Raven. A homemade Atari-like computer

[LarryL]

You‘re welcome, @redpixel

Strangely, Mouser had no problem to ship those two components to Gemany - received their shipping notice just one hour ago

[redpixel]

You‘re welcome, @redpixel

Strangely, Mouser had no problem to ship those two components to Gemany - received their shipping notice just one hour ago

Hmm, that's really odd. Maybe I was just unlucky then I chatted to a customer service rep and he confirmed that it was not possible to ship them but wouldn't say why exactly.

Out of curiosity I checked their RoHS status and both seem fine (I'm guessing they would've mentioned if they had any active exemptions):
https://quality.analog.com/viewdeclarat ... 3245CAI%2b
https://quality.analog.com/viewdeclarat ... 1818-10%2b

[agranlund]

Just done the filtrate Weston the card ran with 80mhz MCLK and prepare for more daft figures

Haha that’s completely bonkers!

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I took your advice and got myself some faster ram chips.
Not quite sure if I have the tools, skills and guts to replace the ones on the GD5434, it’s quite cramped there for my clumpsy soldering iron
The GD5429 should be fairly easy though.

[PhilC]

@agranlund I'll look forward to seeing your results with the 5429 then. I'm getting 80mhz easily on the 5434 with 60ns ram btw.

Shame the 5434 is still crashing for me. Wondering if it's my abused ISA socket though but the 5429 works fine in them.

[agranlund]

Thank you @redpixel, nice to have another Raven in Sweden

How bizarre that they wouldn’t ship those two chips to Sweden! As you said, there aren’t really anything indicating why they wouldn’t be eu compliant.
Wonder if Digikey behaves the same or if it’s just Mouser.

At a glance it looks like that TRSF3243EIPWR is pretty much identical. Nice find! Fingers crossed it works fine as a replacement.
Hope the smd variant of the ds1818 can be shipped to Sweden else I’ll have to rework it for other component(s)

[Atarian Computing]

You‘re welcome, @redpixel

Strangely, Mouser had no problem to ship those two components to Gemany - received their shipping notice just one hour ago

No problems to Finland either.

[Atarian Computing]

This is what I've been able to deduce from the various threads. Am I missing someone? Can each builder verify the info?

Name	Revision	Serial #	Date
@agranlund	A0	1	Apr 2024
@agranlund	A1	2	June 2024
@DrZiplok	A1	3	July 2024
@Oldskool	A1	4	August 2024
@luciodra	A1	5	November 2024
@kodak80	A1	6	November 2024
@kodak80	A1	7	December 2024
@PhilC	A1	8	? 2025
nowy80retro	A1	9	Early 2025
nowy80retro	A1	10	Early 2025
@sety	A1	11	June 2025
@dml	A1	12	July 2025
@Atarian Computing	A1	13	October 2025

[redpixel]

No problems to Finland either.

I think I for some strange reason must've ended up on some sort of shit list of Mouser's. The order still hasn't shipped, it seems to be close now though (order status has gone from "picking started" 2 or 3 days ago to "picking completed"). I chatted to them and they've refused to say what was wrong, other than that the parts being "restricted" caused the order to get sent back to their credit department (even though it was paid for up front by Mastercard)... Really odd. I called the Swedish service desk today and the person I spoke to told me the parts were not for sale to private customers, only to businesses. Not sure what to believe Anyway hope it's just me and shipping will be fine for others.

[Cyprian]

If I remember correctly, two Ravens were built in Poland

[Atarian Computing]

...told me the parts were not for sale to private customers, only to businesses.

Ah... that could be it. I'm buying as a business.