520ST PSU Remake

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Nice! I'm half tempted to do a similar thing ... But oh no.. More ideas...
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exxos wrote: 20 Apr 2019 16:03 Nice! I'm half tempted to do a similar thing ... But oh no.. More ideas...
I think we all want to see the case in blue ABS.....
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 20 Apr 2019 16:40
exxos wrote: 20 Apr 2019 16:03 Nice! I'm half tempted to do a similar thing ... But oh no.. More ideas...
I think we all want to see the case in blue ABS.....
Not much blue left :( Likely be onto the pink next if its ABS.
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You know you wanted to use the pink in the first place :D

Looks good RJ and know what you mean with the 0.3 bit.
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Oooh, pink would be awesome, you could corner the ladies retro market 😁
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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rubber_jonnie wrote: 20 Apr 2019 21:11 Oooh, pink would be awesome, you could corner the ladies retro market 😁
:lol: :lolbig: :dizzy:
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@rubber_jonnie thanks for posting the how to, I've used it to build myself a PSU for my STM.

So now all I need to do is fix it,. Booted to white border and black foreground, ie memory.
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PhilC wrote: 13 Aug 2020 13:13 @rubber_jonnie thanks for posting the how to, I've used it to build myself a PSU for my STM.

So now all I need to do is fix it,. Booted to white border and black foreground, ie memory.
Awesome, glad it was good for somebody else :) Have you 3d Printed a case? If so how did it turn out?

As for the black screen/white border, if you can use a diag cart you may get an idea of where the problem is (Mine had an ageing piggy back upgrade). In the end mine was fixed, then it failed, so I fed it one of exxos' 4MB MMU/Shifter upgrades after removing all the RAM. Works just lovely now :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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@rubber_jonnie actually I lucked out. I removed the glue and mmu which were already nice and clean but someone had bent a couple of the pins.

And whilst I was at it I threw in 6 new tos roms and were up and running with tos1.04 now :D
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P.s. not done the case yet as I dont have any pink stuff to print with :lol:
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