So I figured out which points on the backplane expose the up/down links in my topology diagram. I knew they were exposed there, just had to identify them exactly.
Unfortunately the pins are too short to attempt wirewrap so I just soldered them.
dml wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2026 9:28 am
Two boards now installed on the backplane:
Holy macarone, Batman!
BW
DFB1 Open source 50MHz 030 and TT-RAM accelerator for the Falcon Smalliermouse ST-optimised USB mouse adapter based on SmallyMouse2 FrontBench The Frontier: Elite 2 intro as a benchmark
rubber_jonnie wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2026 2:00 pm
You'll be running your own AI on it soon enough!
It seems like we're not in short supply right now
A contributor on the ATW800 channel has actually done this (running a very very tiny model, on the root Transputer) as an experiment.
Nice, is there a link to that at all please?
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2026 9:36 am
Nice, is there a link to that at all please?
I have no idea what the discord channel's policy is on posting invite links (bots etc.) so I PM'd you.
I saw, thanks
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
dml wrote: Sun Sep 27, 2026 1:51 pm
I think we completed bullet 1 on plan list 2:
next part should be:
- make code run on it <----- we are here
- escalate things in all directions
- render some Babylon 5 on it
That means we unlock the escalate-things step! Now there's two of them.
I need to figure out from my notes which tie points will get them talking. Time for some wire-wrapping....
At this rate, you aren’t just going to render some B5 on it, you’ll end building an Atari ST-based Unity competitor for real-time rendering scenes to drive a virtual production LED video wall
