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DMA Bliss by Effect & Ephidrena & SMFX
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added on the 2025-07-10 14:04:18 by nerve  |
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For those not in the know. Earlier Atari STe dma chips had some different behaviour in certain cases than the later chips. For a long time these earlier chips were deemed 'bad' dma. Only recently due to decapping and analysis of the chip the community found out the subtle hardware difference between the two versions. As a result, by using the 'bad' dma chip version in an other way (in code) it turns out the chip behaves as intended. This release contains a binary patch for one of the better known hard disk drivers for the Atari, such that this hard disk driver now also works correctly with the 'bad' dma. And thus, we achieve DMA bliss!
added on the 2025-07-10 14:35:17 by spkr 
Much appreciated fix and great intro!
The only 96KB and even STEreo music !
Nice intro for some cool hackers!
Wow, this is great! THE hard drive fix, and awesome intro! :)
Bliss!
Yes! ;)
Cool concept to pair an intro with some useful fix!
powwwwwwwww
Thanks to CHZ-Soft for the Bad DMA investigation and to Nerve for doing the patch program :) Finally only badass DMA!
Oh, and nice intro too!
Oh, and nice intro too!
Appreciate the effort.
I've got an 'early' TOS 1.6 STE with that issue.
Unfortunately I discovered it in 1991 and got a friend to replace the chip.
I've got an 'early' TOS 1.6 STE with that issue.
Unfortunately I discovered it in 1991 and got a friend to replace the chip.
Really nice work! It was very exciting listening to Nerve telling me all about this at Black Valley.
Nice
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