Back to school, and Atari die shots….
Well, summer is now over and it’s time to crack on with the FPGA work. I’m still busy repairing the last few boards, and work is well under way on the daughterboard and new production run.
I’ve been chatting with a couple of guys over on atari-forum regarding the Atari ST ASICs.
http://www.chzsoft.de/asic-web/ has been able to print out some of the ASIC drawings found in an Atari archive. I’m working with him to see what’s useful, and contributing my work back. I’ll stick it all in the public SVN asap.Finally, here’s a super die scan of the MMU C0205912-38 by Ijor./Mike
Server update
I’m starting the work on updating the website and servers. The developers SVN will be off line for a few moments today.
/Mike
Forum down (Now fixed)
You may have noticed the forum is down. This appears to be a problem with the hosting company after an update.
I have run a full back now and we are working on it ….
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And it’s all ok again.
Happy Friday!
Hardware stuff
The forum is really the place to see regular updates, but I thought it was time for a summary here.
The Amiga code is pretty stable. Work is being done to add RTG interlaced modes and increase CPU performance further, but the main focus at the moment is on hardware.
I’ve been working with some new suppliers and assemblers, using my Namco 28 pin ASIC replacement as a test. They have just arrived back and look very nice :
I need to test these, then I’ll update (ok, write) this part of the website. These modules are used to replace a number of Namco devices in old arcade games.
In other news, the 68060 daughterboard can now be completed. The main problem was a lack of the connectors in small volume – MOQ was 500.
I’ve managed thanks to Samtec to get a smaller amount, so I can get on and produce the board.
/Mike
