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5x boards ordered. SMT placement also being done by manufacturer. :)

Manufacturer has just finished building the Phoenix BLUE boards. With the Phoenix MMU boards also complete they will ship back to us for testing.

And they have arrived

:bravo: :girldance:

Cool!

Are we on for a demo at CL4 then? :D

:poke:

I ran the Phoenix BLUE in BLITTER test mode on a test board I created to check that all the lines are working and with a core that @ijor provided to run the tests. Flashes all lines and then walks through each. Next step is to test the Blitter core on this board in my H5.

JezC wrote: 19 Sep 2025 19:50 Cool!

Are we on for a demo at CL4 then? :D

:poke:

So we might be on for a Blitter demo at CL4 if all goes well 🤞

Icky wrote: 20 Sep 2025 08:36
So we might be on for a Blitter demo at CL4 if all goes well 🤞

I think I can watch that video the whole weekend :)

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Icky wrote: 03 Sep 2025 12:31 Small update on the Phoenix BLUE. We are ready to start manufacture of the first 5 boards and we are just awaiting a few parts to come in at the PCB fab. Hoping to get these back mid September, of course that doesn't mean they will work out the box as we need to refine and develop the cores. We will keep you posted on progress.


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This looks very cool!

GadgetUK164 wrote: 20 Sep 2025 22:48 This looks very cool!

Thanks @GadgetUK164.

Another update from this weekends effort. We have a set built for @ijor and myself. By a set I mean 1x Phoenix MMU plus 2x Phoenix BLUEs, the first of which is set up in BLITTER mode and the second setup in GLUE mode. This set pictured is Ijor's :)


So far we have, because I couldn't wait, put the original core that @ijor got working on the original large Sparkalaphoba board we used many moons ago and it ran. However we need to do some more testing and understanding these boards. Once GLUE and MMU boards have gone through initial testing we will look at those cores as well.

Picture of Phoenix BLUE running nestled at the back of my H5 Dev build: