Archie A3000 inbound

[rubber_jonnie]

Very nice

[HigashiJun]

@stephen_usher
@rubber_jonnie

Thanks guys.

As everything works now, I just realise how Acorn computers were really good back in time.

[Badwolf]

The Archie A3000 is such a lovely machine.

It really is, I wish I had enough space to have a few machines set up at once as this one would get a lot of my attention.

BW

[HigashiJun]

It really is, I wish I had enough space to have a few machines set up at once as this one would get a lot of my attention.

BW

@Badwolf

Yes, more room would be great.

@rubber_jonnie is very lucky...

[rubber_jonnie]

It really is, I wish I had enough space to have a few machines set up at once as this one would get a lot of my attention.

BW

@Badwolf

Yes, more room would be great.

@rubber_jonnie is very lucky...

I'm very lucky indeed.

[HigashiJun]

Here is the Saturday update.

A pin for the IOC line (needed for the HD Floppy module) is now fitted. Much more convenient than directly soldering to the motherboard:

IOC.JPG (319.58 KiB) Viewed 860 times

And here are all the wires routed and ready to connect (one for the HD module and the rest for the UltraVIDC):

Wires.JPG (572.76 KiB) Viewed 860 times

The Ultra VIDC will be finally placed near the right speaker, rather than above the MEMC chip:

UltraVIDC.JPG (476.87 KiB) Viewed 860 times

And since the VIDC will be overclocked in order to gain higher resolutions, a heatsink & fan has to be fitted on the chip:

Fan.JPG (385.44 KiB) Viewed 860 times

It perfectly fits under the floppy drive.

That's all for today.

[rubber_jonnie]

Here is the Saturday update.

A pin for the IOC line (needed for the HD Floppy module) is now fitted. Much more convenient than directly soldering to the motherboard:


IOC.JPG


And here are all the wires routed and ready to connect (one for the HD module and the rest for the UltraVIDC):


Wires.JPG


The Ultra VIDC will be finally placed near the right speaker, rather than above the MEMC chip:


UltraVIDC.JPG


And since the VIDC will be overclocked in order to gain higher resolutions, a heatsink & fan has to be fitted on the chip:


Fan.JPG


It perfectly fits under the floppy drive.

That's all for today.

Very neat work, looking good.

[HigashiJun]

Thank you @rubber_jonnie .

Yeah, aesthetics matters...

[rubber_jonnie]

Thank you @rubber_jonnie .

Yeah, aesthetics matters...

[HigashiJun]

And the last expansion is finished.

A nice joystick adapter for the Archie:

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Joystick2.JPG (248.89 KiB) Viewed 818 times

Joystick3.JPG (271.73 KiB) Viewed 818 times

I will have to try some games now...