Another Elk to play with - It's a doer upper.

[rubber_jonnie]

What I've started to do is use the four by three sets of 0.3L "Really Useful Boxes", lined them with conductive paint and put the chips in there.


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Admittedly, I've nowhere completed this. (Picture is from early in the process.)

I think I need the same, but not sure where I can mount it TBH. Definitely worth a thought or two.

IC15 didn't fix things, need to have a rethink.

[rubber_jonnie]

OK, so I decided to do some board swapping, so my primary machine now has an issue 6 board rather than the issue 4 with the Jamsoft ULA replacement.

Yellow now looks great. To be fair it's a different machine, so to be expected.

Oddly however, having put the issue 6 ULA in the issue 4 board (I'm told this should be fine), it crashes on boot unless the ElkSD64 card or Plus 1 (With or without ElkSD Plus 1 fitted) is installed, in which case it works fine...

Almost seems like the ROM is failing to properly load, but I have tried different CPUs and a ROM swap, so go figure.

Also the yellow on it is now almost normal. Weird.

No major worries, the machines are all up and running and the board that crashes with the issue 6 ULA in it will just go into the pile of spares, which is much as I'd intended from the off.

If I can get round to looking at the other ULA I need to try building it'll be interesting to see if that works with it. Definitely odd though that it works