Nothing too exciting here, but I did document it just in case it went horribly wrong.
First, we need to desolder
16 * 15 IC pin holes = 256
16 * 2 capacitor holes = 32
3 * 2 resistor holes.
That's a grand total of 294 holes. Great fun.
Here we are part of the way through the process
That took a while, but finally, it's all done.
Caps all in place
Sockets in place.
Resistors in place. Weird reflections. The joins are actually a lot better.
Chips in
Detected and testing well
Nothing that complicated. It was rather time consuming, but I wanted to keep this system fairly conservative and not all tricked out. No boosters. No floppy emulators. I plugged in a joystick and had a nice fun game of New Zealand Story off of an original floppy.
Ebay Board 3: The 1MB upgrade
Re: Ebay Board 3: The 1MB upgrade
Good job Reminds me of trying to sell a 1mb STFM on ebay/fb recently, people telling me it wasn't worth anything because it didn't have 4mb. Stupid idiots honestly, 1MB will play 99% of all commercially released games. If I spent the money on upgrading it to 4mb then adding the costs of the upgrade & labour into the price it would have been even less likely to sell. the irony ;D.
Re: Ebay Board 3: The 1MB upgrade
nice to see a bit of oldskool stuff going on!
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viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1585 Have you done the Mandatory Fixes ?
Just because a lot of people agree on something, doesn't make it a fact. ~exxos ~
People should find solutions to problems, not find problems with solutions.