Back to the TT. Fitted a Lightning USB VME board but have run into to a problem. The TT being the one with the 68030 daughter board and top shielding does not lend itself to fitting the shielding over the top i.e. no slot for the Lightning card to poke through. Will need to detach the VME tray and l...

agranlund wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:52 pm

exxos wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:45 pm

Forgot to say theres 2 mystery items also included in the H5 boxes.

Kittens?

Knowing @exxos they are booby prizes. Wonder who is getting the wooden spoon.

PhilC wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:42 pm

Is that a different reset chip compared to last time? the H4 used a MIC6315-29D4UY-TR

Same chip @PhilC different manufacturer.

Nice re-spin for SMT assembly @exxos. Will really cut down the time to build.

Thanks @Cyprian that will be my next focus.

A little bit more progress but I think still a long way to go.... After trying out Cyprian 's 3rd program on the Sparkalaphobia I got the below pattern which clearly was not right: Sparkalaphobia in STFM before modifying clocks - program 3.jpeg I played around with the clocks and timings and managed...

Thanks @terriblefire will look into that as well. My FPGA skills are still growing and this is going to be another learning curve

Thanks @Cyprian. I know you said you had a busy day yesterday so appreciate the effort. I will take a look with your new program later as I too am distracted by non-Atari things this morning.

Hopefully we can zero in on where the issue is in the core or the board and solve this

Well anything is possible with the money and resources (within reason :)) but as you may see with some of the projects in flight on this forum and many others in the retro world they take long time to develop and test as most of the people developing are doing this as a hobby and not their day job. ...

agranlund wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:33 pm

Order sent, always exciting to find out how many bodge wires will be required

It's not a proper dev board until it has bodge wire

Nice work.