Flashlab wrote:
@Doobrey
Yeah I asked for that image then! I sent your image to the author of the unofficial firmware. I don't know if there's a difference between 040 and 060 firmware though...
With all respect & for the last time...NO! I already said you can MOD the 040 card to 060 by swapping Resistors on the CS PCB. There is no FIRMWARE to flash there-after and a converted 040 to 060 card will perform flawlesly BECAUSE..........the 060 CPU takes it's instructions from the INSTALLED libs, just as ALL different Amiga Accelerators do!
It really is that easy.
Dont confuse "Modern-Bill-Gates-Cr4p-based-hardware-firmware updates" with the Amiga. What you have there should perform flawlesly. As I said earlier, try installing Shape shifter on IDE drives & see if you get the same freezes. Remember, Shape Shifter is an EMULATION, so expect the odd lock up now & then. The A400D I bought ran shape shifter without ever crashing & was actually faster on an Amiga 060 than a Real MAC available at the time. The seller never made any comments about his MAC Environment crashing on this A4000D ever! Apparently, it was flawless. I expect it's the version of 060 Libs you are using & all the diff 060 Libs do make a BIG difference to the performance of your Amiga.
Emplant cards were a total biatch to Set up the SCSI on the MAC side & they had their own on-board SCSI Header for the MAC Environment.
To be quite frank, I think you are barking up the wrong tree & need to either experiment with different 060 Libs or just hang it all & re-install Shape shifter to an IDE Drive. The Amiga was & is a very clever computer. The software you run needs to be good code to work without crashing. So many Games developers cut so many corners in the Early days of the Amiga, the games wouldn't run on anything faster than an A500. If those dickheads had stuck to Commodores guidelines, the games would have run on ALL Motorola processors, but the corners they cut by running routines specifically for the 68000 meant they wouldn't run on 68020's & above. So much for keeping costs down & beeing greedy for a Fast Buck with minimal expenditure. The cost was to Amiga Users with Faster Processors than an A500 and adding to that, Commodore {bleep}ed up big time sitting on their Laurels raking the cash in for an Amazing Computer to run Games. Bill Gates should be eating out of Commodores hand now....but bad management & Company Direction ended up leaving the Amiga where it is now. There is even rumor that Bill had some hand in the Demise of Commodore & The Chairman of C= just dissapeared with Millions of Debt. I spect Bill set him up on some desert Island somewhere but then rumours will just always be rumors.
Please dont think this is a rant at you, because it isnt, I just want you to understand how emphatic I am about this matter & what you are trying to do. The Firmware on ANY Accelerator card does NOT affect how the card will behave with it's Processor, but the Installed Amiga Libraries will. The Firmware is for the SCSI only.
All the Best,
Charlie
*edit* Can anyone explain this in an easier manner?; I'm too much of an Anorak Train-spotter & need to get out more than I do! :lol:
