Smonson's slow H4 build

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Mon May 11, 2020 11:35 am

Yeah... It does a bit!

Post by **rubber_jonnie** » Mon May 11, 2020 11:38 am

Smonson wrote: Sun May 10, 2020 1:23 pm Boom! It lives!

Now I need the IDC connector for the internal floppy drive which I ordered in late February and have literally been sitting motionless in a postal warehouse in Sydney for SEVEN WEEKS.

Good job sir

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Wed May 13, 2020 11:05 am

I got the 34-pin IDC socket in the mail today, installed it and the floppy disk interface is working fine too. So now I have a fully-usable machine (albeit without sound)

One thing did change: now I have the jiggly screen effect that other people have had. Which is again good news, because I can attempt to resolve it.

Unfortunately Quartus 12 no longer runs on the latest Ubuntu and I don't have enough laptop disk space to install another OS so that's a bummer, I will be constantly walking between my PC and the other room to try stuff. A very annoying decision on Intel's part for taking Cyclone-II support out of Quartus at version 12.1.

Post by **exxos** » Wed May 13, 2020 11:54 am

Smonson wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 11:05 am I got the 34-pin IDC socket in the mail today, installed it and the floppy disk interface is working fine too. So now I have a fully-usable machine (albeit without sound)

Welcome to the club

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Wed May 13, 2020 11:58 am

Thanks! It's a very nice club to be in!

Post by **Icky** » Wed May 13, 2020 1:12 pm

Smonson wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 11:05 am I got the 34-pin IDC socket in the mail today, installed it and the floppy disk interface is working fine too. So now I have a fully-usable machine (albeit without sound)

One thing did change: now I have the jiggly screen effect that other people have had. Which is again good news, because I can attempt to resolve it.

Unfortunately Quartus 12 no longer runs on the latest Ubuntu and I don't have enough laptop disk space to install another OS so that's a bummer, I will be constantly walking between my PC and the other room to try stuff. A very annoying decision on Intel's part for taking Cyclone-II support out of Quartus at version 12.1.

Good job.

Your new HDMI Shifter board is in the post so you can move to the new version of Quartus

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Wed May 13, 2020 1:16 pm

Thanks again Icky for sending me one.

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Wed May 13, 2020 1:26 pm

I tried to mount the DB19 for the hard disk as well today but found I couldn't line up the strain-relief holes. Rather than chop up a fairly valuable connector I'm going to put in a cable in place of the socket, and hang it out the back, so I can work on my future hard disk interface.

Post by **exxos** » Wed May 13, 2020 1:36 pm

Smonson wrote: Wed May 13, 2020 1:26 pm I tried to mount the DB19 for the hard disk as well today but found I couldn't line up the strain-relief holes.

We know about it...

https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... =78&t=2403

Smonson · Post by **Smonson** » Wed May 13, 2020 2:10 pm

Yeah I figured someone else would have reported it, but nothing came up in the forum search.

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