Need your opinion regarding GR8NET capabilities | MSX Resource Center (Pagina 37/58)

Paragon (1232)

23-12-2016, 16:20

gdx wrote:

Great news but the calculation of the free memory on the disk is really too long! Is it possible for you to use the internal Mathpac to accelerate this calculation? This would make this news even greater.

Edo said that there's a tool called ALLOC (I see RALLOC in Nextor's manual, see 3.4.6).
I am not skilled in DOS2 and did not know it. Time to learn something new :)

Victor wrote:

So... Now GR8NET works as an slot expander... the same way as MegaflashROM SD....

I design what is proposed, and what we think is natural way for expansion.

Van Louthrax

Prophet (2496)

23-12-2016, 16:54

Eugeny_Brychkov wrote:

Nextor with GR8NET! Video

This is THE thing I was waiting for :)

Van Victor

Champion (509)

24-12-2016, 08:08

After some tests these are my resluts:

- The Nextor SYSTEM works correctly with the SD
- EMUFILE doesn't work with GR8NET. It create the "disk image info file" but doesn't execute the game
- You can combinate MegaflashROM SD and GR8NET in the other slot. Except for EMUFILE.... even from the MegaflashROM SD Card...

- For launch ROMs from SD you can use this app: GR8FL.COM
- For launch DSKs you can use (till a new version of Sofarun) the SRI.COM from Sofarun

Van Prodatron

Paragon (1857)

24-12-2016, 15:45

Great news, this was the last big feature what was missing for this fantastic hardware!

gdx wrote:

the calculation of the free memory on the disk is really too long! Is it possible for you to use the internal Mathpac to accelerate this calculation?

I am not sure which version of Nextor Eugeny is using in the video. It shows "2.01", does it mean it's Nextor 2.0.1 or Nextor 2.1?
Since Nextor 2.0.3 the speed of the calculation of the free disc space on FAT16 volumes has been increased, see here:
https://www.msx.org/news/en/nextor-203-released

Konamiman wrote:

The code that calculates the free space on a FAT16 volume has been rewritten from scratch, and is much faster than in previous versions. In the worst case (64K clusters, corresponding to a 1G, 2G or 4G volume) it takes about 4 seconds to calculate the free space for a Z80, and about just one second for a R800 (assuming a fast device such as a multimedia card).

So if Eugeny is using 2.0.1 it would explain the slow calculation and can be improved a lot only by using a newer Nextor version.

Van KdL

Paragon (1485)

26-12-2016, 00:00

Hi. It would be wonderful to implement a network printer driver for the GR8NET.

Van Grauw

Ascended (10821)

26-12-2016, 13:52

Great news!

Is GR8NET support implemented as a Nextor driver or is it relying on the legacy disk ROM compatibility?

Are you considering Internestor TCP/IP UNAPI support as well?

Van enribar

Paragon (1224)

26-12-2016, 20:53

I always use ralloc when accessing a volume with MFR.
The command I launch is:
RALLOC B: ON
This avoid the precise calculation of the free disk space.

Van enribar

Paragon (1224)

27-12-2016, 18:26

Sorry I lost some pieces, so... what I have to do?
1) MFR in slot1
2) GR8NET in slot2
1)+2) work?
3) only GR8NET in slot1/2, but where to put Nextor? Into the SD card and then use that basic command with (24)? Is there another way? (ex autoboot of Nextor to avoid to digit the basic command, for ex with callnetsave...)
4) any chance to boot SymbOS from the GR8NET's SD? Where to download a ready made package for this?

Van Victor

Champion (509)

27-12-2016, 21:41

enribar wrote:

Sorry I lost some pieces, so... what I have to do?
1) MFR in slot1
2) GR8NET in slot2
1)+2) work?

Yes, that works.

enribar wrote:

3) only GR8NET in slot1/2, but where to put Nextor? Into the SD card and then use that basic command with (24)? Is there another way? (ex autoboot of Nextor to avoid to digit the basic command, for ex with callnetsave...)

The best you can do from BASIC:

_NETTGTMAP(24)
_NETSAVE

enribar wrote:

4) any chance to boot SymbOS from the GR8NET's SD? Where to download a ready made package for this?

I don't have tested SymbOS from GR8NET SD...

Van luppie

Paladin (869)

07-01-2017, 23:23

For the GR8NET users that needs an USB Blaster to update the FPGA, I can confirm that the USB Blaster rev c Clone works with the Altera Software and the GR8NET. It's available on ebay for prices € 3,09 ~ € 5,23

Just look for this version:

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