Amiga 1000 PiStorm !NO MORE KICKSTART DISKS! 

not gonna happen my friend,. never stopped since i left commodore.

Get em both ;)

Get a Parceiro // board, and you now have 3x kickstart mappings off of SD card

indeed, especially in the 1000 which had basically nothing

i agree, the A3000 is the best engineered machine there is. AGA was just a stop gap from the AA3000 that never made it past prototype till Hessee re did it in 2020

There are new prototype test boards for the a600 and 1200 coming that do both rgb/rtg in one shot hdmi out for both. Like stated in part 1 this project is moving fast w changes daily. Claude is really rolling

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration So cool developments !!

I'm having similar issues at this point. Blank screen.

Actually i have a stacker mod from a magazine in 1987 that shows how to do just that!

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Sequel! Sequel! Sequel!!!

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration what? Tell us more.

I'm not sure if this would actually work, would you need an 1MB Agnus chip?, and because there is no 1MB DIP Agnus.

It does. Something anout address registers unused in the 1000 that were Coded For 1mb. Ill post it soon

Indeed. You can send me one and ill review and do just that!

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration awesome. pm me to info@arananet.net and I will send you one

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration why would you do that? You can get a 2€ cheap SD card extension/adapter with a ribbon cable, maybe long enough to pull out of Amiga on some place, to replace SD card without case opening. Lotharek does have them in his shop for example.

Works the same as the part2 video i did. I chose to rtg it to keep this amiga stock looking and working with more gut power. I have many that i pimp out . Its funny to see the amiga 1000 running tbl starstruck w no lag or loss . Lol

Rgb i meant

3a, zero2w. A 3b with desoldered usb ports (orig too large to fit on pins)

Pistorm has the memory of the pi itself up to a gig

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration, thank you! My problem was that I didn't fully understand what the PiStorm was, and what it was doing. Basically, it pretty much replaces the processor on the Amiga, correct? This means the Amiga no longer needs the RAM, because it's using the PiStorm and its RAM to do the processing, right? (Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong... I'm learning!)

Yup i covered it with “science and math”. Lol. Thanks!

Yeah got it off of thingeverse. www.thingiverse.com/thing:2920553

No. Mushasi works for Me as it has networking shared sd access and ram and cpu. Dont need a blazing fast 1000 when i have others. I actually use it on each repair to print the return letters to the users

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration True I was thinking the same but some one mentioned that Mushasi is a dead project and there are incompatibility issues... Which I have not experienced. I figured out the Emu68 issue. Had to flash the PiStorm with LemaruX / PiStorm-Firmware "flash_longer_hold. sh". Now CaffeineOS 9275 (Emu68) w/ WiFi support works.

yes there is a option in the config to allow it to pass through you need to enable

I think i did?

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration ok i will look through your library

Yes , recall i states there are many ways, but for zero dollars, pounds, quid whatever part....

link in the description as with instructions.

It's been a LONG time since I heard that reference.

3.1.4

So 3.1.4 just works? Winuae doesn’t like that mix, 1000 chips and 3.1. I have not tried it on my actual 1000.

WinUAE works fine with a 1000 config and 3.1. Don't know what I did wrong before. It never occurred to me to make a 3.1 kickstart disk.

Those slots are not 32bit cpu slots theyre 16bit zorro2 .The pistorm is a 32bit cpu emulator hence the a1200 roms. Idk if it would work

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I think he was referring to the fact that the ZorroII side slot will mirror the 68000 socket signals, so in theory you COULD relocate the PISTORM form factor to Zorro for use on the A1000 side expansion (Just remember the slot is Inverted to an A500's). After all, you can use an ACA500+ on a 1000 if you are good at remembering to flip the device over. The 68000 is a 16bit CPU, and the 86 pin bus is merely a buffered extension of the 68000 slot. In theory you could form factor the PIStorm to the A500/A1000 86 pin connector, but remember to remove the 68000 from the old socket. At its basic, the 86 pin carries the full compliment of 68000 signals, plus a few clock (CLK) and Ram / Rom select signals along with some 5V / GND rails. If it works on the 68000 socket, then if you form factor for the 1000 / 500 expansion slot, it SHOULD work. [edit] Checks out. The 68000 socket is connected DIRECTLY to the Expansion slot. and for the Shits / Giggles if there was enough room, it would work in an A600 too, because using a 68 pin PLCC socket and tying a pin to ground via a resistor (I forget which, BGACK is one of them and i think _BR) the 68000 goes in to stand by, so all you do is regenerate them on the PISTORM side for the system to operate. So by dropping _BR to Ground (via a 1K resistor), the pin goes low (Logic 0), and the CPU will disconnect itself from the bus. imgur.com/a/yrrBP8q

I use mushasi not emu68 on my 1000 as i want networking and shared folders.

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Hi, can you tell me where to download it?

@@silvanocosentino6988 google is your friend but here. github.com/captain-amygdala/pistorm

Hi, is it possible to boot a hard disk with Kick 1.3, have I heard of a particular version? @@ChrisEdwardsRestoration

@@silvanocosentino6988 yes just define that rom in the emu68 settings file and install 1.3 as normal, changing the starttup=sequence.hd to startup=sequence 1.3 sucks eggs though

which one, the pi is the one im fitting in , the other board is the kickstart ram storage board for ntsc machines, pal machines do not have these...

Pistorm for any other system would be a full accelerator - connect to CPU slot with all its complexity unfortunately. Reverse engineering the 68000 socket is actually pretty straightforward, you get the white paper, go through the signals and timings and setup an emulator to handle that on the hardware level. I could see this for a C64, Atari 8bit, PC/XT, and others like that. Hmmm....

There is now - PiStorm32

Theres a group buy on the discord server

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Can you the link for the DIscord server please :)

@@chrisshaw451 discord.com/invite/j6rPtzxaNW

Discord server group buy room, pinned comment. Wont do aga but will do 32b bgra rtg in 16.7 m color. Goteks and all amiga peripherals work just fine. Please dont drill use the side plate

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Good idea....I guess I won't need that A1060 Sidecar with HD any more. Not that the damned thing ever worked reliably anyway. Thanks for the video and replying. Have a coffee on me. Is there enough height for a riser so this could potentially run off the Pi3b(I already have) or even a Pi 4? Which I gather will work one day. Imagine that!!!

@@AussieAmigan the reason the "larger" pi doesnt work, 3b/4 etc is because the usb ports get in the way of the pistorm board near the gpio. you CAN use them if you just desolder the two usb ports close to the gpio, then she all snugs up. or if you have a super tall riser gpio header it would fit.

Hi Chris, I just got a Pi 3a so I won't need to use a riser. As I have the same Spirit Memory Board you do, doesn't that just relocate the CPU? Did you need to remove the Spirit Board for the PiStorm to work? If not, if you keep the Spirit Board in there will the PiStorm still fit in the A1000 case, albeit without the metal shield. There's some soldered wires on the Spirit Board I'm not keen to remove, just in case I want to put it back. Edit: Sorry, I just re-watched the video. It will fit. @1.30.

No it wont fit and you wont need it, just trim that corner like i did and all will fit just fine if you wanted to use the orig drive, otherwise your gotek will fit it fine w no trim. Too high with spirit pistorm and pi on top

Ot many, i found an old article from a magazine in 1987 that shows a stacking method w crazy wiring and it works. I may give it a go one day.

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Oh I'm afraid you'd be disappointed. I checked design by Cris Erving (copyright 1986) and it's not a chip ram hack. It's more like a ReSlow for A500 but uses AddMem to map itself to chipram space. It is - unfortunately - inaccessible to chipset and that's why newer AOS (1.2+) shouldn't be used with it or they'll try to put there things for chipset which chipset cannot access since MOS 8361/8367 does not manage signals for those ram chips. Those signals are created by syncing chipset ram access signals with decoding cpu address line signals - again - not unlike ReSlow. So - just as article presents - it's neither fast ram nor chip ram. It's not fast ram because it's not directly accessible from CPU. It's not chip ram because it's not directly accessible from Agnus. It's basically SLOWRAM in CHIPRAM address space. I don't know if there are some adapters for PLCC Agnus for A1k which would make true 1MB chip ram available - but basically that's what you'd need to get past 512KB limit of CHIP RAM on A1k.

​@@Promilus1984 The problem with A1000 Agnus vs FAT Agnus is that FAT Agnus is not pin compatible. FAT Agnus controls lot's more logic than A1000 one. There is no other solution for A1000 to increase chip ram other than Rejuvenator board - which is impossible to get. Hope some day some smart people will figure this out, but as for now there is no way to do so:/ Unfortunatelly. Surprisingly lot's of software runs fine from floppy / gotek. Like MK2, Super Frog, Lotus 3 and many other classics - which doesn't run through WHDLoad on A1000.

@@Amiga1000 Well yes and no. As I said - there is no workaround except using 1MB (or 2MB) Agnus. And it's not only problem with pin compatibility. It's different package and I already mentioned that. And I think most of the signals are the same even when slightly different names are on schematics. And sure Fat Agnus has more logic - it has to to reach more chip ram :) It does the same job in the same way ... just have some more decoding logic and maybe some mild bugfixes.

@@Amiga1000 sure would be nice if someone would reverse engineer the rejuvenator board so we could have a modern version of it.

3.1, 3.1.4 and 3.2 all work fine.

Not at all

Its a cpu accelerator. Its not like its completely making everything inside the amiga useless like the vampire does.

It's just a CPU emulator and gives you switchable kickstarts and a hard drive. The rest of the Amiga is in full operation.

​@@Daz555Dazis it better then the aca500plus for the a1000?

@@RavageReeves no idea, sorry.