16BIT ROM CART THOUGHTS

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Re: 16BIT ROM CART THOUGHTS

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tzok wrote: Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:51 pm SysInfo and GemBench work great on my diagnostic cart, thanks!
Thanks for the confirmation in real life.
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Rotary is good for simple binary selections but I am selecting 128K, 64K, 32K now. Its why the jumper settings are getting more complicated.
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Re: 16BIT ROM CART THOUGHTS

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@Atarian Computing - have you looked at http://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/div ... -cartridge ?
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Re: 16BIT ROM CART THOUGHTS

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tzok wrote: Fri Feb 01, 2019 8:51 pm @Atarian Computing - have you looked at http://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/div ... -cartridge ?
Yes I did. I just wanted to see if I could do it in Powershell as a challenge to myself.
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Hopefully this will be the last design of this board!

I need to create a new ROM image and build it up...

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A month later... I actually soldered one up!

Next to work on the ROM...

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Sweeeeeeeeeet! 8-)

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Not sure why they showing up on D: :shrug: But thanks to Atarian Computing for that bit of black magic voodoo!


I'm not having much luck with YAART though :(


EDIT:

OK I ballsed up one of the jumper links locations on the PCB.. I put a selection jumper on the ST side on A15 not the ROM side :roll: Onto V9 then... :roll:
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V9 done.

I've moved the "6" in "GEMBENCH 6" closer as it looked like "60" because of the jumper hole :lol: and now looking at the image it seems to have moved to somewhere I didn't put it :roll:

Fixed the jumper link fekup.

Also changed the cap from 5mm to 2.5mm as 5mm caps in the size I want seem hard to find :roll: But more choice in 2.5mm.. Anyway, its swapped now.

So they now in the basket awaiting for me to punch send on the current pcb orders...

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V9 Built and tested fine finally!

Will start collecting parts to build up a batch of these to add to my store over the next couple of weeks or so...

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Very Nice Exxos.. any idea on pricing yet?

I might have missed it if it was early in the thread.

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