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Just ordered mine, can't wait. Forgot to order the 50 Mhz OSC ; had only read the top part of the post and thought they came with.
Can't wait to enjoy higher rez on my falcon 30. I just starting reviving my falcon in December 22 from a 20 year sleep ... so much good has changed :)

oregfalcon30 wrote: 18 Jan 2023 01:24 Just ordered mine, can't wait. Forgot to order the 50 Mhz OSC ; had only read the top part of the post and thought they came with.
Can't wait to enjoy higher rez on my falcon 30. I just starting reviving my falcon in December 22 from a 20 year sleep ... so much good has changed :)

Without a bus-accelerated Falcon the 40MHz osc is probably the sweet spot anyway.

I think we need to put out a call for a developer to put together some lightweight screen extender software that works with both TOS & MiNT and is expecting a 40MHz clock. Something to pair nicely with this adapter.

Sadly I've found the ones that work under MiNT normally expect a 50MHz clock or are simply incomprehensible!

BW

Badwolf wrote: 18 Jan 2023 09:57

oregfalcon30 wrote: 18 Jan 2023 01:24 Just ordered mine, can't wait. Forgot to order the 50 Mhz OSC ; had only read the top part of the post and thought they came with.
Can't wait to enjoy higher rez on my falcon 30. I just starting reviving my falcon in December 22 from a 20 year sleep ... so much good has changed :)

Without a bus-accelerated Falcon the 40MHz osc is probably the sweet spot anyway.
BW

oh sorry, forgot to mention - I have a CT63 on the way :)

oregfalcon30 wrote: 18 Jan 2023 15:33

Badwolf wrote: 18 Jan 2023 09:57 Without a bus-accelerated Falcon the 40MHz osc is probably the sweet spot anyway.
BW

oh sorry, forgot to mention - I have a CT63 on the way :)

Ah, does that accelerate the bus too?

BW

Ah, don't know, we'll see.

CT63 does not by default accelerate the Falcon bus. It's got the necessary pads to add on bus acceleration hardware, and doing so requires some surgery on the Falcon motherboard as well, but in stock plug-and-play configuration the motherboard bus is untouched.

So got the CT63 and got it to work (that was a process, lol). Now, I just received my 3-in-1 adaptor today (glad Royal Mail issues got sorted out). Struggled a bit with blowup conf, then I am now enjoying 1024*768 on the falcon with the 50mhz crystal ; same configurations as my Mega STEs with their Mach32 or ET4000 cards. I am stoked :)

This post helped me:
https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.p ... &start=100

Cheers -- so happy to have high resolutions

what is the power requirement for the blowup board ?
The board I got with the Falcon I just bought has a USB A, is it an input for 5v ?
You said not using a phone charger, why ?

zfrenchy wrote: 24 May 2024 02:39 what is the power requirement for the blowup board ?

Around 100mA.

The board I got with the Falcon I just bought has a USB A, is it an input for 5v ?

Yes.

You said not using a phone charger, why ?

They tend to have very bad regulation on light loads. I tried to alleviate this problem on later builds by adding LEDs and load resistors.

Though I cannot really say which ones will / won't work properly. There is so much garbage on the market it is just better to assume they are all bad , even though that is not strictly the case. Really they need to be tried and scoped out to see what the regulations like. You certainly could try any, but you may have odd issues. It is why I recommend just using the proper regulated 5V USB PSU as opposed to charges which generally don't have any sort of proper regulation.

Thank you