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Thank you Terriblefire!

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I've managed to get my build of a TF536 working today, and I'm extremely happy. Also the first time I've managed to hand solder SMD with that small a pitch with a 0.2mm tip.

Thanks to some hints in this forum I managed to figure out that some dry joints on the memory buffers were causing it not to boot kickstart. In DiagROM manually editing the RAM and refreshing showed where the issues were.

So thank you everyone, especially Terriblefire.

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LinuxJedi wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:01 So thank you everyone, especially Terriblefire.
You guys know i was drunk when i designed this board right? ;)
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terriblefire wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:10
LinuxJedi wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:01 So thank you everyone, especially Terriblefire.
You guys know i was drunk when i designed this board right? ;)
That's OK, I was clearly drunk when I first soldered those buffers, even missed the dry joints under a scope :D

Also, sometimes the best engineering work comes from drinking: https://xkcd.com/323/ :D
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terriblefire wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:10
LinuxJedi wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:01 So thank you everyone, especially Terriblefire.
You guys know i was drunk when i designed this board right? ;)
I thought you always were?
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PhilC wrote: 15 Dec 2020 14:11 I thought you always were?
Thats not nice. :chairsmack: :lol:

IIRC he likes to smell it more than drink it..

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Yeah Thanks, Stephen. I loved building my two TF534's.
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Lynxman wrote: 15 Dec 2020 20:39 Yeah Thanks, Steven. I loved building my two TF534's.
I actually started with a TF534. Bought a dead one cheap where someone managed to badly damage the xtal and the PCB traces around it, after repairing that I wanted to try one from scratch :)

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terriblefire wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:10
LinuxJedi wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:01 So thank you everyone, especially Terriblefire.
You guys know i was drunk when i designed this board right? ;)
Imagine what you could do when sober;)
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terriblefire wrote: 15 Dec 2020 12:10 You guys know i was drunk when i designed this board right? ;)
So that's the secret.. quickly! let's fuel @terriblefire with more alcohol :)

But seriously though, a huge thank you for the TF534 and TF536. Both very nice boards and I wouldn't want to use my Atari without them.
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agranlund wrote: 16 Dec 2020 13:13 [
But seriously though, a huge thank you for the TF534 and TF536. Both very nice boards and I wouldn't want to use my Atari without them.
Definitely second that, TF534 was an excellent upgrade, TF536 was even better and a lot easier to build, :cheers: terriblefire
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