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    From Tanausu M.@39:190/101 to All on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 20:37:24
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    Hi. Is there anyone here who has Pistorm?

    I was curious to know how it performs with a Pi3 or 4. Apparently, they're working on the PPC part, and maybe it's time to put the PPC 603 away.
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  • From Stephen Walsh@39:901/281 to Tanausu M. on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 08:48:23
    Hi Tanausu,

    On Tuesday November 18 2025, Tanausu M. said to All:

    Hi. Is there anyone here who has Pistorm?

    Yes.

    I was curious to know how it performs with a Pi3 or 4. Apparently,
    they're working on the PPC part, and maybe it's time to put the PPC 603 away.

    I would go with a Pi4 2Gb ram unit. With the recent emu86 improvements it's become a great product. Using the emu68 image software makes it even better, and takes away the manual work.

    Mine is a CM4 unit (have also used a standard pi), and it's on a carrier
    board. That board then has a expansion connection to USB/HDMI/Network
    (HDMI works), havn't gotten the network side to work yet.

    Seeing my A1200 with 1.8gb of fast ram is wild for a machine from it's time period.


    -- Stephen --

    Rocking Amiganet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.


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  • From Tanausu M.@39:190/101 to Stephen Walsh on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 13:50:50
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    19.1.7
    Re: Re: PiStorm
    By: Stephen Walsh to Tanausu M. on Wed Nov 19 2025 08:48:23

    Hi Tanausu,

    On Tuesday November 18 2025, Tanausu M. said to All:

    Hi. Is there anyone here who has Pistorm?

    Yes.

    I was curious to know how it performs with a Pi3 or 4. Apparently, they're working on the PPC part, and maybe it's time to put the PPC
    603 away.

    I would go with a Pi4 2Gb ram unit. With the recent emu86 improvements i become a great product. Using the emu68 image software makes it even
    better, and takes away the manual work.

    Mine is a CM4 unit (have also used a standard pi), and it's on a carrier board. That board then has a expansion connection to USB/HDMI/Network
    (HDMI works), havn't gotten the network side to work yet.

    Seeing my A1200 with 1.8gb of fast ram is wild for a machine from it's t period.


    -- Stephen --

    Rocking Amiganet with an Amiga 4000 and Zeus BBS.


    Hi.

    I need to look into it. A Pistorm32 Lite with a Pi4 adapter, I suppose that should work. I have a Pi3b lying around. My Christmas present, besides
    building a meshtastic network, is...

    We'll have to take a closer look.
    An A4000 for a BB server. I already have mine, ready to play some games and from time to time, I'll still do some programming.
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