General Stuff(tm)

[PhilC]

One of the members of the Retro Hardware Discord is sending one of his own design of 512K one.

https://github.com/rabs664/Elan-Enterpr ... -Expansion

Thanks, will have a look at it in a bit.

[stephen_usher]

The replacement membrane arrived today so I fitted that. I also fitted a cable to make installing the memory upgrade more easily. Oh, you may have noticed the heatsinks in this photo. :-)

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I buttoned the machine up, tested and all was fine.

Thence to some painting of the replacement joystick handle. I bought some Revell emerald green acrylic from Hobbycraft and gave the part two coats using a brush followed by a couple of coats of Plastikote satin varnish. Looks decent and works well. Then I found that the shape is wrong according to some photos, so I'm going to have to rejig it.

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Other than that it's just been looking at the demo tape contents really.

[PhilC]

Wondering if my clock issue is heat related? I'll give it a look when I next take it apart.

That enterprise is looking very nice now @stephen_usher

[rubber_jonnie]

Looking fabulous.

:girldance: :girldance: :girldance:

[stephen_usher]

Some more progress on the Enterprise.

Having looked at photos I saw that my joystick handle wasn't the correct shape. It should be more like an inverted "modern" milk bottle rather than an inverted old milk bottle shape, so I designed, printed and painted a new one.

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Whilst waiting for a package from "rabs" on the Retro Hardware Discord containing his RAM expansion and a PCB for a floppy interface I decided to design a ROM cartridge case. Amazingly there are no freely available STL files for a case but there are people selling them via eBay. Anyway, I gathered all the images I could find online, including a useful plan image of a PCB sitting inside an original case from which I could get good dimensions as I could use the edge connector spacing of 2.55mm as a reference. I had to guess the heights though and I didn't have a good image of the upper half.

This is what I've come up with. It still needs a little tweeking but once that's done I'll publish it on Thingiverse for anyone to use.

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Yesterday afternoon the "care package" arrived and in the evening I built and fitted the RAM expansion.

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Seems to work. :-)

As for the floppy interface PCB, I'll have to see what components I need. I know I'm going to have to hack the edge connector as the ones I have aren't wide enough. Still, that's doable.

[PhilC]

@stephen_usher Nicely done. I'm probably going to spin my own ram PCB as I've got just about every ram chip but that one :lol:

[rubber_jonnie]

Looking damn fine, I have Enterprise envy now :)

[mrbombermillzy]

Looking damn fine, I have Enterprise envy now :)

What??! You mean you dont have one of these @rubber_jonnie ??

:dizzy:

:lol:

[rubber_jonnie]

Looking damn fine, I have Enterprise envy now :)

What??! You mean you dont have one of these @rubber_jonnie ??

:dizzy:

:lol:

Sadly not

[JezC]

What??! You mean you dont have one of these @rubber_jonnie ??

:dizzy:

:lol:

Sadly not

..yet
:lol: :roll: