exxos blog - random goings on

[Icky]

Looking good. On track for November still then?

yeah, I'm just doing a bit of manual routing here and there.

Careful or you will end up like I did, trying to route the whole board

[exxos]

Careful or you will end up like I did, trying to route the whole board

Yeah, got a month, so probably Got PSU's to build up next week anyway.

[exxos]

Doing a bit more routing, but its at the point where its starts getting really complicated now. I'm ripping up sections I already routed as I found better paths to link stuff up. Hopefully it will free up some area to route the more problematical signals.

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[exxos]

Still routing away.. Found a "short" between the DMA and the shifter blue lines That came about as I used "B0" in the DMA buffers chips, and "B0" for BLUE 0 on the shifter Probably would have been a good fault though.. in that the floppy drive only works when blue isn't being displayed on the screen or something

Routing getting hard now. having to rip up loads of tracks and juggle to just route 1 now. Its got to the point of more like 1 or 2 track routes per hour now

Made a lot of progress though.. about 50% more done than last week.

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[exxos]

As a side note, The low profile RTC boards are not forgotten about, neither are the TOS206 boards (which will be a replacement for the T-boards)

RTC

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 400#p24736


206 ROM board.

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 206#p22501


CHEAPO VGA ADAPTER

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 206#p22584


I'm going to try and finish some of these projects over x-mas.

[Icky]

I'm going to try and finish some of these projects over x-mas.

Famous last words. I am sure another project will pop up to distract you.

[exxos]

Famous last words. I am sure another project will pop up to distract you.

Yeah 99% sure that will be the case.

[exxos]

Think the routing tool is on LSD again...

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[exxos]

Busy routing for 11 hours straight

There was some DRC issues which should be fixed now.. at least on the part shown. I still need to sort out the GLUE to CPU wires yet..

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I'm going to try and start doing some PSU builds tomorrow.. famous last words...

[Icky]

I'm going to try and start doing some PSU builds tomorrow.. famous last words...

Yeah too right - you will still be battling the routing bugs and lose another 11 hours of tomorrow.