I like the idea that it's a Friday afternoon workaround because they got higher capacity RAM chips :D it would seen originally they were pads the resistors later were bridged over the tracks on the PCB, and the original holes just not removed.. I would assume this board came out after the 32 chip R...

oooooh .... shiny ! ! :D :lolbig: So far I am not really having much luck :( I was trying with my normal monitor with the RGB port and the best I could get was a really out of sync image. So I plugged in my multisync monitor and I just said no signal detected. I was messing about for about two hour...

BLiTTER in FPGA? Really cool idea, I second that. Would be cool to add one feature - hardware C2P conversion. Now, a standard C2P - chunky160x100 to 4-bitplane 320x200 can take up to 480 000 cycles. With 160 000 cycles per frame it is 3 frames. With the BLiTTER speed it could take advantage of copy...

You couldn't get it to work on the Cyclone-II? The EP2C5s I used for the shifter are only $25 each, and they should have way more LEs and pins than you need, and they're not BGA. Although they are fairly large. I went for the cheapest 3.3V one which would work. No use going for a larger more expens...

What is that empty section to the right of the empty bank, with the large cap to the top right? No idea... Looks like a bunch of pointless jumper tracks which basically jump over section of other track doesn't go to anything :shrug: looks like we got a bit of a mystery.. Maybe it was just left over...

Yes, I did. I talked to the guy some years ago about recreating the machine. I asked about what would be involved in releasing the board again, even obtaining all the schematics and codes to improve on it, or possible licensing agreements to produce it. I never got a reply to those questions. But th...

That's interesting as my TT always powered up in less than a second from brand new. It was *click* (about half a second) wurrr. Be interesting if you could change C8 for a newer capacitor and see what the startup time is then. The one I had took about 4 seconds to turn on, its why I lowered the val...

Thanks for letting us know!

Out of interest, how long does actually take after turn on for the video to appear ? My 2 Falcons it takes three or four seconds before it comes out of reset..

Cheers Chris for all the investment you're doing into our community :) :thanksyellow: I'll second that :) so cool to see this happening, much of what Chris wants to achieve very much echoes what I would have wanted to see within a new ST motherboard too. But this time, hopefully a really rock solid...