Old Glue and MMU compatibility

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Old Glue and MMU compatibility

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Just a quick question. I've got a Rev C C070243 with the -20 glue and mmu. I think the mmu has died. Are these compatible with the -38 versions?
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Never heard of a -20 glue ?
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exxos wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:49 pm Never heard of a -20 glue ?
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Re: Old Glue and MMU compatibility

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Yes, they are compatible.
exxos wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:49 pm Never heard of a -20 glue ?
The first STs has a chipset made by Universal Semiconductors: https://temlib.org/AtariForumWiki/image ... jokker.jpg
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@czietz thanks, it did look like they would be but wanted to check.
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In case it's really broken, do you mind -- instead of tossing it into the bin -- sending it to me? (I can pay for the postage.) I always wanted to (try to) decap a -20 IC, but they're so rare...
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czietz wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 9:58 pm In case it's really broken, do you mind -- instead of tossing it into the bin -- sending it to me? (I can pay for the postage.) I always wanted to (try to) decap a -20 IC, but they're so rare...
If its really broken then no problem, will do as long as you share the results :D might throw in a -20 glue as well.
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The -20 GLUE has "short top border" (PAL screen starts higher up on the TV/monitor than on the later revision)

A lot of demos will fail to remove upper border/start fullscreen on those machines.

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PhilC wrote: Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:21 pm If its really broken then no problem, will do as long as you share the results :D might throw in a -20 glue as well.
Sure, if it's not broken, please keep it. In that case it can be better used than for decapping.

W.r.t. sharing the results: It depends on what you expect. I cannot take beautiful high-res die photos like ijor did for the Ricoh (-38) chips (https://www.fpgaarcade.com/wp4/wp-conte ... OP-50X.jpg) because the good microscope lacks a camera and my USB microscope lacks the magnification. Still, I would like to find out if these chips are really Universal Semiconductor gate arrays and thus I'm hoping for a logo and/or part number on the die.

EDIT: So my die pictures tend to look like this (non-Atari chip):
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Re: Old Glue and MMU compatibility

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Finally got this machine working, although its stuck in mono mode so got to fix that.

Now I know that the early glue and mmu SHOULD be compatible with the -20 versions as we've discussed earlier in this topic BUT after fixing other issues with the ST I finally got the white border with black foreground, ie memory fault.

I swapped out the -38 mmu and glue for the originals and the machine booted up just fine. So it appears there are differences between the old and current version. No idea what yet though.
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