MNT ZZ9000 R-4 Quick Start Manual

MNT ZZ9000 R-4 Quickstart Manual
Dear MNT Customer,
Thank you for purchasing the MNT ZZ9000 Graphics Coprocessor Card (with
Ethernet and USB Storage) for Commodore Amiga computers. This product was
made possible by your support.
Package Contents
• MNT ZZ9000 Zorro card (1) with mounting bracket and
128MB MicroSD card (4) containing ZZ9000OS
• MNT ZZ9000CX ECS/AGA Video Slot adapter (2)
• Video Slot ribbon cable for connecting both cards (3)
• This manual
Warranty
MNT Research covers the warranty to the extent required by law for the unmodified
product. ZZ9000 is based on a reconfigurable Xilinx ZYNQ Z-7020 FPGA that can be
updated by the user and reprogrammed to enable new functionality. Warranty does
not cover user supplied firmware or any modifications made to the card, nor does it
cover any damage by inserting it into a computer or other user supplied device. Use
at your own risk!
Conformity
MNT ZZ9000 may only be operated in a shielding steel enclosure.
MNT Research assures that the included product complies with the
requirements of the following European Directives and DIN standards:
EMC Directive 2014/30/EU (EN 55032:2015/A11:2020, EN 55035:2017/A11:2020)
Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU (EN 62368-1:2014)
RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU (EN 63000:2018)
MNT Research GmbH
Fehlerstr. 8, 12161 Berlin
WEEE: DE 33315564
https://mntre.com
Get updates and source code at:
https://mntre.com/zz9000
Need help? Write to
zz9000@mntre.com
Join our IRC channel #mnt-amiga on
irc.libera.chat
Hardware Installation
1. Connect the Video Slot ribbon cable by inserting one end into the 34 pin socket
of ZZ9000 and the other end into the 34 pin socket of ZZ9000CX.
2. Insert ZZ9000 into any of the Zorro slots of your Amiga 2000/3000/4000.
3. Insert ZZ9000CX into the Video Slot of your Amiga. In Amiga 2000, the Video
Slot is on the right side of the power supply. In Amiga 3000, the Video Slot is located
next to the top Zorro slot on the daugtherboard. In Amiga 4000, the Video Slot is
next to the bottom Zorro slot on the daughterboard.
There are two distinct firmware (BOOT.bin) files for Zorro II and Zorro III support.
ZZ9000 ships with the firmware that you selected when ordering. To change it, just
download a new firmware file and copy it to the MicroSD card inserted in ZZ9000.
Software Installation
1. Install the RTG (ReTargetable Graphics) system. There are two options:
• Picasso96 on Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/Picasso96
• P96 3.x by Individual Computers (recommended). To purchase a license, first
register an account in their shop. More information: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/P96
When installing Picasso96/P96, select only the Altais card. The ZZ9000 Installer will
copy it to create its own Devs:Monitors/ZZ9000 driver file.
2. ZZ9000 implements a SANA-II compatible network card that you can use to go
online with TCP/IP stacks such as Miami or Roadshow. Make sure you have such a
TCP/IP stack installed before installing the network driver.
3. Double click "Install ZZ9000" from the ZZ9000 Install package available from our
website or on floppy disk from our online shop. The ZZ9000 Installer will guide you
through all steps necessary to set up the graphics, network and AHI/MHI (requires
separate MNT ZZ9000AX module) functions.
4. After rebooting, you will be able to select high resolution 8/16/32 bit screen
modes using ZZ9000's display engine. Native Amiga chipset screen modes will be
automatically scan-doubled and flicker-fixed via ZZ9000CX.
5. You can use a USB stick to exchange files between your Amiga and other
computers via zzusb.device that is automatically loaded as part of the firmware.
The USB stick needs to be formatted with the Amiga FFS filesystem and RDB
partition table for this to work. The first partition should be below 4GB in size. You
can use HDInstTools (with zzusb.device set up as the device in its Icon Information)
to create the partition and format it with Amiga tools, or use an emulator such as
WinUAE. On Linux, you can mount Amiga partitions from the stick by passing the
option -t affs to the regular mount command.