And as usual with this hobby there is always a catch...
Well, I started by having to fit one of my 3.2 custom roms (inc the ehide driver) into the rom riser that is linked to the rom.expander to provide power (I assume).These roms are however fractionally larger and I had a mare trying to get the damn thing into the riser.
Managed to bend several legs and was sure I was going to snap one. However, after a lot of swearing I finally managed it, and the amiga boots again. Yay.
Thinking that I had completed the toughest part of this challenge I went to try and fit the clockport expander itself, only to find that it seems to foul on the cable end of my Indy mk2. D'oh. Anyway, Amigakit support have said they will do me a short cable to extend the clockport so that I can expand the clockport....
In the mean time, as I cannot take that forwards till I get the cable, I have sacrificed my rapid road usb to connect the rtc and temp sensor, and installed the software. It does what it says on the tin basically which is great. The display is a little bit basic but because it creates environment variables i have put it up in the workbench bar at the top of the screen. So, as in the pic, my workbench bar shows both chip and fast ram free, whether the amiga is online or not, what speed the tf1260 is set to, and the internal and cpu temperatures.
I think this is quite cool, but that's just me. I just need to get the expander fitted so I can get my usb ports working as well.
Incidentally, the sensor is getting 4.9v on the 5v line. Is this an issue or ok?
Well, I started by having to fit one of my 3.2 custom roms (inc the ehide driver) into the rom riser that is linked to the rom.expander to provide power (I assume).These roms are however fractionally larger and I had a mare trying to get the damn thing into the riser.
Managed to bend several legs and was sure I was going to snap one. However, after a lot of swearing I finally managed it, and the amiga boots again. Yay.
Thinking that I had completed the toughest part of this challenge I went to try and fit the clockport expander itself, only to find that it seems to foul on the cable end of my Indy mk2. D'oh. Anyway, Amigakit support have said they will do me a short cable to extend the clockport so that I can expand the clockport....
In the mean time, as I cannot take that forwards till I get the cable, I have sacrificed my rapid road usb to connect the rtc and temp sensor, and installed the software. It does what it says on the tin basically which is great. The display is a little bit basic but because it creates environment variables i have put it up in the workbench bar at the top of the screen. So, as in the pic, my workbench bar shows both chip and fast ram free, whether the amiga is online or not, what speed the tf1260 is set to, and the internal and cpu temperatures.
I think this is quite cool, but that's just me. I just need to get the expander fitted so I can get my usb ports working as well.
Incidentally, the sensor is getting 4.9v on the 5v line. Is this an issue or ok?
