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Just received my Etarikashikoshi but there is no manual.

1. Is there any way to set the amount of ram like on aje?

2. Any documentation in the pi midi connector requirements?

Have you tried one of the yahdi hdd images from the forums?

https://nfggames.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5463.40

I'm using either dos or PepAlacant (can't remember) and it had drivers for my internal IDE cd rom. You may have some luck there with your scsi drive.

For those wishing to purchase Etarikashikoshi for the first time, the MIDI card is black, there is a backplate for the tower models.
The backplate comes in two colours, black or light grey, but if you don't give your preference, the black one will be sent to you.

A tip for assembly:
It's not easy to mount an expansion card on the X68000, the expansion slots are damn hard.

Get two square felt for chairs, fold them in half, now you can use them to protect your thumbs when you put pressure on the corners of your MIDI card or other device.

When you screw in the backplate, do not overtighten the screws, because it will bend towards the inside of the slots.

I had my Etarikashikoshi 8MB RAM + MIDI Board updated and I can confirm that it works well with XVI at 16MHz.
Compatibility with X68030 not verified.

For those interested in updating their Etarikashikoshi, they will only have to pay the shipping costs (tracked shipping).

I am of the opinion that if the manufacturer had equipped the card with Micro-USB to update the device it would have been better.

https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/etarikashikoshi-x68000-8mb-ram-midi-board-preorder

@incrediblehark You can boot the HDD image by setting BOOT: STD on SASI computers, but you need to keep HD_MAX: 0 set.

The STD reading order is as follows:

1 Floppy disk (drive 0/drive 1/drive 2/drive 3)
2 SASI or SCSI (integrated interface)
3 ROM (including SCSI expansion card)
4 SRAM
After loading the SxSI driver, the ROM parameter $ED0100 will be in the list of addresses available in the read sequence.

However, it is not a certain rule, as the system in use makes a difference (OG/PRO are the most problematic), version and type of hardware of the emulator installed, and firmware version.

In the worst case you can always use forced startup with the OPT.1 button.

To anyone else who has this issue, just a heads up that some games batch files use SLEEP.X to display messages temporarily. I like that it doesn't require any user input. I really enjoy using rezb1t's app, and it sounds like the root cause may be more hardware related.

This depends on communication problems between your emulation device (hardware revision and firmware version) and your X68000 SASI, especially the OG/PRO models.

For those who have the problem of the startup screen freezing, on SASI computers press the CLR key repeatedly, this way it should start regularly even on subsequent startups.

It costs nothing to try.

Quote from: Sebastian77 on July 17, 2024, 06:03:21 AMI had the same issue, and problem was that on my Ace the RTC is not working properly (I think that I have to adjust the trimmer), then the "SLEEP 4" on AUTOEXEC.BAT was hanging the computer.

That makes sense as sleep.x uses the system time to determine how long to sleep.

There might be a better way that I'm missing.. unfortunately I can't just count cpu cycles because of the different clock speeds X68000 machines can run at

Quote from: leonk on June 21, 2024, 10:28:54 AMGot an OG X68K with 10MB of RAM and SCSI2SD 5.1.  For some reason, the system hangs on the image you added in autoexec.bat.  When I REM out "PIC BOOT.PIC" the system then works and boots into LHES correctly.

Anyone else got this issue on real hardware using the 2.20 image?

I had the same issue, and problem was that on my Ace the RTC is not working properly (I think that I have to adjust the trimmer), then the "SLEEP 4" on AUTOEXEC.BAT was hanging the computer.

@spectreman after using ROM $ED0100 to boot your bluescsi hdd image once, could you try setting the boot mode to STD and see if it still works? I have tested this in the past to boot from floppy if inserted or the scsi2sd if not but want to see if it works for other people as well.