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So I figured out which points on the backplane expose the up/down links in my topology diagram. I knew they were exposed there, just had to identify them exactly.

Unfortunately the pins are too short to attempt wirewrap so I just soldered them.



Two boards now installed on the backplane:



Two boards detected and ready to go:

dml wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:28 Two boards now installed on the backplane:

Holy macarone, Batman! :o

BW

dml wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:24

rubber_jonnie wrote: 27 Sep 2026 14:00 You'll be running your own AI on it soon enough!

It seems like we're not in short supply right now :-)

A contributor on the ATW800 channel has actually done this (running a very very tiny model, on the root Transputer) as an experiment.

Nice, is there a link to that at all please?

Badwolf wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:36 Holy macarone, Batman! :o

:D

They're only 20MHz - but each one (each CPU) has a pretty fast FPU and 4MB of RAM, which is nice!

rubber_jonnie wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:36 Nice, is there a link to that at all please?

I have no idea what the discord channel's policy is on posting invite links (bots etc.) so I PM'd you. :)

dml wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:49

rubber_jonnie wrote: 01 Oct 2026 09:36 Nice, is there a link to that at all please?

I have no idea what the discord channel's policy is on posting invite links (bots etc.) so I PM'd you. :)

I saw, thanks :)

dml wrote: 27 Sep 2026 13:51 I think we completed bullet 1 on plan list 2:

next part should be:

- make code run on it <----- we are here
- escalate things in all directions
- render some Babylon 5 on it

That means we unlock the escalate-things step! Now there's two of them.

I need to figure out from my notes which tie points will get them talking. Time for some wire-wrapping....

At this rate, you aren’t just going to render some B5 on it, you’ll end building an Atari ST-based Unity competitor for real-time rendering scenes to drive a virtual production LED video wall :)

Steven

SteveBagley wrote: 02 Oct 2026 00:10 you’ll end building an Atari ST-based Unity competitor for real-time rendering scenes to drive a virtual production LED video wall :)

It does need to have something realtime tried on it - but I think I want a holiday first :)

So this is the final thing, sort of. It doesn't have a box though.



It's a bit precarious but it runs.

Wowsers. Where did you find something like that? I've had my eye open everywhere but only seen prices skyrocket since the launch of ATW800/2