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Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 11 May 2020 11:35
by Smonson
Yeah... It does a bit!
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 11 May 2020 11:38
by rubber_jonnie
Smonson wrote: 10 May 2020 13:23
Boom! It lives!
:excited:
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 :)
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 11:05
by Smonson
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.
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 11:54
by exxos
Smonson wrote: 13 May 2020 11:05
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 ;) :thumbup:
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 11:58
by Smonson
Thanks! It's a very nice club to be in!
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 13:12
by Icky
Smonson wrote: 13 May 2020 11:05
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 :)
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 13:16
by Smonson
Thanks again Icky for sending me one.
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 13:26
by Smonson
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.
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 13:36
by exxos
Smonson wrote: 13 May 2020 13:26
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
Re: Smonson's slow H4 build
Posted: 13 May 2020 14:10
by Smonson
Yeah I figured someone else would have reported it, but nothing came up in the forum search.