From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jan 13 15:10:31 2010 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=q9UlRU6j4NNmEQKhoyT29K3n2bK3mOkio5eQaf6clcw=; b=H2sRGJokqy3MxxM8ptnqU0P5dBGN3v3Q0foP/yz6GgNnRq3NZNHgUzV+046Od35Qpx 4mzDllVtnB6aoAyPGCkJmQFsACt4aJebvTjxOC1TPrEmwgLltfOX2PUVl8h1Rf5JZIEK yJ0TTQneEw0cYJlNHKV/yRlo+Z1ys/XH8Oq8A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=q3Jv5me6yMpi5o7Wk2J95no+q6miQGBhzwiyDK2FsZANMrjsSnHbhUIxpMI6B9nulJ +mBf73lYOK9xKGSWfnKRojKTCEApTj5rU9juf0Bii+ZDBssgo0WIuvFTqD8wUrF1VmFB SGTL5WrGjGmTcJWtPw5cAZfQ4tji5c9PTkUfQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B4E1D55.2020607@atari-source.org> References: <4da966f01001131059h616973c3uda0adf12102ccbd9@mail.gmail.com> <4B4E1D55.2020607@atari-source.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:08:02 -0600 Message-ID: <11a6f2b11001131208m86744abrf0f62ec3d0f1d20b@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Installing on a MegaSTE From: Paul Wratt To: mint Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: paul.wratt@gmail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o0DKAVec015400 On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Mark Duckworth wrote: > On 1/13/10 1:59 PM, Christos Tziotzis wrote: >> >> Hi, >> A friend and I tried to install MiNT on his 4MB MSTE without XFS. However >> the memory usage was approximately 3MB of RAM living only 1 to the user. As >> you can see this makes the system almost useless. So: >> Is there a way to minimize the memory usage? >> Also could this be an effect of left over code in MiNT? And if so, should >> there be a clean up of the code? >> The system was: MiNT, XaAES, Teradesk, and Ethernec driver. >> Thanks. >> Christos > > This is about right :(.  I too want to run mint on my MSTe so I hunted > solutions and found one.  The Magnum STe.  This isn't for sale anymore and > wasn't for sale for very long but it is a 14MB st ram board for ste's.  They > also made an ST variant as well as a TT variant that allowed 256mb! of tt > ram.  I searched for a couple weeks and got in touch with the author.  I > found the schematics online and hunted down all the components to build a > board.  The author graciously sent me the CPLD code as well as the gerber > files to have a pcb made!  The author even gave me permission to sell the > boards with profit!  If all goes well I'll have 2 MSTe's with 14MB of ram > and the parts to build 6 more of them to send to people!  If it works, I > will buy the rest of the components I need to make as many as possible but > the CPLD is no longer available through normal channels.  I still have to go > over the gerber files and submit it to batchpcb.  The CPLD's are very > expensive so any boards produced are going to be well over $100USD in > components and pcb cost alone but hey...  Also an associate of the developer > has several Magnum ST and TT boards left and I asked him to send them to me > which he is doing for the price of postage!  These guys definitely have no > atari interest anymore. > > But between this and the MSTEIDEM there is a reason to built mint for ST. > > The sad thing is between Aranym, 2 TT's and my falcon, I have no idea WHY I > want to make my mste usable with mint... I just DO. > > Thanks, > Mark > I would say keep churning them out while you can, if the CPLD are a limited resource, then it may be worth approaching some one of a philathopic nature to aquire the lot. As a last resort the same approach could be taken to get a custom run of CPLD created, but that would imply a market in which it could break even at least Paul some one of a philathopic nature - money to burn for the right cause