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Finally rooted. The via count in the autorouter said 700, but in stats it says 1648 :shrug:

Anyway, the bottleneck seems to have now shifted to the left of the blitter and ROM chip :roll: Is actually stupid because the singletrack from top to bottom easily be straight down, and the only breakout would actually be for the cartridge connector assuming we wanted a direct route.

I'm really just thinking of starting to route that area myself now... Or better still, where's Icky...

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exxos wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2019 5:47 pm I'm really just thinking of starting to route that area myself now... Or better still, where's Icky...
Send it over.....
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Bodge capacitor and firmware tweak later...Finally booted up to TOS206... passed over 40 loops (YAART 4MB) so now the board is stable.

No time tonight to work on the basic IDE firmware... but at least its now booting :)

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exxos wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2019 9:48 pm Bodge capacitor and firmware tweak later...Finally booted up to TOS206... passed over 40 loops (YAART 4MB) so now the board is stable.

No time tonight to work on the basic IDE firmware... but at least its now booting :)
:thumbup: - snap. Trudie number two is also booting
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Icky wrote: Tue Jul 30, 2019 10:48 pm :thumbup: - snap. Trudie number two is also booting
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Low profile sockets finally arrived..

Difficult to get a good photograph, but there is probably only a gnats knacker between the 2..

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A small update on the H2... As autorouter makes a huge mess, Icky has kindly taken over some of that work (hopefully Icky will follow my design rules better than the autorouter :lol: ) and is currently routing the buses between the blitter,glue,cpu,rom, mmu manually. The H2 I have already basically routed 50% of it already, so I dare say would would be up to 70% or thereabouts easily after that routing is done. So while there may not be much news on the H2, a lot is going on "behind the scenes" so rest assured we are working on it each week :)
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The new ROM labels are starting to make their way into stock. All previous ones generally have a QC label on them and there are still some of those in stock currently. Future batches will of course have the new labels on them :)

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One reason to buy FPU's from my store...

#busytesting

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