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Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 10 May 2024 20:30
by tOriman
Hi,

I am pleased to announce that the Vortex AtOnce-386SX emulator has been reverse-engineered and reproduced. I found the type of FPGA used and read the information from the protected GAL chip. All of this was possible thanks to very generous donors tIn and GGN. Hats off to them and many thanks for providing the devices. tIn sent the DIP version and GGN sent the PLCC version.

For now, this is the DIP version for the Atari ST and MegaST. A PCB for the PLCC version for the Atari MegaSTe is on the way. When I finish all the work on the project - the documentation of both versions will be published on the www - as always - for free.

Cheers
tOri

atonce.jpg
The EMulator in my MegaST4

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 10 May 2024 20:58
by Icky
Nice work

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 10 May 2024 21:00
by stephen_usher
That's a lot of work!

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 10 May 2024 22:15
by exxos
:bravo:

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 11 May 2024 06:56
by agranlund
That is absolutely awesome! Great work!

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 11 May 2024 08:41
by HomeLate
Great work!

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 11 May 2024 09:00
by rubber_jonnie
Good stuff :)

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 17 May 2024 22:38
by tOriman
Hi!

Documentation of DIP version of ATonce-386SX PC emulator has been published on my www in Atari 16-bit section. I invite all interested in...

https://reversing.pl/atari16bit/v386sxd ... sxdip.html

Please use Google Translator to read because site is written in Polish language.

Cheers
tOri

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 18 May 2024 18:34
by DoG
Awesome. Great work. I will probably try to build one of these. :P

By the way, I saw on the Polish forum that you did a relocator board for MegaST. Is that finished and do you plan to publish that? ;)

Re: Vortex Atonce386sx has been reverse-engineered and reproduced

Posted: 18 May 2024 21:09
by tOriman
Hi DoG,

Yes - I made a simple relocator. I will post the files of this project on the www. Basically, it is a parallelization of the processor except that resistors 33R have been placed in each line between the pads.

I am working on MegaSTe version of ATonce now.

It is possible to make relocator for MegaSTe or STe too because I found good solution for the PLCC68 plugin using 1,27mm angled goldpins and 3Dprinted insert. I've used it in MegaSTe prototype of ATonce-386SX.

tOri