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A board with Atari SOUL!!!! (ROM in block ram support)

Feature #24: A board with Atari SOUL!!!! (ROM in block ram support)

Added by sadosp over 8 years ago. Updated over 7 years ago.

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Closed
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High
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Start date:
05/31/2017
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What I would like to see from Mark sometime in the future, is to integrate the Atari OS in the flash ram.
Dream for the day who I will push the power switch, and I will see the "Basic" blue screen, without the need of SD card.
A board with Atari SOUL!!!!

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Related to Feature #37: SD card insertion supportClosed06/03/2017

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FO Updated by foft over 8 years ago Actions
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  • Priority changed from Normal to High

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  • Subject changed from A board with Atari SOUL!!!! to A board with Atari SOUL!!!! (ROM in block ram support)

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sadosp wrote:

What I would like to see from Mark sometime in the future, is to integrate the Atari OS in the flash ram.
Dream for the day who I will push the power switch, and I will see the "Basic" blue screen, without the need of SD card.
A board with Atari SOUL!!!!

?????

FO Updated by foft over 8 years ago Actions
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I'll start by a default one in block ram, (optionally overriden by sd card). Then later we can add support for the flash reading.

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foft wrote:

I'll start by a default one in block ram, (optionally overriden by sd card). Then later we can add support for the flash reading.

Thanks!

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Also of course nice and fast vs uncached sdram...

sysinfo fp test from 6x->20x :-) I probably need a cache to get this closer to 30-40x, but that will take some work.

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??? What you mean here?

FO Updated by foft over 8 years ago Actions
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I'm using block ram in the FPGA for the OS ROM and BASIC. It can be read in 2 cycles and written to in 1 cycle. SDRAM takes about 5-6 iirc. So in turbo mode, with no cpu cache, this makes a huge difference in speed.

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  • Status changed from New to In Progress

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  • Related to Feature #37: SD card insertion support added

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  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

Added basic support, see related issue.

I still plan to do the flash reading later.

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