Ransom Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Thanks for keeping us informed, Sebastian and Jon. I understand that stuff happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Heck, this stuff has been moving too quickly in the first place 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Thanks for the update guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Appreciate the info! Definitely worth the wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack58 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Candle you can put me on the list of pre-order. 1 card. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Heh... how typical is this. Spent two hours waiting for Xilinx design tools to install on an archaic PC belonging to my wife's uncle which - of course - happened to have a working LPT port, flashed the JED file to the Incognito board, and then five minutes later the LPT port for the new PC dropped onto the doormat. Anyway - it's done, so I'll test the button functionality today and if all is well, the boards can ship out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Heh... how typical is this. Spent two hours waiting for Xilinx design tools to install on an archaic PC belonging to my wife's uncle which - of course - happened to have a working LPT port, flashed the JED file to the Incognito board, and then five minutes later the LPT port for the new PC dropped onto the doormat. Anyway - it's done, so I'll test the button functionality today and if all is well, the boards can ship out. flashjazzcat, aka port killa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FastRobPlus Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Maybe Incognito requires a the electronic equivalent of a blood sacrifice. One PC clone parallel port for each working board produced? Incognito is sort of a black magic device if you think about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 (edited) To be clear, I meant the parallel port for the new PC arrived on the doormat courtesy of the postman. This appeared to have rendered the effort of the previous two hours unnecessary; however, I can't get the JTAG cable to work with the PCI bracket on the new machine yet, so it seems using that old PC was time well invested after all. Edited October 12, 2012 by flashjazzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 spiflash, at least most of it, should be online now google and stopbadware.org cleared their warnings 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sooty Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hi there New to the forum. Would I be to late to get one of these? Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 To be clear, I meant the parallel port for the new PC arrived on the doormat courtesy of the postman. This appeared to have rendered the effort of the previous two hours unnecessary; however, I can't get the JTAG cable to work with the PCI bracket on the new machine yet, so it seems using that old PC was time well invested after all. What is the Jtage cable used for ? is that something we need for the incognito board ? and do we need a PC parallel port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 What is the Jtage cable used for ? is that something we need for the incognito board ? and do we need a PC parallel port? It's used to update the Xilinx chip firmware on the board, and is (hopefully) something that only beta-testers and software developers like me will ever have to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 It's used to update the Xilinx chip firmware on the board, and is (hopefully) something that only beta-testers and software developers like me will ever have to do. I'm still waiting for instructions (or link to) to build a JTag cable so I can upgrade my old U1MB firmware to the new U1MB firmware Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 hI'm still waiting for instructions (or link to) to build a JTag cable so I can upgrade my old U1MB firmware to the new U1MB firmware Robert Which programmer do you have, USB or Parallel Port? A pic would help 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Which programmer do you have, USB or Parallel Port? A pic would help From what I understood the JTAG cable FJC is talking about is just a cable connecting to the parallel port. So no programmer needed, just a PC with parallel port. But when searching on the internet I see many variants of a JTAG cable and I don't know which one is needed for the U1MB. So a pointer to the required cable and programmnig software would be appreciated . I have a cheap USB Genius G540 eprom/flash/avr/pic/pal programmer but that does not support JTAG devices. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 Robert, what you would need for u1mb upgrade is jtag cable called "xilinx download cable" and these are available in two flawours - one is lpt and obsolete, but it is cheap and does it job well, and the other is pretty expensive and usb based but best would be to discuss it in separate thread to prevent users of being confused Sebastian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 (edited) I'm still waiting for instructions (or link to) to build a JTag cable so I can upgrade my old U1MB firmware to the new U1MB firmware I wrote instructions for the flashing process and sent them to Sebastian some time ago for approval. I think a couple of minor revisions were required. All that's needed are the LPT cable building instructions adding on. I tend to agree, though, that we need a separate thread for this. Edited October 25, 2012 by flashjazzcat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvas Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 It must be the same as in the case of the CT60: http://nokturnal.pl/home/atari_16_32_bit/ct60_firmware_upgrade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I'm still waiting for instructions (or link to) to build a JTag cable so I can upgrade my old U1MB firmware to the new U1MB firmware Robert But ehm... to feed the confusion a bit more... why do you want to do that this way? The firmware itself can be flashed from atari without the need of any cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+rdemming Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 But ehm... to feed the confusion a bit more... why do you want to do that this way? The firmware itself can be flashed from atari without the need of any cable. Hi Marius, It is not the U1MB flash chip with the firmware (software) for the Atari I'm talking about. There are two types of firmware in the U1MB: The flash memory chips contain the firmware (software) used by the Atari computer. This one can be programmed in system and is the one you are talking about. The Xilinx chip contains the programmable logic firmware which ties the components (flash, Atari, ram, etc) together at a hardware level. This is the firmware I'm talking about. This can only be updated by a JTAG cable and not in system. The same is true for the Incognito board which also contains these two kinds of firmware. In case of the U1MB, the latests U1MB batch has updated programmable logic in the Xilinx chip to make it possible to use the SIDE card as a PBI device. The old version of U1MB can also be updated with the new logic but this requires an update of both the Xilinx chip firmware and the Atari firmware. Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Ah yes... you are right. I already forgot about the first batch indeed. Sorry for the confusion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack58 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Hello someone in the forum can 'help me how to buy a card incognito. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Hello someone in the forum can 'help me how to buy a card incognito. We are all waiting for a ship date, last count he had a few left, Send and email to candle and that would be your best and fastest time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
candle Posted October 29, 2012 Author Share Posted October 29, 2012 the reason i'm not responding to any incognito buy request is i don't have the time for my hobby right now, and i belive it would be unfair to just take the money and put yet another person on wait what was the reason for preorder thread was to be able to buy components in bulk quantities, so the final price could be met, but right now it would be simply unfair and pointless current status is, that bios code stable and running flawlessly, the same goes for Jon's PBI driver (i belive, right Jon?), so all i really need is to get some free time i could spend testing these boards and shipping them out there are two or three days of intensive work ahead, and then i'll have that time - all i can promise right now it's just that it won't take much longer, but right now, i must do what puts food inside my family's mouths Sebastian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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