Patches for the Blizzard 1260

If you own this card you probably discovered that your mounted RAD: disks go in CHIP ram. This because the ram on the card is only flagged as FAST, and the ramdrive.device needs some ram flagged KICK to put its disk in.

As always on the Amiga some mighty users made some programs to avoid the problem, some were brute force HACKS that hanged the machine after one or two resets or crashed with no reason at all, but finally two programs survived and developed to best quality.

They are:

BlizKick v1.12 by Harry Sintonen sintonen@jyu.fi

What it does:

Loads Kickstarts, Patches FAST RAM to LOCALFAST, has an "External Module" implementation, so it can also move VBR, SSP, Exec.Library to Fast Ram, substitute PrepareEmul, SoftScsi and FastWaitBlit, make resident hackdisk.device, relocate memory list headers in Fast Ram and more. However now it has so many features that's worth to download the 90Kb archive just to look at them.
It DOES NOT USE the MMU!
You can find at http://www.jyu.fi/~sintonen/AmigaPrograms.html BlizKick's latest betas and Aminet versions.

Blizzmagic v3.2 by Jan Hlavaty mamlason@bajt.cz

What it does:

Loads Kickstarts, Substitutes PrepareEmul, Patches FAST RAM FLAGS to: BlizzardMem , 32Bit KICK LOCAL FAST, Moves VBR, SSP and Exec.library to FAST RAM,Disables (optionally) Scsi Device,Flashing,"2" Key detection. It DOES NOT USE the MMU!
You can find Blizzmagic on Aminet.
Important info, it seems like BlizzMagic v3.3 DOES NOT WORK with Blizzard 1260, so use v3.2!
You can download it here (3,2Kb Only the binary).
Also user reports that Blizzmagic 3.2 refuses to work if you have the memory installed ONLY on the SCSI KIT.

Other Patches

FastExec v2.5 (18.1.97) from Torbjörn Andersson d95ta@efd.lth.se

What it does:

Moves Exec.library, expansion.library, VBR and SSP to FAST RAM. Also can PATCH exec.library with optimized functions, relocate memory list headers and memory for interrupt servers to FAST memory.
FastExec can be found on Aminet in util/boot or on Author's web page (I think) http://www.efd.lth.se/~d95ta
Patched Power Computing XL drive patch v1.4 from Redskull @ Digital Corruption

What it does:

This is FINALLY a version of the infamous Power Computing XL drive patch that doesn't crash or mess with your processor's caches. You can download it from here or from Aminet.
1260 System Software:

The Blizzard (And Cyberstorm) system software is one of the things that makes this board the best on the market.

Without the Cyberpatcher and the 68060.library, the board would crawl when a 68060 unimplemented instruction is used in a program (like all the other boards do in fact!).

So I think it's important have Up-To-Date version of the software itself, that you can always find on DCE support site: www.dcecom.de/pub/

The latest versions are:

Libraries:

68040.library V 46.5
68040new.library V 46.5
68040old.library V 37.4 (10.6.92) - Not supplied
68060.library V 46.7

Cyberpatcher:

CyberPatcher V 1.153 (21.6.98)

Also one of the last versions of Setpatch can be useful: you can find here Version 43.5 (09/15/96) setpatch.zip(14 Kb) or visit ftp.amiga.de/pub/Public/PublicBETA/ to download SetPatch 43.6.

The mess with v 43+ 68040/68060.library: installation instructions

Well, it seems like the latest Phase5's revision of the 680x0 libraries confused a lot of people. I received many help requests. So, if you own a Blizzard 1260 and just downloaded a post 68060-V43_1c.lha archive (for example the 68060-V44_3.lha), for a correct installation follow these instructions:

  1. Unpack the archive in RAM:
  2. Go to Ram:libs, here you will find:
    68040.library
    68040dummy.library
    68060.library
    And some .sig files that you can ignore for the installation.
  3. Rename the file 68040.library as 68040new.library
  4. Rename the file 68040dummy.library as 68040.library
  5. Copy the files 68040.library, 68040new.library and 68060.library in LIBS: over your existing Phase5's 68040.library and 68060.library.
  6. Copy from your Install 3.0/3.1 floppy the 68040.library as 68040old.library in LIBS: (You can also find it in the CU Amiga Magazine CUCD Series)
  7. That's it.
If you install the wrong 68040.library, your 68060 will be recognized as a 68040.DON'T WORRY! You didn't FRY anything! If you experienced such problem, just follow the previous instructions for a correct installation. Anything will go ok.

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