From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jan 13 15:34:02 2010 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=77QgR4sJSAumo2qObjo9ONuw/nAKyzeE5acSF1xingI=; b=LQKVIfna21qQnK9CQP01V6Na/KDrUGILxhg34uL53F6pB3+JSRZHgyMYLHCzckZheQ 7XcLHASJHccKORP3xMausRCiYzTylX6bxNCvBMds8P6hBnb7QDiMqDNj4nIk5sKkZnbX KWEqZ7lo5a1F08ieMaBOEui6loZJQvRYWdRhQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PHDVo30iB/u7JMnRtIXANEDniloHl/kgQ28A7Leua+5IU6qosVMHwM15OUN+Hn0GEG z/6sMIT+Gw0QJ9JTZ1jlccpQROBnKL9SF0oKEeQp4VIpGU4FMCQrQpLBq29bKx88/3k+ 4LNZ0/QMCa7w5KbogrmzSruZ5Qa6k/0GgjFuk= Message-ID: <4B4E2D3F.1030303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:29:51 +0000 From: Mariusz Buras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100112 Shredder/3.0.2pre ThunderBrowse/3.2.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Installing on a MegaSTE References: <4da966f01001131059h616973c3uda0adf12102ccbd9@mail.gmail.com> <4B4E1D55.2020607@atari-source.org> <11a6f2b11001131208m86744abrf0f62ec3d0f1d20b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <11a6f2b11001131208m86744abrf0f62ec3d0f1d20b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mariusz.buras@gmail.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 13/01/2010 20:08, Paul Wratt wrote: > 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 > > > It would be best to just replace CPLD with a different type. It shouldn't be too difficult. Cheers, Mariusz.