Natami - Update

[Harrison]

Cool. What happened to the ColdFire based board for the Amiga? It sort of never arrived after they showed off the test board.

[Buleste]

The first NatAMI baseboard is up and running. Go here for lots of whooping and techy speak.

[Tiago]

any more news from Natami? Long time i don't see any news...
Is the project running?

[Buleste]

I've just had a look at the Evaluation Baseboard Bringup thread on the Natami page and whilst there is no major news at the moment, development is ongoing to getting the evaluation board running properly. As you can imagine getting the board designed and built was the first major hurdle. Now getting all the chips running together and the software working. It's a long and winding road.

[Buleste]

This is the latest news on what is working on the baseboard and what is not.

SyncZorro Interface ... preliminary (PCI) version
Copper ................ fully implemented
Video DMA ............. fully implemented
256 colour regiters ... fully implemented
Video priority ........ half implemented
Scandoubler ........... fully implemented
Audio DMA ............. o
VGA out ............... working
DVI out ............... o
PCI ................... o
IDE ................... o

[Harrison]

Great to see work is still continuing with the project. Lets hope it gets finished this year.

[Buleste]

I would imagine the baseboard and 060 evaluation boards will be done by the end of the year but the code for the custom CPU will take a bit longer.

[Phantom]

Good to see progress. Ah my lovely money.... (X1000, Natami....)

[Buleste]

Another quick update although fairly important.

It is now possible to move the mouse pointer (from the last picture) now with a real Amiga mouse. For that Interrupts are working correctly and the CIAs are now fully implemented. It also means that the serial I/O CPLD is also working correctly. So all I/O ports are available now to the system.



Frame generation ...... ECS, fixed 28MHz pixel clock
SyncZorro Interface ... preliminary version
Copper ................ fully implemented
Video DMA ............. fully implemented
256 color registers ... fully implemented
Sprites ............... 16bit linebuffer
blitter ............... o
Video priority ........ half implemented
Scandoubler ........... fully implemented
(new) Interrupts ............ fully implemented
Paula DMA control ..... fully implemented
Audio out ............. o
VGA out ............... working
DVI out ............... o
PCI ................... o
IDE ................... o
(new) CIAs .................. fully implemented
Disk DMA .............. o
Serial Port DMA ....... o
(new) Slow peripheral I/O ... fully implemented
(Joy/Mouse/Keyb/PRT/DSK/SER)
Fast RAM controller ... o
Kickstart flash logic . o
15k Video out ......... o
15k Video in .......... o
Audio in .............. o

[Harrison]

Nice. It's progressing much faster now.