exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

exxos wrote: 31 May 2019 15:59

PhilC wrote: 31 May 2019 15:53 Looks great. Only suggestion I would make whilst seeing it in situ would be to change the jumper location to above the monitor socket perhaps?

Yeah, I was in two minds When designing it where to put it, but I went with compact on this version, but I might move it above like you say as it is a bit hard to get at where it is, but how often would people change it anyway..

Play games in colour and then switch to mono for Spectre GCR and Mac mode, and back again. :-)

stephen_usher wrote: 31 May 2019 16:50 Play games in colour and then switch to mono for Spectre GCR and Mac mode, and back again. :-)

Fair enough :)

How it "fits" on the MEGA ST...


Jumper moved...
Audio pads fixed...

I guess that it'll need a sturdy 3D printed case. I can see a slight tug on the VGA cable causing the PCB to break just above the pins.

stephen_usher wrote: 31 May 2019 18:53 I guess that it'll need a sturdy 3D printed case. I can see a slight tug on the VGA cable causing the PCB to break just above the pins.

I've tried breaking the PCB and can't do it. Someone really would have to bash the thing to hell to break it.. but likely break the ST socket well before that anyway. Unfortunately its the only way it will fit on the MEGA ST. The UBE had the VGA connector on the bottom which I think was better, but it doesn't fit the MEGA. So can't have it both ways unfortunately.

It will be nice to actually have the choice of plugging a floppy in, unlike with the UBE one.

PhilC wrote: 31 May 2019 20:56 It will be nice to actually have the choice of plugging a floppy in, unlike with the UBE one.

I just checked with a floppy connector and there is a little bit of play room , so I angled the corners a little more...

Yeah that'll help with PCB strength

rubber_jonnie wrote: 23 May 2019 09:01

exxos wrote: 22 May 2019 22:52

:bravo:

Not impressed, the print job stopped about 2 hours in for some reason. At first I thought my print server had rebooted, but no. No logs as to why it stopped either. Need to print it again now :(

Reprinted last night, took about 3 hours, so not my longest job (6-7 hours is the longest), here is the result:
Sill needs cleaning up. I'm doing another PSU recap soon so I may see how good a fit it is whilst I have it stripped down.

rubber_jonnie wrote: 03 Jun 2019 10:05 Reprinted last night, took about 3 hours, so not my longest job (6-7 hours is the longest), here is the result:
Sill needs cleaning up. I'm doing another PSU recap soon so I may see how good a fit it is whilst I have it stripped down.

Looking good! Had forgotten all about the PSU bracket in the mix of everything.