Amiga side (device loop back, SANA-II API loop back, and TCP/IP stack look back via UDP round trips)
- Cleaned up firmware and driver code and rewrote firmware to handle full Ethernet frame in SRAM (2 KiB that is for both firmware and 1518 Bytes packet)
Here are some performance numbers:
- Amiga 500 + ACA500:
- Parallel Transfer: 175.39 rx/201.11 tx KB/s
- Ethernet Transfer: 314.27 KB/s
- Bridge (Internal Device Loopback): 102.65 KB/s
- Bridge (SANA-II API Loopback): 92.88 KB/s
- Bridge (TCP/IP stack Loopback): 71.81 KB/s
- Amiga 500 + ACA500 + ACA1230/33
- Parallel Transfer: 234.36 rx/234.80 tx KB/s
- Ethernet Transfer: 314.05 KB/s
- Bridge (Internal Device Loopback): 127.27 KB/s
- Bridge (SANA-II API Loopback): 123.68 KB/s
- Bridge (TCP/IP stack Loopback): 114.38 KB/s
I have everything apart from the correct wires. Typical as always every single wire I have is the pin-type lol.
The big question I have is this! Can I take 5v from the floppy port to power this thing? or is it better to stick with a mobile-phone charger adaptor for that?
If I can safely take 5volts from the Amiga itself, then I wont need another power socket and it keeps it all neat.
The big question I have is this! Can I take 5v from the floppy port to power this thing? or is it better to stick with a mobile-phone charger adaptor for that?
If I can safely take 5volts from the Amiga itself, then I wont need another power socket and it keeps it all neat.
That took me about 20 minutes of reading this thread and Lallafa's article on the Plipbox ... parts have been ordered, now all I have to do is be patient and wait for the delivery, while I wait I'll finish the Raspberry Pi floppy interface for my Amiga 4000.
Cheers
Glenn
Cheers
Glenn
If people are interested I can arrange a group buy of the components. I have a quote for the little PCB board from 30 USD for a quantity of 10 to 5 USD for an order of 100 (blue color, to match my GBA 1000 mobo... lol).
The rest of the components are about 30 USD, excluding a power supply (or including one if I can find a cheap on on eBay or Amazon). This is to build the compact version here :
The rest of the components are about 30 USD, excluding a power supply (or including one if I can find a cheap on on eBay or Amazon). This is to build the compact version here :
Great Idea! I'm interested and very excited about this, just let me/us know in detail (also in PM) how to proceed. Thank you Rakeim ;-)
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Got a very interesting quote from China for the PCB (same supplier than Tuxbar81 for his extension boards for GBA1000). Therefore I would like to design the second layer on this PCB to get rid of the 4 wires to be welded on the board. Since I'm a total newbie I need to understand how to use Eagle CAD software to do this... Might take longer than expected. I'll open a group sales thread when I'll be ready (someone might be faster than me!).
I want both 
