BlueScsi, Ram and the power supply Its The GVP HD8 Revisited!
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- The GVP HD8 is a great little upgrade to the Amiga 500(+)
but there are a few upgrades that could make it even better!
So lets see how well the BlueSCSI works and along the way upgrade the ram and attempt something else!
#amiga #hd8+ #bluescsi 
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Recent finder and subscriber of the channel and I am really enjoying your old and new Amiga vids. Thanks.
Amazing, I've got that exact GVP unit (sans the hard drive), I've got a BlueSCSI, and the power supply blew up so it needs powering from the expansion slot. This is literally the best video I could have seen to help me do all those things.
Awesome, happy I could help.
The bluescsi will need some finessing right now but with a bit of trial and error you should get it to work
Awesome work :) Great seeing the Amiga working with the BLUESCSI
Thanks. Good informational video. Sent it to a friend who bought my GVP HD from me and will be doing similar.
Nice work! Thanks for sharing these details.
No problem, it was a fun project and hopefully its useful for others.
You legend. Bought a bluescsi recently to try getting it to work on my HD8 but with little luck. Thank you
I do love those GVP drives, I loved their kit. I have an A530 which was a great bit of kit.
Awesom! An affordable solution. Great video, thanks but did you know you left 3 minutes of nothing on the end? I hope you’re well again & back in the swing of things?
Feeling better thanks, just this video had so many issues. It was meant to be the second video of the month not the last! and thanks for pointing out the dead 3 mins, got YT trimming it now. Not sure what happened there.
@@GouldFishOnGames I've had that happen when a sound file or something extended to the right, or I'd put a clip of a bit of video OVER THERE to get it out of the way and then forgotten it, so a 5 minute video becomes a 40 minute video with 5 minutes, 30 minutes of nothing, then 5 minutes of crap!
Great video! Is your modified firmware available anywhere? I understand it may or may not work with specific SD cards. I am using a GVP myself here.
The firmware has changed quite a bit since I made the video.
So it would be worth trying the latest if that doesn't work then you can find the rough area of the code and put the wait in.
But I have been told that to get proper SCSI2 comparability a hardware revision is needed.
Erm...whoooosssshh. Nah you lost me. 😂
I was wondering do you know any website that contains a list of all Amiga games with their frames per second? Would be very useful to have.
Not that I know of, as I guess it might also be different depending on if its an A500 or 1200 or updated with fast ram, etc.
@@GouldFishOnGames Thanks for replying. I know WinUAE has the option of seeing for each when trying but wondered if there was a list since games ranged from 50fps to something like 15-20fps. 🤔
I need with the GVP, i put inside to many scsi HD drives and no detect any. Also add a iomega zip scsi back conector detected as a scsi but not the disk on it. JP2 jumper what the correct place I don't found on the manual!!!
Is the power mod something that other sidecar drives can do? Or is it only GVP?
I think some of the other sidecars had this option, as I spotted a few articles and posts mentioning others when I was looking it up for the GVP. Its just this is the only one I have so its the only one I can say I can do.
@@GouldFishOnGames Thanks for the reply. I have looked at the PCB of my drive, and I see no solderpads for anything power-mod related. The manual say nothing as well. I got my drive without the PSU, so I might have to build my own. Anyway. I have just created a topic on Amibay, asking about what my options might be.
using a dataflyer external A500 SCSI unit, but get an error detecting SCSI drives. Where and how did you change the timeout value?
at around 7:18 in the video I showed where I added in the time out.
if you look for where it has the line:
LOG("Command:");
that was around where the timeout should be added. I've not had the time to work much on the project recently so not sure how much has changed.
This will require some trial and error to get right and you might get more help from the BlueScsi discord server.
@@GouldFishOnGames . Thanks! not sure if i understand how to change the value and compile a new image to flash. would you be able to share your image file you flashed?
@@denniskrijnen5586 Back when I was first working on this I shared the updated firmware with a few people and each person found that the timeout wasn't correct for them. As it changed based on card, format and Scsi controller. Which is why I said there would be some trial and error. I followed the this guide:
github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI/wiki/Flashing
and it has a youtube video on setting up the enviornment.
Hello, code seems different on last firmware update 1.1a, could you please help us with your skills ;) ? Many thanks
I've not looked at the source code for a little while, as things keep coming up and taking up my free time.
but I did read in their discord that they were looking at putting in a variable wait that you could change from a config file.
I'm not sure if they ever did, if not then finding the right area of code to insert it shouldn't be too hard.
If you need more help then the "Open Retro SCSI", Discord would be the best place to ask.
@@GouldFishOnGames ok thanks ;)
next upgrade: guru rom
That is something I seen mentioned a few times, but didn't look into too much.
There seemed to be talk of better compatibility and it might be faster, but wasn't sure how much of an improvement it would be.
@@GouldFishOnGames It natively supports trackdisk 64 (TD64) for larger than 4gb disks - without having to use the direct-scsi workaround. It offers better (=working) support for scsi disconnect (most often used by cd-roms, and zip-disks), some speed improvements depending on the specific setup - in general less buggy and just "better"