exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

Inspired by artik-wroc's work over on Atari Forum (link)

I ordered some PCB's and parts. Here is my build so far:

I have 4 blank PCBs if anyone wants.

How much do you want for a PCB?

rubber_jonnie wrote: 06 Feb 2025 18:34 How much do you want for a PCB?

Just a few quid for postage, just message me.

Steve wrote: 06 Feb 2025 18:35

rubber_jonnie wrote: 06 Feb 2025 18:34 How much do you want for a PCB?

Just a few quid for postage, just message me.

Cool, thanks.

Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?

Great work Steve! Interesting to see how you get on with the builds.

The blue PCB looks really good !

Have fun building this nice toy.

mikro wrote: 06 Feb 2025 20:42 Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?

About 4 chips I think. The et4k, the DAC and two ICS chips.

Steve wrote: 07 Feb 2025 01:15

mikro wrote: 06 Feb 2025 20:42 Wow! How many parts need to be desoldered from the original card?

About 4 chips I think. The et4k, the DAC and two ICS chips.

And the 8 memory chips for 1Mb of video ram. But they are in sockets usually.

This is a great idea, I hate having the cables coming out of my Mega STE. But an even cooler idea would be to do it for Mach 64 cards: the ISA versions are hard to find and very expensive, but the PCI versions are plentiful and cheap on eBay and elsewhere.