Sporniket's log on hardware stuff

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Darklord wrote: 02 Sep 2025 17:50 You deserve a commission then. :)
I thought that when I got home !
JezC wrote: 02 Sep 2025 18:26 What did that bloke say when he found out?
He was delighted :lol:
JezC wrote: 02 Sep 2025 18:26 I'm hoping he wanted to sell it.... :roll: :lol:
Yeah he wanted to sell it, That's what he told me like 10munites before-hand :lol: This is what happens when I end up talking to random people walking past.. And I get distracted easily :lol: I mean I was working opposite a drs surgery and it was old people flu jab day so... Mostly I was just trying to avoid getting run over more than anything :lol:


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sporniket wrote: 02 Sep 2025 14:19 Thanks :)

Baby girl expected around the end of october.
:girldance: :cheer: :girldance:

Toutes mes félicitations !
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Félicitations!
And don’t worry about retro stuff, you’re going to have plenty of time at night to work on it, just split between feeding times. ;)
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520 STF/ 1040 STE / Mega ST / 2 Mega STE / 2 H5
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Apple //c, Commodore 128, Mac Classic, SE/30, LC, IIvi and PB G3 (Clamshell)
Amiga 600 and a few 486 and 386.
Many Nintendo G&W and other electronic games from the late 70s/early 80s.
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Merci !

For the record, this is my second kid. The first one is now at middle school.
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sporniket wrote: 02 Sep 2025 14:19 Thanks :)

Baby girl expected around the end of october.
Good luck!

Mine's two and a half years in and the free time hasn't come back yet...

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DFB1 Open source 50MHz 030 and TT-RAM accelerator for the Falcon
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Got 4 here from 11 to 21 and time is still very limited… even feeling there’s less and less…but maybe it’s just me getting older and slowing down :?
Retro stuff
520 STF/ 1040 STE / Mega ST / 2 Mega STE / 2 H5
2 x 600XL with U1MB /SOFIA 2/ AVG CART / and a few 1050
Apple //c, Commodore 128, Mac Classic, SE/30, LC, IIvi and PB G3 (Clamshell)
Amiga 600 and a few 486 and 386.
Many Nintendo G&W and other electronic games from the late 70s/early 80s.
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Meanwhile, today I had to update the kicad project of the STe motherboard, as a problem with the footprint of the cartridge port was reported.

I took a little time to rework the page with the video port to make it more readable (like, connect as much element as possible, and put the signal names on the connectors instead of generic 'vidX'). Because the STe was the first of that kind of work, and I have refined how I draw schematics since then.

2025-09-03--1-reworked-video-port-schematic.png

It also makes the PCB more readable as the pinout of the port appears on each pin

Capture d’écran du 2025-09-03 20-59-34.png

I plan to edit the project further, little by little, at my own leisurely pace.
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That is excellent! Your schematics were very helpful when fixing my STE, so your efforts are very much appreciated...

JD

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