PaulJ Progress

[rpineau]

Well.... I'm originally from Europe but live in USA now :) (and have been for the last 19 years). So see.. you're not alone :)

The Atari ST was a HUGE success in Europe (and the subsequent Atari machines).

[PaulJ]

Thanks for playing Atari today! :lol:

OK, I checked into the cart failure on the parallel port. Today I had a solid failure of bit four. See attachment. When I connected to the chip directly it looked better but not right. Investigation showed no connection on pin 9 of the 2149. So I just jumped it an the world is good. Parallel port always passes now.

First attachment: with jump parallel connector pin 6 jumper to 2149 pin 9
Second pic: sampled at pin 9 2149
Third: As build no jumpers, doesn't work.
Fourth: Results with atcha_1: works 100% now.

Everyone should check parallel port pin 6 to 2149 pin 9 with an ohm meter. If open jumper. I haven't checked the pc board layout images yet.

[Icky]

Thanks for playing Atari today! :lol:

OK, I checked into the cart failure on the parallel port. Today I had a solid failure of bit four. See attachment. When I connected to the chip directly it looked better but not right. Investigation showed no connection on pin 9 of the 2149. So I just jumped it an the world is good. Parallel port always passes now.

First attachment: with jump parallel connector pin 6 jumper to 2149 pin 9
Second pic: sampled at pin 9 2149
Third: As build no jumpers, doesn't work.
Fourth: Results with atcha_1: works 100% now.

Everyone should check parallel port pin 6 to 2149 pin 9 with an ohm meter. If open jumper. I haven't checked the pc board layout images yet.

Great work PaulJ.

Just checked the layout and indeed those pins are not connected. Missing track. You have found the next patch.

[PhilC]

:goodpost:

Well done PaulJ

[exxos]

Great find!

Here is why...

pin9.JPG

[PhilC]

Ah, that explains it then. It's one of my most common cock ups when I use Eagle too.

[exxos]

Ah, that explains it then. It's one of my most common cock ups when I use Eagle too.

What really pi**es me off with eagle is it always defaults the grid to 2.54 rather than saving the grid I last used in the file. So every time I open eagle, or the lib editor etc, I have to change the grid every time. I can end up doing it like 50 times a week. So then the nets don't snap to the pad and sometimes I forget to change it or so tired I just don't notice the snap is off :roll:

[rpineau]

My version save the grid used in a schematics (7.7 on OS X).
but yea older version had that issue that was annoying.

[exxos]

My version save the grid used in a schematics (7.7 on OS X).
but yea older version had that issue that was annoying.

I think I have used 7.7 on windows and that doesn't save the grid :( got annoyed with eagle when they changed the icons, was some hacks to put back a similar old set.. But got sick of them messing with it all. Companies never seem to have anything better to do than change icons about :roll: they even moved some icons, like same location for years and they suddenly decide to move a few about.. Whyyyyy ??? I don't wanna go looking for icons, it should be where its always been and look like it always been, not spend 10mins trying to figure out what icon now does what each click :roll:

[rpineau]

Because they got bought by AutoDesk .. which then went on pissing-off all of their current customer by moving to a subscription model where it would cost me more by year that what I paid for my hobbyist license ...