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Building a TT/MSTe ET4K card

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Building a TT/MSTe ET4K card

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Inspired by artik-wroc's work over on Atari Forum (link)

I ordered some PCB's and parts. Here is my build so far:

I have 4 blank PCBs if anyone wants.
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Re: Building a TT/MSTe ET4K card

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How much do you want for a PCB?
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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
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Re: Building a TT/MSTe ET4K card

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rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:34 pm How much do you want for a PCB?
Just a few quid for postage, just message me.
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Steve wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:35 pm
rubber_jonnie wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:34 pm How much do you want for a PCB?
Just a few quid for postage, just message me.
Cool, thanks.
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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...
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Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?
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Great work Steve! Interesting to see how you get on with the builds.
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The blue PCB looks really good !

Have fun building this nice toy.
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mikro wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:42 pm Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?
About 4 chips I think. The et4k, the DAC and two ICS chips.
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Steve wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 1:15 am
mikro wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:42 pm Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?
About 4 chips I think. The et4k, the DAC and two ICS chips.
And the 8 memory chips for 1Mb of video ram. But they are in sockets usually.
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Re: Building a TT/MSTe ET4K card

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This is a great idea, I hate having the cables coming out of my Mega STE. But an even cooler idea would be to do it for Mach 64 cards: the ISA versions are hard to find and very expensive, but the PCI versions are plentiful and cheap on eBay and elsewhere.
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