exxos blog - random goings on

[exxos]

Got my USB splitter and adapter cables all hacked in. It may not look pretty but I don't care any more :lol: Just need to figure out how to get the side panels back on the case!

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*SHOVES*

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:girldance: :girldance: :girldance:

[exxos]

Its day 15,695 of "it's one of those days again"

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Now where's me hammer..

[Badwolf]

Another fatality. :cry:

Hermes special or seller's packing?

BW

[exxos]

Hermes special or seller's packing?

Courier does not really seem to matter. I have had some extremely well packaged and they still arrived smashed to pieces. I am not overly to bothered, because I'm only buying them as scrap machines anyway. Rob their souls so others may live...

[exxos]

Finally got another power adapter up..

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Now I can turn om/off my "Atari extension" without having to keep getting up off my chair :D

I can also plug-in battery charges without having to keep unplugging stuff all the time as well.

Just don't look under the desk to how many power adapters there is under there as well :lol:

[exxos]

As I use headphones and the lead really needs changing because it is crackling. I thought I would use my Sony headphones as it has Bluetooth support. I purchased one of these. Which turned out to be a total POS.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403841546250

It comes with this version of driver BRLink_V_1.1.0.21 Which simply does not allow me to turn on the Bluetooth. Ironically something popped up there was a update to driver BRLink_V_1.1.0.29. However this file does not exist anywhere because the manufacturers site seems to have taken it down. I went through every link on Google trying to find the file and ultimately gave up. Most of them were just broken links in Chinese.

Later I find version BRLink_V_1.1.0.31 Which installs and allows me to turn on the Bluetooth however it intermittently disconnects every few seconds and it just refuses to stay connected. Spent the usual two hours of searching trying out various things which are all pointless or not relevant.

So I give up with the thing. Just like every other cheep piece of hardware out there is, it's just total garbage. Annoying thing is as well that even when it is working the volume is incredibly low despite everything been turned up to 100%. I spent two hours yesterday looking into that problem and there is no solution to that either.

The amount of time I spent messing around with this thing I could have just purchased a new lead from my headphones and sold it on. Cannot beat good old wires. You know where you stand with them!

Problem with that is it is normally cheaper to buy new headphones than buy a new cable. Of course they don't make my headphones any more. Plenty of alternatives I guess but none of them with the volume on the side which I like. :roll: So I guess I will just look for a curly cable and just change it and have done with it all.

[exxos]

Not feeling well at the moment :cry: Just been pottering about and did this new design.. probably won't work, but it does on paper :lol:

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[PhilC]

@exxos is it going to sit on top of the Glue? or CPU?

[exxos]

@exxos is it going to sit on top of the Glue? or CPU?

GLUE.

A little sad that the GLUE does not have the databus on it otherwise I could have slapped a ROM socket on it :(

Mostly I just get a bit annoyed as there is no simple way of quickly adding TOS206 decoding to my original boards without having to remove the CPU and faff about etc. So aside from the DUALTOS board still being needed, it will save a lot of work. Even soldering stuff to the CPU is a bit of a pain as you need to get at the back of it which is not easy anyway.

No PLD's on this board it is pure logic. I was scribbling down the circuit last night being half asleep with a migraine. So probably won't work. :lol:

[exxos]

Hmm.... :lol:

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