From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jan 13 20:03:56 2010 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:01:44 -0500 (EST) From: Jim DeClercq To: Mark Duckworth cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] Installing on a MegaSTE In-Reply-To: <4B4E1D55.2020607@atari-source.org> Message-ID: References: <4da966f01001131059h616973c3uda0adf12102ccbd9@mail.gmail.com> <4B4E1D55.2020607@atari-source.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: jimd@panix.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, 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 > Consider me in for 300 USD minimum. I have one MSTE and several 1040 ST, and I want one for each of the. I do not know why either. Jim DeClercq