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Icky wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:19 pm I just received some board this morning to make a neater job of my diabolical wiring hack to get the 16MHz mod working.
oh ?
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Ok, so know what the chips are, what's the idea behind it then?
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PhilC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:40 pm Ok, so know what the chips are, what's the idea behind it then?
We are replacing the clocks generated by the MMU & shifter with our own clock driver...
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Ok, that makes sense. :D

Are you doubling all clocks out of interest? 4mhz etc.
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PhilC wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:49 pm Are you doubling all clocks out of interest? 4mhz etc.
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exxos wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:22 pm
Icky wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 4:19 pm I just received some board this morning to make a neater job of my diabolical wiring hack to get the 16MHz mod working.
oh ?
Yeah my soldering is not to great and wanted to clean up what we had done. Taking your lead with some prototyping board to make it neater. My OCD is playing havoc with me looking at the wires I have soldered. :)
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This is oldskool....

... And boring...

.. And annoying...

:lol:

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I was doing my Mega bus adaptor like that and got bored half way through. Now doing it on Eagle
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exxos wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 5:04 pm This is oldskool....

... And boring...

.. And annoying...

:lol:
Been doing the same but fell at the first hurdle. I could not find my old skool tools.
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Icky wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 5:41 pm Been doing the same but fell at the first hurdle. I could not find my old skool tools.
Took me a while to find my track cutter :lol:
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