Activity
From 02/07/2018 to 03/08/2018
02/24/2018
- FO 08:56 PM Bug #63 (New): Svideo issues in v20 on board v1
- I am getting a green basic screen sometimes. Seems to be a bad state somewhere since its resolved when I switch to NTSC and back. I suspect something related to the antic highres changes. Easy to reproduce so I can look what is wrong wit...
02/22/2018
- FO 09:41 PM Feature #53 (Closed): Add version number to settings
- Added board version, date and core version (need to update VERSION file manually on build)
- FO 09:40 PM Feature #58 (Closed): Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- FO 08:46 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Was getting tempted by a bigger rework, including settings in json: https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n
More work than my interest on this today!
02/21/2018
- FO 09:56 PM Feature #58 (In Progress): Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- On second thoughts, one more feature to add here.
Updating of roms on the flash by loading/then save all. - FO 09:54 PM Feature #58 (Closed): Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- FO 09:39 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Added support for filtering in the file selector. Also added hotkeys to the device menu (1-4 and C).
02/19/2018
- FO 10:05 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- M25P (54MHz max), N25Q (108MHz max) I think. Thinking I should really move away from the M25P (or equiv) for v2 fix, its pretty bad. Large sectors and slow.
- FO 10:03 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Well, I can increase the clock speed of the spi communication. I'm only at 25MHz and think I can go to 100MHz. But not sure how much time is spent in spi overhead and how much time waiting.
- FO 09:54 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Doh. Writing in 256 byte chunks increasing destination address each data, but not increasing data pointer! Oops! So working now, but takes 7 seconds to save (v1, v2 not tested). Not much I can do about that on v2 (256KB sector size) but ...
- FO 09:12 PM Feature #58: Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Loading of profiles is working (no hotkeys yet).
Saving is failing... I have to read 256KB of flash to sdram then rewrite with a diff, guess that is failing somewhere.
02/18/2018
- FO 10:17 PM Feature #58 (In Progress): Maybe consider moving CART selection closer to top in F12 menu ?
- Following the flash support, decided to split the menu into two parts:
i) Device emulation (disk + cart + usb stuff)
ii) Settings (video settings + rom + ram size etc)
+ removing the quick select menu.
The device menu is thus much ... - FO 04:44 PM Feature #37 (Closed): SD card insertion support
02/17/2018
- FO 05:19 PM Feature #62 (Closed): Store settings in spi flash
- FO 05:19 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Tested as v1, working fine. Though I noticed that the i2c code hangs v1 (devices do not exist, I thought it'd be harmless...). Modified the platform register.
- FO 12:32 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Wondering about whether to put a file system on the flash chip. Such as spiffs, which is aimed at flash chips and low memory.
https://github.com/pellepl/spiffs/
Probably overkill.
02/16/2018
- SA 10:12 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- sadosp wrote:
> foft wrote:
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- SA 10:12 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- foft wrote:
> Saving working too:)
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- FO 09:37 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Saving working too:)
- FO 09:10 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Step 1 done...
I add the settings to a jic file at a specified address.
Then I made the firmware load this if the 'settings' file is not found on the SD card.
Next step, saving!
02/15/2018
- FO 10:07 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Next step...
Add default settings to the jic. Then I can try reading/writing it. To write apparently I need to erase a page (to set to all 0xff), then write a page (to set some bits low). Reading looks trivial, though perhaps I have dif... - FO 10:01 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- sadosp wrote:
> foft wrote:
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Nah, just means I messed something up before which the SD card didn't care about (surprisingly).
- FO 10:00 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Yep, that was it. I can read and display the flash device id now.
The paves the way for saving settings, also it makes it fairly simple to load and flash a core from the SD card. That is for later... - SA 09:42 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- foft wrote:
> I thought about it and currently _believe_ the problem is that cs_n is raised in between bytes (rather than at the end of a command sequence). I think I'm doing this without problem on the SD card, but for the flash it doe... - FO 06:55 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- I thought about it and currently _believe_ the problem is that cs_n is raised in between bytes (rather than at the end of a command sequence). I think I'm doing this without problem on the SD card, but for the flash it doesn't work.
02/14/2018
- FO 10:28 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Tried with 9f since I'm not sure ab is supported. Same result.
Got the scope on it and checked that the commands and chip select are correct. Look to be, but data out looks weird. Driven low, then gradually climbs like when there is a... - FO 09:11 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- I found out I'd connected the hardware (in the vhdl) wrong, so no dice.
Reconnected what I thought was correctly, but no luck...
port map(
asmi_access_granted => '0', (never granted, always used by the fpga)... - FO 08:20 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- Think I have the hardware side connected, trying to talk to it now via firmware. Fingers crossed!
02/11/2018
- FO 10:13 PM Feature #62: Store settings in spi flash
- On some cyclones the active serial pins can be directly used as IO. I tried that on here (cyclone v) but it didn't work, however it should be possible using the serial flash loader. This is what is internally used when programming via ji...
02/10/2018
- FO 09:24 AM Feature #62 (Closed): Store settings in spi flash
- Read/write settings from the flash chip, with override from sd.
Want to check this works before new boards.
02/08/2018
- FO 09:09 PM Bug #47 (Closed): CORE 13 - Paddle, Touchtablet issues
- FO 09:08 PM Bug #47: CORE 13 - Paddle, Touchtablet issues
- In the next run of boards we are added a variable resistor to allow adjusting the level the paddle detector uses.
For old boards, use a decent PSU! - FO 09:06 PM Feature #24 (Closed): A board with Atari SOUL!!!! (ROM in block ram support)
- Added basic support, see related issue.
I still plan to do the flash reading later. - FO 07:56 PM Feature #24 (In Progress): A board with Atari SOUL!!!! (ROM in block ram support)
- FO 09:05 PM Feature #37: SD card insertion support
- Confirmed that SD detect works.
Added primitive insert/eject support. Its kind of crap, but it works...
Boot with no SD card means -> 320KB compy 1x, HDMI if connected, VGA if connected, otherwise RGB 15KHz. NTSC (more monitors com... - FO 07:57 PM Feature #37: SD card insertion support
- Another place we need to check hardware before new boards...
- FO 07:56 PM Feature #37 (In Progress): SD card insertion support
- FO 07:55 PM Feature #14 (Closed): Svideo core for first prototype
- I don't see composite and svideo as core outputs, much worse quality even when perfectly done. I'm pretty happy with the current state, sometimes the TV controls need adjusting a little but that isn't a big problem.
- FO 07:53 PM Bug #56 (Closed): Galaxian Cartridge crash
- Working fine on recent cores
02/07/2018
- FO 09:14 PM Feature #12 (Closed): Set up redmine backups!
- FO 09:14 PM Feature #12: Set up redmine backups!
- My second disk died before I moved it to the NAS. Never mind though, recovered the data. Now backup is to my nas since I do not have a 2nd disk!
- FO 09:13 PM Bug #17 (Closed): NTSC crashing on some builds
- On second thoughts... closing until we see it again.
- FO 09:11 PM Bug #17: NTSC crashing on some builds
- Not seen this for months, think it was an issue around this time that has been fixed. Marking as normal priority for now.
- FO 08:51 PM Feature #7: Implement I2C vga/hdmi support
- Added to the video settings 'VGA connected' and 'HDMI connected' which look for the start of the DDC sequence '00FF'
- FO 08:25 PM Feature #7: Implement I2C vga/hdmi support
- Setting back to normal since the hardware side is working fine.
- FO 08:25 PM Feature #7: Implement I2C vga/hdmi support
- HDMI is working too... “00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 10 AC …
- FO 08:23 PM Feature #7: Implement I2C vga/hdmi support
- VGA is working... receiving “00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 10 AC …"
Now for HDMI - FO 08:00 PM Feature #7: Implement I2C vga/hdmi support
- I had the pin assignments backwards. I can now write 4/5 to the control register and read it back. This should be channel select.
Next up... checking that what I write makes it to the VGA and HDMI port. I guess I could try speaking t...