Hi.... I am wondering what the best aproach is, when I have my full Amiga HDD install in an image file, and want to reflash it with the use of EMU68? The flasher tool deletes any partition before writing, and that is no good, as I will loose the EMU68 FAT32 partition when flashing. Though I use Linux and not Windows, but I suspect that partition management is basically same aproach.
@@brostenen On Linux its quite easy : flash or partition the card normally (a fat32 partition, then a type 0x76 partition) then dd your hdd image to the second partition :) e.g. 'dd if=myimage.hdf of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096' assuming sdb is your card reader, sdb2 is then the second (0x76 type) partition on that card..
@@drunken1079 Cool. But what if that image file with my Amiga HDD contains 3 or 4 partitions? Can an Amiga filesystem survive, when I move it with G-Parted? And then create the FAT32 and finally copy the EMU68 software onto that?
@@brostenen Just dd the entire hdd image into the 0x76 partition, the amiga partitioning will be kept. the 0x76 type tells the emu68 sd driver that this partition should be treated like a full harddisk. Moving amiga partitions within the 0x76 with gparted will probably wont work, but dd'ing a existing amiga harddisk image, even with multiple amiga partions in it, is how i use emu68 too
Stuff like this continues to amaze and surprise me. The Amiga community repeatedly keeps kicking what the machine can do out of the ball park. Truly inspiring stuff.
Wow wow wow…..wow. ADD TO CART!!!! Now why would you want this Q? You already have a 68060 in your 1200. You’ve made happy videos about it. This is FASTER. A LOT. I also have others with 060s and I’d prefer keeping at least one tucked away safe, unplugged. To help preserve one. Thank you, Chris, for this awesome step by step!
Yeah even though you big amiga guys have RC060’s with FPUs, many don’t, and that demo performance (black lotus: we came in peace) won’t run on my TF1260 at 97Mhz with soft fpu.
@@drphilxr yeah I don’t really do the demos or games. As for the 060s without FPU. I’ve said this before, you’re really better off getting a FPU/Ram card for the A1200. IF, you’re more interested in apps and not games. Why? Two main reasons. It’s near the same speed as a softFPU 060. For those programs that use FPU, it will actually be faster than the softFPU 060.
My Re-Amiga 1200 build has been on hold for about a year until I got my projects backlog caught up. The build will be next on the bench soon this spring and this product came at the right time ! Going to secure one of these Amiga 1200 Pistorm32's right now ! :-) Thanks for a very good rundown of what to expect. I could not ever see the insanity of purchase any 060 accelerator for so much money and the RP solutions just makes sense.
Thanks Doc! I ordered it as soon as I saw it on the Patreon page and I couldn't believe it was so cheap! I just built a TF1260 A1200 and it has great performance but the PiStorm32 is balastic! Thanks for another great reveal/tutorial. Setup should be easy after learning the original PiStorm setup you mentioned ;)
Appollo 1260 real or the FPGA under the same name. Oh. Towerized. The heat in the trapdoor would kill that A1200. I have a Aca1234 030 @ 50 MHz. 0 room left. FPGAs and RPis don't run hot. New fab process. The author uses TF1230 from I gathered. PiStorm is a toss board. In terms of software compatibility, everything runs with real hardware out of 1000s of games and programs I've used. Sorry, I skipped the ending. I wouldn't risk opening my A1200. It's running right now playing b-17 Flying fortress. I can't get the plane off the ground. I misplaced the original game manual.
@ChrisEdwardsRestoration yes, I'm sure it will come soon. This update he's sped up some code (I don't understand all of his tech speek). An update is an update!
Incredible Chris .. I was really impressed .. I had already seen something on the internet, but with your tests, nothing more to do. It's leaving the A1200 as the fast and powerful friend out there. A hug from a distance, and now you add more than 2 of the best wines from Chile. I hope to go soon to deliver them personally!!!!
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration re MMIG 1,8 and pistorm. well the disk speed feels slower and especially with Mac Emulation in CaffeineOS. But once you load the software if you're not using disk access its really fast.
Still waiting on mine from RetroPassion. I paid £124.98 for it. They should be shipping it out soon. I'll be removing my Blizzard 1230mkIV for the 1st time in years and testing it with a Pi 4B so should be even faster. Great Video Chris. Amiga is still Alive and kicking!!!
Wow £125? That’s very expensive compared to mine from AmigaKit at £79. It was turned around and with me in 36 hours. Hope you enjoy it when it arrives 👍🏻
Thanks Chris! This looks great but waiting for the CM4 adapter before taking the plunge, plus the CM4 isn't arriving until July but a good sensible pre-pandemic/supply shortage price.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration That's the state of the supply chain and they're made in the UK! Saw some in stock in a store in Holland but more expensive plus the CM4 adapter isn't ready yet!
I have just had my A1200 recapped, ordered myself a PiStorm Lite, Pi 3a+ and a 64gb SD. Funnily enough my old 250mb HD worked (although it did sound like a pneumatic hammer with a short!). Anyway, looking forward to messing about with it all soon.
Added and paid hopefully I am one of the 50 and to be honest I just bought a recapped 1200 motherboard from them for 250$ Canadian they have the best damn prices anywhere
Just bagged a Pistorm form my 1200 so this video has been/will be super useful to me so appreciate you making it. Always informative and fun to watch you stuff! Now I'm no expert, but I was curious as to why there was no disk access speed up with the speed of this thing? I only ask because on my Apollo 1260s and TF1260 when over clocked there is a speed up with them. Like taking my TF1260 from 50mhz, then gradually to 100mhz there is definitely an increase in disk speed. It's not tonnes but it happens. I'd have thought the pistorm speed alone would have seen it go up 1mb or 2.
Nice performance! I have one coming in now. The CHIP RAM thing is 100% NOT fixed. Look at your Terrible Fire results. CHIP RAM is 3.2x the speed of an A600. With piStorm it is 1.5x. it still chokes CHIP RAM, because AGA natively is much faster accessing CHIP RAM than ECS machines
Chip speed will not reach the likes of Vampire, but it will end up faster than the current results. It is something being worked on. For the first release stability was more important. It should be plenty for most things run on it. Also the water is a bit muddied due to different types of chip accesses working at different speed.
Great and informative video. Just one question, you unplugged your IDE drive to boot Caffeine. Does that mean that Caffeine can't see IDE Amiga drives when it's booted or just there is no boot selector and the system would prioritise your IDE boot drive if it was connected?
That (Merging this and the RGB2HDMI) would make this perfect - Have the HDMI and Ethernet passthrough on the blanking plate at the back and it'd be a seamless upgrade.
I've been playing with my PiStorm32-lite for a few days using CaffeineOS 916, very impressive for the 3D demos/games but I'm having graphic corruption problems with all the WHDLoad games I've tried and if start disabling stuff in the WHDLoad pre-game popup it either doesn't fix the problem or runs the game at 25-50% speed 😭. I'll keep experimenting see if I can get my favourites working 100% and share IF I work out anything... 😁
@@sbirchsbirch6232 I've been distracted by a lot of stuff (tech & family related) I've tried a few random things with no luck but I think I need to have a few hours methodically changing 1 option at a time... I might try musashi, I'd be happy enough with that level of performance if the WHDLoad stuff worked... If it that does the trick I've seen a guide to dual boot 68kEMU & musashi on the same memory card...
Thanks for the video. I just got my PiStorm32-lite and tested it briefly today on my A1200. Very impressive. Also I found the CaffeineOS 797 and have run it on the A1200 now. I am just curious about what steps are needed to get the RTG running?
caffeine is rtg, but all the basic programs are in rbg... to enable rtg on your own builds you need to install picasso96, and config it to point to the pistorm file as it will be its pretend board picasso96 attaches to
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thanks for the reply. The CoffeineOS_797 I got was pretty much a preinstalled image file which I mounted in WinUAE and copied across to my SD card partitions for PiStorm. Then I booted UAE from the SD card partitions and set it to use PAL. It booted right up on the PiStorm, however there was a program named "Finish" in WBStartUp that frooze it. I removed that and now it boots up. The installation already have Picasso96 installed, but I am not sure what you mean by configuring it to point to the pistorm file. What pistorm file are you refering to?
I enjoyed this video! Easy to understand, and great humor. :) This is a tempting piece of hardware. Question.. Is this a fixed 68040 solution, or can you configure it to 68030? If that makes any difference in compatibility with games and demos.. I can't seem to find any info on doing this in the config.txt, which is where I assume you would do it.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thank you, Chris. :) Do you know how it's done? I can't find any info on what commands you can use in config.txt, besides specifying kick.rom.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration the original pistorm dropped significantly so not sure what you mean, before they where $100+ now around $25-35 each, same for the tf1230-tf1260 cards
Have pistorm in my 500 snd have a 1200 one on order. I have little interest in games or running demos but the chip memory is still slow. The 1200 one appeals the 1200 has a hole in the back to put cable through so unlike in my 500 I can have a good chance of putting the lid on.
There clear case made for the A500 has a side cover for the left that has places to connect ethernet, microSD slot extension, and USB I think. There's probably also a printable side cover on thingaverse for it. As for height, if you solder the pistorm onto your pi, you will save some height so you can get your cover on. I'm not sure if you can get more height by putting shorter pins into the pistorm, or the ethernet jack will hit something anyways. Yeah, all of this is still not as nice as the back panel on the A1200 though. I wish someone made a single board sidecar for the A500 with a case that would leave the microSD accessible from the top. That would be really handy. Pi4 for A500 PiStorm would be handy also.
@@IntenseGrid Thanks for giving me some ideas. The Pi and Storm fit nicely. Have a fan in there pointing at the Pi but it never even gets to 40C so not really needed. Think I am just being lazy. Have the RGB2HDMI in there and the Pi with thick cable adaptors for HDMI to DVI for my two screens and really just never got around to treading some flat flex out for the HDMI. The A1200 is more attractive as I have LAN card in the card slot rather than the using the parallel port plipbox on the back of the 500. Now if only the LAN card in the PCMCIA slot would connect more than one time in three...
Just tested the caffeine on an Amiga 500 with PiStorm Rev B. The ChipRam speed was 2,90 or 2,60 or something. I used an PI3-A. Sysinfo speed test gave some 79000 or in that neighbourhood. It is a good release of EMU68.
wow i have a 3b+ and my chipspeed sucks at 1.5, while works AGA games suffer with ghosting or not complete drawn items, and ECS games run slow when alot of objects are on the screen, can you play GODS and have it actually play at normal speed?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I have not tried it yet. As I need to get the image of my A600 hdd transfered first. But there should be this Zebs image floating around. It has a WHD loader and all that jazz. But you might already know that image.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I just checked up again. Amiga500-OCS, 1mb ChipRam, Pistorm rev b and RPI3a+ gives 776,40 mips, 704,13 MFlops, 743794 Dhrystones and 2,70 ChipSpeed.... I used sysinfo 4.0
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I will upload a video, tomorrow evening local time. That is aprox 24 hours from now. (I am in Denmark) And I will see if I can get that Amiga600 HDD image going that I have. And then test again.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Are others having the same trouble? Maybe I'll hold off getting the PiStorm32 until prices go back down, and it is a bit more mature. I've got a 1GB Pi4 waiting for it, but I would rather have the CM4 version that I've seen pictures of.
@@IntenseGrid seems like a known issue. i mean it works, but then it gets weird the card wont be detected, or notload, or overheat. yet the 3b+ works steady all day long
I think I missed a step here. When you tested just the Pistorm with your existing CF card over built-in IDE, you needed the 500MB Emu68 system but when you tested Caffeine OS, you used the pre-made image blasted onto another SD card. Does it already include a separate partition for the Emu68 stuff? While I do like the idea of these optimized systems, I feel they're way too customized for my liking....just like AmiKit from way back. So if I wanted to build my own AmigaOS system but also take advantage of the faster storage speed, I would just partition the remainder of my SD card that contains the Emu68 boot partition?
caffeine is burn and go, even has roms which i disagree with. but if you build your own you can carve out a large hard drive or two directly on the pistorm sd card, thats how caffeine does it and pimps their os from there.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Should I read up on this Type 76 partition stuff or will I simply be able to see the free space on the microSD from the Amiga OS side?
@@jdryyz if you follow my steps it will show up once created on the amiga os side when you edit the tooltype of hdtoolbox to include the pistorms name of its scsi.device
Official new Amiga Arm is the future I hope these managers understand.... fast, buy build an Arm Amiga china pcb cost less than 30$ so they cannot make money.
Chris, When I connect with HDMI I get the Emu68 startup screen. Is that something because my A1200 with VGA will load and show no Fast Ram and 020 CPU?
is there any advantage if your using a high end, all singing dancing Pi, or will a classic model the cheaper (even the one with the missing ports models as long got GPIO HEADER, the better do all the same stuff, or will there speed hit, somewhere?
@@f1lupo I missed that sillyness as I bought my last run of Pi’s before prices went crazy. Just dumb luck on my part, but could have sold all of them a few weeks later for double, but didnt.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... I've followed the directions in the video all the way through (using plain vanilla PiStorm as an accelerator only, not CaffeineOS), and my Amiga boots as normal but it's like the PiStorm isn't even there, but over on HDMI the PiStorm is at the white boot screen logo. The only thing different is I'm using a 64GB San Disk Ultra sd card but it's partitioned exactly like yours with a 500MB FAT32 partition that I extracted all the files to. I've tried two different Pi3B and they both do the same thing. The only other hardware installed is a Gotek for internal floppy drive, an IDE CF reader (my normal boot hard drive) and an Indivision AGA MkIII scan doubler. All voltages seem fine, a strong 5.1 volts is getting everywhere on the board. Tried different sd cards (with the January firmware) with no success.
if you see the emu68 logo its working. RTG on a self built image wont be there until you install picasso96 and follow the pistorm instructions on how to add RTG, if you want test it with caffeine on hdmi to see whats what. otherwise its a emulated 040 w ram
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thank you! I carefully replaced the incorrect 40 pin connector on the PiStorm with the proper connector and now all is running as it should, thank goodness. I'm just a little slower than you as I'm running a 3B and not a 3B+, and I think I need the proper cpu libraries for the 040 since I'm getting a crash running ShowConfig. Otherwise, the speed of this thing kicks ass!
Having issues with my pistorm and pi 3B. Followed the instructions a few times, tried a couple of different SD cards. Used tools in Amiga Forever to create the kick.rom file. I get an emu68 screen from the pi hdmi, but a flashing green screen from the amiga output (which I think means chip ram?). If I take the the sdcard out of the pi, the amiga boots off floppy with no issues. Tried two different Pi 3Bs now and same problem. Not finding much so far in the way of trouble shooting guides. I may be able to get hold of another a1200 to test it on. Are there any troubleshooting guides out there?
ah hah, easy, there is a issue with the version of the firmware, when you go to the nightly builds, roll back to the 15th Jan 2023 and use that one, it will work fine. i opened a github ticket for this exact issue and others are having the problem, pistorm team has acknowledged this
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Excellent, thank you. I picked up the latest but sounds like they are still working on it. I used the 15th Jan files and all working ok now.
There are others building and selling the Pistorm32s and are shipping now not on Feb 20th.... And Given the issues with builds coming from LCSC thats a good thing.
Got mine running an hour after receiving card. I installed a Pi 3A but memory shows around 370 meg not the huge amount Chris has. Still a lot but wondering why. Not using RtG, booting of 1200s drive
The only thing I don't like about this is having to have a separate screen for RTG. Maybe something can be done later externally to combine the signals? Ordered anyway.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Nice. I figured someone would likely have something up their sleeve. Hopefully keycaps and case badges will finally materialise and my 1200 can finally get the love it deserves
@@antiriad yes you can do native, stretch or fill on any hookup, it honestly the best monitor ive ever owned, 2 dv1, hdmi, component, composide, vga, svid, usb, card reader, audio pass through, and more. its incredible, best part they are NOT NEW so you can get them like i did as low as 65$ with a stand shipped
@Chris Edwards Restoration Great. I think I will get one of these. I Can find it for fairly cheap. Doesn't it need buffered or un-buffered DB23 Video Adapter?
Chris do you have any idea what power requirements are needed to run the pistorm32 lite? I have a meanwell RT50B coming but I also have an A500 heavy ps ? I am wondering what is enough, thanks
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I was more wondering about Amps as I read a pi can take 3 amps @5 volts , and running my pi3b and Pimiga with a 2.5 amp wall wart always produces a lightning bolt on screen
@@glennbojones777 wow my original power adaptor is 4amp. the 400 here in the usa is the same. idk, my pi3b works fine in it no issues, i had numerous problems with the model4 in it
Me looking at my Blizzard 1230/50 with scsi card 🤨 placed an order for one 😁. What kind of video output do you get? Didn’t appear to go too deep into that.
base mode is normal amiga video, Caffeine RTG mode is in 1080p, but you can go as high as you want, these old eyes i keep it in the i can barely see them icons mode.
@@drphilxr you would have to do some work with it and the host run stuff would not work, but you could extract the partitions and move them to matching type76 partition disks and boot it
Thanks for the video, well my wallet might not be ;), been waiting a while for these. I need to buy a Pi for this, so I’m looking at a Pi4. Am I correct in presuming there’s no tangible benefit to getting a 2GB+ over the 1GB?
Thanks for the link to the coffin on archives. (yeah, yeah... I know it would sound strange in a morgue) ;-) I have been looking for a link, but google was not my friend (that f'ing "traitor"), so now I will test it out in my PiStorm that I have in an Amiga500. One question though. Does this coffin need a kickstart file? Or can I run it with a real kickstart chip onboard?
its caffeine not coffin, Caffeine like the stuff in coffee or cola or whatever .. it will work on your real amiga, i think it has a 3.9 hagge and partner rom in it modified for caffeine. so it just boots.
Is there any hope that this can be expanded to get passthrough native Amiga video in the future...? This is one of the most annoying things with the Vampire compared to my big box Amigas like the A4000 with PicassoIV and so on....
there in works for camera port usage for amiga native video so a single hdmi solution, there is another way currently if you have something like a aga scan plus or indivision, you can put the hdmi outputs on a switch box and have it autoswitch. not perfect and lots of cables but works.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Cool! Wonder if this cameraport solution will introduce som kind of input lag.. and I guess they will need to get the video signal directly from the chipset like the indivision does?
Interesting. My A1200 is sitting on top of the piano doing nothing. I have got a R-pi, also doing nothing. I have got an R-pi 3. I shall have to check if it is a 3B! Thanks for uploading .
My R-Pi is a 3B. So if that's what you have been testing, then it has to be thing. I think you must be a Time Lord from Gallifrey who travelled by Tardis to Amiga Kit, as their web site says, "Coming soon, 28th February".
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Would love to see a video on that comparison. Apples to apples that is. With Pi4 in the PiStorm32-lite and a Pi400 for Pimiga3 both running the same filesystems.
Hi Chris, first let me thank you for keeping us properly updated. I recently got my PiStorm 32 Lite and I'm now trying to make it boot without success. I'm using it with a Pi 3A+ and whenever I try to boot Emu 68 all I got is the Emu68 splash Screen from the Pi and a blinking white screen from the amiga and the amiga green light keeps blinking. No CF installed. Any ideas? Thx in advance.
Hi, Please can you help. I installed PIstorm 68, I get just the grey screen showing emu68 0.11.4 INFO below. It will not load up. I think you mentioned something about RTG? I do not have a cf card installed. I can see workbench on other screen displaying 3.1. So its stuck on 68 Pistorm in grey screen. Please can you help? Thanks
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Chris you are doing a great job for Amiga community all over the globe. You will be amazed to know that I am not from USA or Europe, am rather from South Asia, so you can imagine how far deep this computer had reached other countries all over the world in the past therefore Amiga wasn't an ordinary computer. I wish this platform gets truly resurrected as it was before and with full backwards compatibility like the PC is today.
Holly smokes. Do I smell a Vampire killer here? I was very hesitant to get an ICE Drake 1200 for 450$+ but jumped right on this one. I don't understand what "lite" means in the Pistorm32 means. Is there supposed to be another version?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationIt seems they also raised the IceDrake V4 to 500...Euros (600 with VAT). A few years ago when I got the Vampire V2 for my A500 they even charged me for VAT (Where they Shouldn't). I could spend $250 on AmigaKIT for a refurb A1200 motherboard for my spare A1200 case/keyboard and will still not be close. Retropaassion sells the Pistorm32 1200 for 120 UK Pounds. This is a hell of a good deal from Amigakit.
The original PiStorm32 development was for a board to directly take a Pi Compute Module 4 with connectors for various CM4 features. Due to the reduced availability of PI boards the lite version was designed to take the wider range of boards with the 40 pin header. An adapter will allow a CM4 to be used with the lite version.
where can find CaffeineOS verzion 13/1/23 ? in the ling has only the last who has problem to boot in my amiga1200 pistorme32 with raspberry pi 4B ,thx!
yes it all works so far, pi3 series for the best compatibility, i have another with a pi4 and have had nothing but issues with it. flakey little things that dont work or video that gets weird. you dont have to use HDMI and it wont work native until you install picasso and set it up if your building your own, caffeine is just set for hdmi with rgb for its 15khz programs out the rgb port
Hi chris, i have the same monitor as you, the dell 2410f but my image its worse than yours. How you connect the vga cable? throught a buffered RGB adaptor? And the compatibility for amiga 1200 AGA and OCS/ECS games? its good? Or we lost Those things? This Pistorm look good but i feel COMMODORE AMIGA 1200 lost his SOUL hehehehe. Thanks.
@@djwaveshark i am running ntsc machines on my ntsc monitor, when i DO run a pal amiga on my ntsc monitor in PAl high res or even standard, i have jailbars... even with my buffered display, but if i hook it up to a pal converted power monitor it works fine.
@@djwaveshark I initially used an Amiga Video -> VGA adapter, double buffered, and had jail bars. Purchased an external Medusa scan-doubler box which goes Amiga Video -> SCART (to Medusa) and then DVI-I -> HDMI on a 27" Dell and the display is jaw-dropping. This Dell supports 15-31Khz and 50-72Hz and 5:4. Also, you'll lose compatibility of about 40% of games. Some of these can be fixed with cache entries in the .ini file but the list of incompatible titles is glaringly large. Ideally, only go PiStorm if you're interested in desktop/RTG productivity. Even there, it crashes in unexpected places. The project as a whole needs a lot of work, which will only continue so long as demand persists. The Vampire was the better choice, but expensive and appears to have been discontinued.
not too bad . takes like 20 mins for a basic setup. all of this 22 minutes of actual video minus intros and outros and fluff was not bad at all, if you have smaller fingers and a faster pc than my old 2016 one, you can make it even faster.
Most of the setup is covered in Doc's tutorial on the PiStorm setup. I just got back into Amiga OS and it wasn't too difficult or time consuming until I went for the RTG setup. I never owned an RTG card back in the day so I was pretty lost at first.
£79.99 (IUNCLUDES VAT) Pre-order this product to secure it now. It will be in stock on Tuesday 28 February, 2023... I think i will stick to my LC060 TF card. My A500 pistorm is enough alternative experience for me.
you map a rom in the boot partition of the pistorm, it doesnt matter what roms you have in it. you can however long ctrl amiga amiga reset and boot into a rom mode. take a look at the amiga.org wiki link in the description, it tells you how to do everything that i explained in this video
Can someone.please explain when using a PI accelerator ( which one doesnt matter ) , how about to use the ports like HDMI, USB, ETHERNET? , is there a board like the omniport for the Pi, or do we need to beeing creative again and use rare methods?
hdmi is implemented as the RTG modes, you will still need a 15khz capable monitor for amiga native video programs, USB and ethernet and wifi are not implemented at this time.
all i get is a blue screen, or blinking green screen depending on the version of the 32Lite build, the hdmi always shows she emu screen but the normal amiga screen wont show me the kickstart
I've seen 3 videos on the pistorm and all of them use this CaffeineOS instead of Workbench. Is that required in order to output to HDMI? Can you not use the Pistorm with workbench?
I am having an issue that when I just boot up the pistorm 32 lite with the latest build mar10, in sysinfo it only shows as a 68ec020 but I have the 1.9 gigs of ram
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I did manage to get Caffeine OS 917 running great , and when I use sysinfo 4.3 the chip speed says “4 times an A600 “ , hopefully this means it’s sorted out?! Anyway thanks for the help.
New Amiga 3/4000s needed, along with new 68K CPUs, all using modern memory, PCI-E slots and fast storage options. But PiStorm will have to suffice for the time being. 😁
@@IntenseGrid I don't know what it is going to be but the main difference atm is that CM4 would be cheaper to buy as a new if it would be available, and it has option for onboard storage as well. The adapter could be more slim and a bit more plug & play but of course all of the ports have to be added to the pistorm PCB which adds some cost. I don't know if there's plans to add something like m.2 ssd slot or any other stuff that would make it way better than the lite version but in my opinion it's not very likely to have big differences since the biggest selling point of pistorm is that it's open and it's a cheap way to get a good accelerator on your amiga
Hey! Glad you like Pistorm32-lite :) Thanks for the review video
I love it! and on behalf of the entire Amiga community we thank you for making al this possible!
Hi....
I am wondering what the best aproach is, when I have my full Amiga HDD install in an image file, and want to reflash it with the use of EMU68? The flasher tool deletes any partition before writing, and that is no good, as I will loose the EMU68 FAT32 partition when flashing. Though I use Linux and not Windows, but I suspect that partition management is basically same aproach.
@@brostenen On Linux its quite easy : flash or partition the card normally (a fat32 partition, then a type 0x76 partition) then dd your hdd image to the second partition :) e.g. 'dd if=myimage.hdf of=/dev/sdb2 bs=4096' assuming sdb is your card reader, sdb2 is then the second (0x76 type) partition on that card..
@@drunken1079 Cool. But what if that image file with my Amiga HDD contains 3 or 4 partitions? Can an Amiga filesystem survive, when I move it with G-Parted? And then create the FAT32 and finally copy the EMU68 software onto that?
@@brostenen Just dd the entire hdd image into the 0x76 partition, the amiga partitioning will be kept. the 0x76 type tells the emu68 sd driver that this partition should be treated like a full harddisk. Moving amiga partitions within the 0x76 with gparted will probably wont work, but dd'ing a existing amiga harddisk image, even with multiple amiga partions in it, is how i use emu68 too
Stuff like this continues to amaze and surprise me.
The Amiga community repeatedly keeps kicking what the machine can do out of the ball park.
Truly inspiring stuff.
Sold! $87.00 to USA - hard click yes, on the way. Love my PiStorm in my A1000 - transformative! And I had to PCBWay that and build it myself.
Wow wow wow…..wow. ADD TO CART!!!! Now why would you want this Q? You already have a 68060 in your 1200. You’ve made happy videos about it. This is FASTER. A LOT. I also have others with 060s and I’d prefer keeping at least one tucked away safe, unplugged. To help preserve one. Thank you, Chris, for this awesome step by step!
Its pretty neat.. I got mines ;)
Yeah even though you big amiga guys have RC060’s with FPUs, many don’t, and that demo performance (black lotus: we came in peace) won’t run on my TF1260 at 97Mhz with soft fpu.
@@drphilxr yeah I don’t really do the demos or games. As for the 060s without FPU. I’ve said this before, you’re really better off getting a FPU/Ram card for the A1200. IF, you’re more interested in apps and not games. Why? Two main reasons. It’s near the same speed as a softFPU 060. For those programs that use FPU, it will actually be faster than the softFPU 060.
I also currently have the TF 1260. Thank God I only paid 150$ for the board since I got a bunch of Rev6 060s about a decade ago when they were...50$
Chris I got my Pistorm 1200 today and your video (as always my friend) is invaluable. Thank you.
My Re-Amiga 1200 build has been on hold for about a year until I got my projects backlog caught up. The build will be next on the bench soon this spring and this product came at the right time ! Going to secure one of these Amiga 1200 Pistorm32's right now ! :-) Thanks for a very good rundown of what to expect. I could not ever see the insanity of purchase any 060 accelerator for so much money and the RP solutions just makes sense.
Got my PiStorm32 setup with a Pi4 and overclocked to 2.2Ghz...This turns your A1200 intro a total retro beast!!
Except chipram access is in the toilet making aga games useless
Thanks Doc! I ordered it as soon as I saw it on the Patreon page and I couldn't believe it was so cheap! I just built a TF1260 A1200 and it has great performance but the PiStorm32 is balastic! Thanks for another great reveal/tutorial. Setup should be easy after learning the original PiStorm setup you mentioned ;)
Added to cart, both a 1200 and a 600 version… now the waiting begins!I knew I’d find a great use for my Pi 4’s someday!
Thanks for this video. I just sold my Apollo 1260 80mhz from my towerized Amiga. Preordered Pistorm from MicroMiga from France.. Can't wait.
Appollo 1260 real or the FPGA under the same name. Oh. Towerized. The heat in the trapdoor would kill that A1200. I have a Aca1234 030 @ 50 MHz. 0 room left. FPGAs and RPis don't run hot. New fab process. The author uses TF1230 from I gathered. PiStorm is a toss board. In terms of software compatibility, everything runs with real hardware out of 1000s of games and programs I've used. Sorry, I skipped the ending. I wouldn't risk opening my A1200. It's running right now playing b-17 Flying fortress. I can't get the plane off the ground. I misplaced the original game manual.
Done and done, as usual thanks Chris!
Ordered!
A new nightly build 1 hour ago :) just gets better and better!
No chipram
Speed fixes yet though
@ChrisEdwardsRestoration yes, I'm sure it will come soon. This update he's sped up some code (I don't understand all of his tech speek). An update is an update!
Incredible Chris .. I was really impressed .. I had already seen something on the internet, but with your tests, nothing more to do. It's leaving the A1200 as the fast and powerful friend out there. A hug from a distance, and now you add more than 2 of the best wines from Chile. I hope to go soon to deliver them personally!!!!
wait im getting wine? lol thanks?
See this in the Minimig 1.8, Amazed how the community just improves and hangs on to the systems.
well you can run the traditional pistorm in the minimig1.8, i showed it in my 1.8 minimig video
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration re MMIG 1,8 and pistorm. well the disk speed feels slower and especially with Mac Emulation in CaffeineOS. But once you load the software if you're not using disk access its really fast.
Base A1200 ACA1231 IDE speed is 2.184mbs. IDEFix from Aminet bumps it up to 3.276mbs. Amiga Forever has a key too to remove splash screen.
love your vids and ty for all your information on my addiction.
Still waiting on mine from RetroPassion. I paid £124.98 for it. They should be shipping it out soon. I'll be removing my Blizzard 1230mkIV for the 1st time in years and testing it with a Pi 4B so should be even faster. Great Video Chris. Amiga is still Alive and kicking!!!
remember UK had some issues with shipping due to some hack on Royal Mail, so fedex stuff instead and youll be fine
Wow £125? That’s very expensive compared to mine from AmigaKit at £79. It was turned around and with me in 36 hours. Hope you enjoy it when it arrives 👍🏻
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Yes, Royal Mail strikes are a pain too. Just hope the Retropassion version is a good one as its almost twice the cost.
Great tutorial. I am sure TH-camrs across the pond so to say will watch this tutorial when makin their own vids
Love it! I was waiting for the Vampire slayer but now I’m waiting for my Storm to arrive 👍🤟
Thanks Chris! This looks great but waiting for the CM4 adapter before taking the plunge, plus the CM4 isn't arriving until July but a good sensible pre-pandemic/supply shortage price.
good lord JULY?? its Feb!
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration That's the state of the supply chain and they're made in the UK! Saw some in stock in a store in Holland but more expensive plus the CM4 adapter isn't ready yet!
I have just had my A1200 recapped, ordered myself a PiStorm Lite, Pi 3a+ and a 64gb SD. Funnily enough my old 250mb HD worked (although it did sound like a pneumatic hammer with a short!). Anyway, looking forward to messing about with it all soon.
Awaiting my pistorm32:) Ordered last week from Amigakit :)
Orders pushed back to mid March
Only latest who didnt get the initial in Stock batch, first pre orders for end of month, second pre order slots march
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Ordered on 29. january, hope it soon is being sent :)
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration And then as we spoke i got a mail:
"Your order has been packed and is awaiting despatch
Processed by: Matthew" ;)
Thank you Chris you are the man. Cheers
Added and paid hopefully I am one of the 50 and to be honest I just bought a recapped 1200 motherboard from them for 250$ Canadian they have the best damn prices anywhere
Finally got mine ❤️ I didn’t get a pad for the GPIO though , I’ll have to figure something else out , now to find some spare time
Just bagged a Pistorm form my 1200 so this video has been/will be super useful to me so appreciate you making it. Always informative and fun to watch you stuff! Now I'm no expert, but I was curious as to why there was no disk access speed up with the speed of this thing? I only ask because on my Apollo 1260s and TF1260 when over clocked there is a speed up with them. Like taking my TF1260 from 50mhz, then gradually to 100mhz there is definitely an increase in disk speed. It's not tonnes but it happens. I'd have thought the pistorm speed alone would have seen it go up 1mb or 2.
Nice performance! I have one coming in now. The CHIP RAM thing is 100% NOT fixed. Look at your Terrible Fire results. CHIP RAM is 3.2x the speed of an A600. With piStorm it is 1.5x. it still chokes CHIP RAM, because AGA natively is much faster accessing CHIP RAM than ECS machines
yes its not perfect, but it plays saint dragon just fine. so it should pass your review. ! lol
Chip speed will not reach the likes of Vampire, but it will end up faster than the current results. It is something being worked on. For the first release stability was more important. It should be plenty for most things run on it. Also the water is a bit muddied due to different types of chip accesses working at different speed.
Great and informative video. Just one question, you unplugged your IDE drive to boot Caffeine. Does that mean that Caffeine can't see IDE Amiga drives when it's booted or just there is no boot selector and the system would prioritise your IDE boot drive if it was connected?
Caffeine is a all in one solution boots directly from the type76 partitions of emu68. There is no need for your old slow ide devices
Ordered mine this morning
she took it!
You can now run the entire Amiga catalog no problem.
Excellent Would love one of these for my 1200 bet they are as rare as a raspberry pi
nope you can get it right now
Please don't snap the connector for the camera port off of the Pi. That will be needed for the native video pass-through adapter eventually
That (Merging this and the RGB2HDMI) would make this perfect - Have the HDMI and Ethernet passthrough on the blanking plate at the back and it'd be a seamless upgrade.
Hi Chris, great video as usual. I've ordered a pistorm32-lite myself.
What's the name of the demo that's at 22:00? The one that needs a 100mhz 68060?
Skarla when we ride on our enemies. The other space ship one is elude we come in peace
I've been playing with my PiStorm32-lite for a few days using CaffeineOS 916, very impressive for the 3D demos/games but I'm having graphic corruption problems with all the WHDLoad games I've tried and if start disabling stuff in the WHDLoad pre-game popup it either doesn't fix the problem or runs the game at 25-50% speed 😭. I'll keep experimenting see if I can get my favourites working 100% and share IF I work out anything... 😁
No sharing so far, this is bad news?
@@sbirchsbirch6232 I've been distracted by a lot of stuff (tech & family related) I've tried a few random things with no luck but I think I need to have a few hours methodically changing 1 option at a time... I might try musashi, I'd be happy enough with that level of performance if the WHDLoad stuff worked... If it that does the trick I've seen a guide to dual boot 68kEMU & musashi on the same memory card...
@@shortymtb heh, family shouldn’t be a distraction. THIS is the distraction 😁. Ty for the reply.
Thanks for the video. I just got my PiStorm32-lite and tested it briefly today on my A1200. Very impressive. Also I found the CaffeineOS 797 and have run it on the A1200 now. I am just curious about what steps are needed to get the RTG running?
caffeine is rtg, but all the basic programs are in rbg... to enable rtg on your own builds you need to install picasso96, and config it to point to the pistorm file as it will be its pretend board picasso96 attaches to
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thanks for the reply. The CoffeineOS_797 I got was pretty much a preinstalled image file which I mounted in WinUAE and copied across to my SD card partitions for PiStorm. Then I booted UAE from the SD card partitions and set it to use PAL. It booted right up on the PiStorm, however there was a program named "Finish" in WBStartUp that frooze it. I removed that and now it boots up. The installation already have Picasso96 installed, but I am not sure what you mean by configuring it to point to the pistorm file. What pistorm file are you refering to?
I enjoyed this video! Easy to understand, and great humor. :) This is a tempting piece of hardware. Question.. Is this a fixed 68040 solution, or can you configure it to 68030? If that makes any difference in compatibility with games and demos.. I can't seem to find any info on doing this in the config.txt, which is where I assume you would do it.
you can change the CPUtype in the config files, but it works fine
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thank you, Chris. :) Do you know how it's done? I can't find any info on what commands you can use in config.txt, besides specifying kick.rom.
i cant wait to get one sometime, im just waiting for stuff to calm down with the rush of people buying these
you can get one right now.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration nah ill wait till prices drop as well, i got my tf1260 which i can use for now
drop? Amiga stuff? not in my lifetime, things tend to only go up and up and up
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration the original pistorm dropped significantly so not sure what you mean, before they where $100+ now around $25-35 each, same for the tf1230-tf1260 cards
Have pistorm in my 500 snd have a 1200 one on order. I have little interest in games or running demos but the chip memory is still slow. The 1200 one appeals the 1200 has a hole in the back to put cable through so unlike in my 500 I can have a good chance of putting the lid on.
yes its not perfect and as you , I also am not a gamer but it still needs to be addressed. otherwise its nice!
There clear case made for the A500 has a side cover for the left that has places to connect ethernet, microSD slot extension, and USB I think. There's probably also a printable side cover on thingaverse for it. As for height, if you solder the pistorm onto your pi, you will save some height so you can get your cover on. I'm not sure if you can get more height by putting shorter pins into the pistorm, or the ethernet jack will hit something anyways. Yeah, all of this is still not as nice as the back panel on the A1200 though. I wish someone made a single board sidecar for the A500 with a case that would leave the microSD accessible from the top. That would be really handy. Pi4 for A500 PiStorm would be handy also.
@@IntenseGrid Thanks for giving me some ideas. The Pi and Storm fit nicely. Have a fan in there pointing at the Pi but it never even gets to 40C so not really needed. Think I am just being lazy. Have the RGB2HDMI in there and the Pi with thick cable adaptors for HDMI to DVI for my two screens and really just never got around to treading some flat flex out for the HDMI. The A1200 is more attractive as I have LAN card in the card slot rather than the using the parallel port plipbox on the back of the 500. Now if only the LAN card in the PCMCIA slot would connect more than one time in three...
Just tested the caffeine on an Amiga 500 with PiStorm Rev B. The ChipRam speed was 2,90 or 2,60 or something. I used an PI3-A. Sysinfo speed test gave some 79000 or in that neighbourhood. It is a good release of EMU68.
wow i have a 3b+ and my chipspeed sucks at 1.5, while works AGA games suffer with ghosting or not complete drawn items, and ECS games run slow when alot of objects are on the screen, can you play GODS and have it actually play at normal speed?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I have not tried it yet. As I need to get the image of my A600 hdd transfered first. But there should be this Zebs image floating around. It has a WHD loader and all that jazz. But you might already know that image.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I just checked up again. Amiga500-OCS, 1mb ChipRam, Pistorm rev b and RPI3a+ gives 776,40 mips, 704,13 MFlops, 743794 Dhrystones and 2,70 ChipSpeed....
I used sysinfo 4.0
Hmm im using 4.4 and you saw the results. Might try the pi4 and see if it helps
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I will upload a video, tomorrow evening local time. That is aprox 24 hours from now. (I am in Denmark) And I will see if I can get that Amiga600 HDD image going that I have. And then test again.
Excellent and interesting video, a question that has nothing to do with pi-storm, what do you use to connect with the lcd monitor? :D
i have a native 15khz DELL U2410-F
Had to watch this again. Still want to see side-by-side Pi4 on the Pistorm compared to PiMiga3.
pi4 is so unstable at the moment its almost useless
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Are others having the same trouble? Maybe I'll hold off getting the PiStorm32 until prices go back down, and it is a bit more mature. I've got a 1GB Pi4 waiting for it, but I would rather have the CM4 version that I've seen pictures of.
Pi3b+ is totally fine
@@IntenseGrid seems like a known issue. i mean it works, but then it gets weird the card wont be detected, or notload, or overheat. yet the 3b+ works steady all day long
I think I missed a step here. When you tested just the Pistorm with your existing CF card over built-in IDE, you needed the 500MB Emu68 system but when you tested Caffeine OS, you used the pre-made image blasted onto another SD card. Does it already include a separate partition for the Emu68 stuff? While I do like the idea of these optimized systems, I feel they're way too customized for my liking....just like AmiKit from way back. So if I wanted to build my own AmigaOS system but also take advantage of the faster storage speed, I would just partition the remainder of my SD card that contains the Emu68 boot partition?
caffeine is burn and go, even has roms which i disagree with. but if you build your own you can carve out a large hard drive or two directly on the pistorm sd card, thats how caffeine does it and pimps their os from there.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Should I read up on this Type 76 partition stuff or will I simply be able to see the free space on the microSD from the Amiga OS side?
@@jdryyz if you follow my steps it will show up once created on the amiga os side when you edit the tooltype of hdtoolbox to include the pistorms name of its scsi.device
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Cool beans.
Cool! Nice intro.
I just bought one to test against my Vampire V1200. Are you doing PCMCIA networking on the 1200 until it's (hopefully) enabled on the pistorm?
yes i tested my 3com 3c589 and it works fine, installed My own purchased roadshow as the miami didnt work well with it.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration How about compact flash adapters?
NIce.....Absolutely Nice!
Great video, thanks very useful
Official new Amiga Arm is the future I hope these managers understand.... fast, buy build an Arm Amiga china pcb cost less than 30$ so they cannot make money.
Chris, When I connect with HDMI I get the Emu68 startup screen. Is that something because my A1200 with VGA will load and show no Fast Ram and 020 CPU?
Weird try jiggling the card. Emu68 is loading on the pi side
But not talking to the pistorm board apparently
is there any advantage if your using a high end, all singing dancing Pi, or will a classic model the cheaper (even the one with the missing ports models as long got GPIO HEADER, the better do all the same stuff, or will there speed hit, somewhere?
Pi4 is buggy, i use a zero2w and a 3a and a 3b+. All work fine
Well guess I need one of these for my 1200. Just gotta remortgage the house to get another Pi3.
the 3A+ looks like will be available in a month or so but used market is crazy prices right now
@@f1lupo I missed that sillyness as I bought my last run of Pi’s before prices went crazy. Just dumb luck on my part, but could have sold all of them a few weeks later for double, but didnt.
Chris, if you don't mind my asking, what model of Dell monitor are you using? It looks like a Dell U2211H..?
U2410-F
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong... I've followed the directions in the video all the way through (using plain vanilla PiStorm as an accelerator only, not CaffeineOS), and my Amiga boots as normal but it's like the PiStorm isn't even there, but over on HDMI the PiStorm is at the white boot screen logo. The only thing different is I'm using a 64GB San Disk Ultra sd card but it's partitioned exactly like yours with a 500MB FAT32 partition that I extracted all the files to. I've tried two different Pi3B and they both do the same thing. The only other hardware installed is a Gotek for internal floppy drive, an IDE CF reader (my normal boot hard drive) and an Indivision AGA MkIII scan doubler. All voltages seem fine, a strong 5.1 volts is getting everywhere on the board. Tried different sd cards (with the January firmware) with no success.
if you see the emu68 logo its working. RTG on a self built image wont be there until you install picasso96 and follow the pistorm instructions on how to add RTG, if you want test it with caffeine on hdmi to see whats what. otherwise its a emulated 040 w ram
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thank you! I carefully replaced the incorrect 40 pin connector on the PiStorm with the proper connector and now all is running as it should, thank goodness. I'm just a little slower than you as I'm running a 3B and not a 3B+, and I think I need the proper cpu libraries for the 040 since I'm getting a crash running ShowConfig. Otherwise, the speed of this thing kicks ass!
@@LeftoverBeefcake thanks for the speed info on the Rpi3B as that is all I have here to use.
Having issues with my pistorm and pi 3B. Followed the instructions a few times, tried a couple of different SD cards. Used tools in Amiga Forever to create the kick.rom file. I get an emu68 screen from the pi hdmi, but a flashing green screen from the amiga output (which I think means chip ram?). If I take the the sdcard out of the pi, the amiga boots off floppy with no issues.
Tried two different Pi 3Bs now and same problem. Not finding much so far in the way of trouble shooting guides. I may be able to get hold of another a1200 to test it on.
Are there any troubleshooting guides out there?
ah hah, easy, there is a issue with the version of the firmware, when you go to the nightly builds, roll back to the 15th Jan 2023 and use that one, it will work fine.
i opened a github ticket for this exact issue and others are having the problem, pistorm team has acknowledged this
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Excellent, thank you. I picked up the latest but sounds like they are still working on it. I used the 15th Jan files and all working ok now.
I notice chip mem speed is almost twice as slow compared to the tf1230 benchmarks. Do you notice this at all?
Yea bit its still better than the 0.6 to 0.8 of the first one. It will effect aga games with ghosting but should not cause major issues
There are others building and selling the Pistorm32s and are shipping now not on Feb 20th.... And Given the issues with builds coming from LCSC thats a good thing.
give me some links and i will post them too
why do my comments keep disappearing
@eugenios2006 i see them
are there others? it could be youtubes filtering service, spell them out like google dot com and whatever
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration my links keep disappearing is it because im not in the Amiga Global Alliance :)
hahahahaha
Got mine running an hour after receiving card. I installed a Pi 3A but memory shows around 370 meg not the huge amount Chris has. Still a lot but wondering why. Not using RtG, booting of 1200s drive
configure your ram in the pistorm config file on the fat32 partition
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration thanks Chris
The only thing I don't like about this is having to have a separate screen for RTG. Maybe something can be done later externally to combine the signals? Ordered anyway.
They are working on a clockport solution
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Nice. I figured someone would likely have something up their sleeve. Hopefully keycaps and case badges will finally materialise and my 1200 can finally get the love it deserves
Hi Chris. Amazing video. One question: What DELL monitor model do you have on your right, connected to the amiga 1200? Thanks in advance
Dell u2410-f. Does 15 khz native, they both are the same monitors. love them
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Thanks a lot Chris...
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Does it stretch the Signal to Wide-Screen. Can you set the ratio to 4:3 from the OSD?
@@antiriad yes you can do native, stretch or fill on any hookup, it honestly the best monitor ive ever owned, 2 dv1, hdmi, component, composide, vga, svid, usb, card reader, audio pass through, and more. its incredible, best part they are NOT NEW so you can get them like i did as low as 65$ with a stand shipped
@Chris Edwards Restoration Great. I think I will get one of these. I Can find it for fairly cheap. Doesn't it need buffered or un-buffered DB23 Video Adapter?
Chris do you have any idea what power requirements are needed to run the pistorm32 lite? I have a meanwell RT50B coming but I also have an A500 heavy ps ? I am wondering what is enough, thanks
Rpi4 is 5 volts. I think your good
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I was more wondering about Amps as I read a pi can take 3 amps @5 volts , and running my pi3b and Pimiga with a 2.5 amp wall wart always produces a lightning bolt on screen
@@glennbojones777 wow my original power adaptor is 4amp. the 400 here in the usa is the same. idk, my pi3b works fine in it no issues, i had numerous problems with the model4 in it
Me looking at my Blizzard 1230/50 with scsi card 🤨 placed an order for one 😁. What kind of video output do you get? Didn’t appear to go too deep into that.
base mode is normal amiga video, Caffeine RTG mode is in 1080p, but you can go as high as you want, these old eyes i keep it in the i can barely see them icons mode.
Shoutout from a fellow VGG fan.
What is vgg fan? i run noctua or cheap chinese ones
Very cool, theoretically you can run PiMIGA on it too I guess.
with some tweaks
^This. I need pimiga on the pistorm. CaffeineOS is nice, but Pimiga3 is a killer app.
@@drphilxr you would have to do some work with it and the host run stuff would not work, but you could extract the partitions and move them to matching type76 partition disks and boot it
Thanks for the video, well my wallet might not be ;), been waiting a while for these.
I need to buy a Pi for this, so I’m looking at a Pi4. Am I correct in presuming there’s no tangible benefit to getting a 2GB+ over the 1GB?
ram on the amiga side is it. and maybe a few horseponies.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration What is the maximum amount of memory you use on your Amigas?
1gb
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration What do you run that would use that much memory? AmigaDOS handles it just fine?
Who knows it can handle it and its there so why not
Thanks for the link to the coffin on archives. (yeah, yeah... I know it would sound strange in a morgue) ;-)
I have been looking for a link, but google was not my friend (that f'ing "traitor"), so now I will test it out in my PiStorm that I have in an Amiga500. One question though. Does this coffin need a kickstart file? Or can I run it with a real kickstart chip onboard?
its caffeine not coffin, Caffeine like the stuff in coffee or cola or whatever .. it will work on your real amiga, i think it has a 3.9 hagge and partner rom in it modified for caffeine. so it just boots.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Sorry for the mixup of words. It was after midnight that I commented here, so I must have been totally busted. 😔
Is there any hope that this can be expanded to get passthrough native Amiga video in the future...? This is one of the most annoying things with the Vampire compared to my big box Amigas like the A4000 with PicassoIV and so on....
there in works for camera port usage for amiga native video so a single hdmi solution, there is another way currently if you have something like a aga scan plus or indivision, you can put the hdmi outputs on a switch box and have it autoswitch. not perfect and lots of cables but works.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Cool! Wonder if this cameraport solution will introduce som kind of input lag.. and I guess they will need to get the video signal directly from the chipset like the indivision does?
hey, thanks for the video. Do you know of a way in making the out just RGB? When trying to run other things it wants to jump to the hdmi of the pi?
Pistorm emu68 team is working on a single hdmi solution
Interesting. My A1200 is sitting on top of the piano doing nothing. I have got a R-pi, also doing nothing. I have got an R-pi 3. I shall have to check if it is a 3B! Thanks for uploading .
can be a 3A, zerow, zero2w, 3b, 4 or 4b
My R-Pi is a 3B. So if that's what you have been testing, then it has to be thing. I think you must be a Time Lord from Gallifrey who travelled by Tardis to Amiga Kit, as their web site says, "Coming soon, 28th February".
Next batch is now 28th feb. Originally they were only 100 avail. They sell fast when i review things
Well done man. Do you have a Pi4 to put in there? How about net & USB? Is there a Mushashi to support those things?
I do but its currently running my PiMiga3 build and thats way better than this. Maybe ill win the lotto and can get another rpi4. Lol
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Would love to see a video on that comparison. Apples to apples that is. With Pi4 in the PiStorm32-lite and a Pi400 for Pimiga3 both running the same filesystems.
Hi Chris, first let me thank you for keeping us properly updated.
I recently got my PiStorm 32 Lite and I'm now trying to make it boot without success. I'm using it with a Pi 3A+ and whenever I try to boot Emu 68 all I got is the Emu68 splash Screen from the Pi and a blinking white screen from the amiga and the amiga green light keeps blinking. No CF installed.
Any ideas? Thx in advance.
Did you copy a 1200 rom and rename it kick.rom?
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration yes, and tried a bunch of different roms also.
make sure you use the jan 15th build of th e
pistorm, the newer ones have a green screen issue.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration that's exactly the build I'm using. I guess I'll have to troubleshoot either my amiga, the storm or the pi.
Thx
Hello! Thanks for the video! Can the USB and the network card be made to work?
I dont control the pistorm teams progress. I would ask there. im sure one day.
which type of 32GB micro-SD card to get for PiStorm32-lite?
MicroSD, any class you want, faster is better always, but for this test im just using a sandisk 32gb ultra
Hi, Please can you help. I installed PIstorm 68, I get just the grey screen showing emu68 0.11.4 INFO below. It will not load up. I think you mentioned something about RTG? I do not have a cf card installed. I can see workbench on other screen displaying 3.1. So its stuck on 68 Pistorm in grey screen. Please can you help? Thanks
Do you have a workbench install? Emu68 is working and workbench rom is working apparently… unless you built your own you will see what you see.
So now that Emu68 is working on the Pi4, can we put Pi4's in our A500's and A600?
its working with the 32b pistorm code, idk about the orig ones but prob soon?
I have seen some one reaching speeds of upto 1800 MIPS in sysinfo 4.4. I wonder if there is one available for A4000 too?
Not yet
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Chris you are doing a great job for Amiga community all over the globe. You will be amazed to know that I am not from USA or Europe, am rather from South Asia, so you can imagine how far deep this computer had reached other countries all over the world in the past therefore Amiga wasn't an ordinary computer. I wish this platform gets truly resurrected as it was before and with full backwards compatibility like the PC is today.
Is it possible tot creatie a pimiga 2 or 3 image for the pistorm32?
It is possible
Holly smokes. Do I smell a Vampire killer here? I was very hesitant to get an ICE Drake 1200 for 450$+ but jumped right on this one. I don't understand what "lite" means in the Pistorm32 means. Is there supposed to be another version?
Wow 450$!!! This was 67$
@@ChrisEdwardsRestorationIt seems they also raised the IceDrake V4 to 500...Euros (600 with VAT). A few years ago when I got the Vampire V2 for my A500 they even charged me for VAT (Where they Shouldn't). I could spend $250 on AmigaKIT for a refurb A1200 motherboard for my spare A1200 case/keyboard and will still not be close. Retropaassion sells the Pistorm32 1200 for 120 UK Pounds. This is a hell of a good deal from Amigakit.
Indeed it is hence why i did the video!
Lite means there will be an add on board to carry a CM4 and NVME drive.
The original PiStorm32 development was for a board to directly take a Pi Compute Module 4 with connectors for various CM4 features. Due to the reduced availability of PI boards the lite version was designed to take the wider range of boards with the 40 pin header. An adapter will allow a CM4 to be used with the lite version.
where can find CaffeineOS verzion 13/1/23 ? in the ling has only the last who has problem to boot in my amiga1200 pistorme32 with raspberry pi 4B ,thx!
all in the description
17:57 So this would still be compatible (RGB 23pin) with a Genlock, DCTV and native AGA but still use the PiStorm CPU/RAM speed?!
yes it all works so far, pi3 series for the best compatibility, i have another with a pi4 and have had nothing but issues with it. flakey little things that dont work or video that gets weird. you dont have to use HDMI and it wont work native until you install picasso and set it up if your building your own, caffeine is just set for hdmi with rgb for its 15khz programs out the rgb port
Can you boot from an Amiga type 76 partition on the Pi SD card?
Yea
Hi chris, i have the same monitor as you, the dell 2410f but my image its worse than yours. How you connect the vga cable? throught a buffered RGB adaptor?
And the compatibility for amiga 1200 AGA and OCS/ECS games? its good? Or we lost Those things?
This Pistorm look good but i feel COMMODORE AMIGA 1200 lost his SOUL hehehehe.
Thanks.
Yes through a buffered db23 to dsub15 adaptor
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration my image have vertical difused lines and is blurry. What monitor driver you use in devices?
Im use DblPAL.
Thanks Chris.
@@djwaveshark i am running ntsc machines on my ntsc monitor, when i DO run a pal amiga on my ntsc monitor in PAl high res or even standard, i have jailbars... even with my buffered display, but if i hook it up to a pal converted power monitor it works fine.
@@djwaveshark I initially used an Amiga Video -> VGA adapter, double buffered, and had jail bars. Purchased an external Medusa scan-doubler box which goes Amiga Video -> SCART (to Medusa) and then DVI-I -> HDMI on a 27" Dell and the display is jaw-dropping. This Dell supports 15-31Khz and 50-72Hz and 5:4.
Also, you'll lose compatibility of about 40% of games. Some of these can be fixed with cache entries in the .ini file but the list of incompatible titles is glaringly large. Ideally, only go PiStorm if you're interested in desktop/RTG productivity. Even there, it crashes in unexpected places. The project as a whole needs a lot of work, which will only continue so long as demand persists. The Vampire was the better choice, but expensive and appears to have been discontinued.
alot of work to get this running. But was amazing speed.
not too bad . takes like 20 mins for a basic setup. all of this 22 minutes of actual video minus intros and outros and fluff was not bad at all, if you have smaller fingers and a faster pc than my old 2016 one, you can make it even faster.
Most of the setup is covered in Doc's tutorial on the PiStorm setup. I just got back into Amiga OS and it wasn't too difficult or time consuming until I went for the RTG setup. I never owned an RTG card back in the day so I was pretty lost at first.
0:01...NOPE!
April 1993 Amiga 1200 stil running! (A clock' 6MB fastRAM and a CF-card)
^Yellow and slow = How I roll ;-D
In your opinion, should I get this or a TF1260?
Its your wallet
Was anyone able to see any stock left when they ordered? I think when I ordered it said back ordered until end of February (0 Stock).
£79.99 (IUNCLUDES VAT)
Pre-order this product to secure it now. It will be in stock on Tuesday 28 February, 2023...
I think i will stick to my LC060 TF card. My A500 pistorm is enough alternative experience for me.
Its in stock till it says no stock 100 were avail and more by 28th get your spot or it will go to sold out then. Thats that
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I am OK with this as long as I don't have to wait for 1Year plus like the Mega65
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration you twisted my arm, so i did
Does this also require new kickstart ROM chips installed on the Amiga 1200 motherboard? I currently have 3.0 chips. Cheers.
you map a rom in the boot partition of the pistorm, it doesnt matter what roms you have in it. you can however long ctrl amiga amiga reset and boot into a rom mode. take a look at the amiga.org wiki link in the description, it tells you how to do everything that i explained in this video
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Cheers, just ordered it.
I have an amiga 1200 with 8mb fast naked. Is it worth buying for the amiga? What speed does SysInfo show? Can you connect the image via HDMI?
Did you watch the video? I covered everything in chapters.
Do you happen to have the names or links to the demos you played? I really want to test my 060 first before i get my pistorm
Yeah i told you what they were in the video. Demozoo dot org you can dl them
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration dont think you mention anything for 22:00
@@DatBlueHusky Skarla when we ride on our enemies, it was on the screen 22:29 ... We come in peace by
Elude was the other
Hello,
Anyone know how to expand the file system
Its in the readme
Can someone.please explain when using a PI accelerator ( which one doesnt matter ) , how about to use the ports like HDMI, USB, ETHERNET? , is there a board like the omniport for the Pi, or do we need to beeing creative again and use rare methods?
hdmi is implemented as the RTG modes, you will still need a 15khz capable monitor for amiga native video programs, USB and ethernet and wifi are not implemented at this time.
all i get is a blue screen, or blinking green screen depending on the version of the 32Lite build, the hdmi always shows she emu screen but the normal amiga screen wont show me the kickstart
Great.... now to find a RPi to put on these cards....
Ebooger
I've seen 3 videos on the pistorm and all of them use this CaffeineOS instead of Workbench. Is that required in order to output to HDMI? Can you not use the Pistorm with workbench?
Nope caffeine is not required. You can use your own workbench. Caffeine is just a premade OS with a bunch of stuff on it for the storm.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration ty! So if I use a pistorm with workbench, can it still output to HDMI and access the hard drive and rtg card etc?
@Nyphur if you setup its rtg drivers yes
I put a Pi4 in mine and its unstable but even faster
I am having an issue that when I just boot up the pistorm 32 lite with the latest build mar10, in sysinfo it only shows as a 68ec020 but I have the 1.9 gigs of ram
have you tried a older build, there used to be a cpu line at the top of the Config file.
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration thanks a bunch Chris I’ll try when I get home from work time to put the pi3 back in lol
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration I did manage to get Caffeine OS 917 running great , and when I use sysinfo 4.3 the chip speed says “4 times an A600 “ , hopefully this means it’s sorted out?! Anyway thanks for the help.
@@glennbojones777 eh not exactly, but hit is getting worked on
25:20 yes thats pi drive speed. not amiga. now u r using pi with amiga keyboard and mouse
Hello,
do you know if there's something for the Amiga 4000 ?
In the works
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration Hope to see something for my A4k soon...
How is the performance compared to the vampire1200? And why is it called «lite» ?
Dont know my v1200 is still in its box lol
@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration lol 😂
A3/4000 version needed.
its coming
New Amiga 3/4000s needed, along with new 68K CPUs, all using modern memory, PCI-E slots and fast storage options. But PiStorm will have to suffice for the time being. 😁
Wouldn't the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 be a better fit on the pistorm32 ?
there is adapter for it being worked on.
@@Promilus1984 Great, I will wait for that now. Thanks
well yes, but at the moment it's basically unobtainium so for now the focus in more on the lite version
@@anakuron so what IS the difference between lite version available now compared to what is coming with the CM4 connector?
@@IntenseGrid I don't know what it is going to be but the main difference atm is that CM4 would be cheaper to buy as a new if it would be available, and it has option for onboard storage as well. The adapter could be more slim and a bit more plug & play but of course all of the ports have to be added to the pistorm PCB which adds some cost. I don't know if there's plans to add something like m.2 ssd slot or any other stuff that would make it way better than the lite version but in my opinion it's not very likely to have big differences since the biggest selling point of pistorm is that it's open and it's a cheap way to get a good accelerator on your amiga