Lots of progress but little time to talk about it. Here’s the fully populated card installed. There were two issues identified so far with the PCB design. One, the battery holder silkscreen was upside...
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PCB ordered from Seeed Studio
I placed the order late last night for the PCB! The PCB design is obviously finished, fully passes the kicad DRC checks, the problems with the footprints were solved. I’ve decided to go with Seeed Studio’s...
All SMT parts on order, rough idea of parts costs
So all the SMT parts have been ordered for the prototype PCB. Once they come in, I’ll be testing the placement of the parts on top of a printed layout to see if the chips/parts match the layout — if there...
Finalized schematic and PCB is coming along nicely
SMT parts will be ordered soon. Once they arrive, I’ll double-check the pad design/placement is good, and then order the PCBs! Everything is coming along swimmingly and I should have a prototype PCB in a few...
Sometimes the amiga recognizies my ram board, some very basic memory tests are passing
So I’m starting to make some progress here, but I still have some troubles with my expansion board prototype. For the first time, the initial exec-rom-based check passed, and the memory auto-configured. This...
Amiga Guru Meditation number 00000003.00C06560
Found a bad flip/flip replaced it, and now I’m on my way. The amiga appears to be getting past the initial boot stages including the ram memory checks! I see the blue screen, and the disk drives starts loading...
