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Wednesday, 25 October 2017

EXXOS FORUM - BLOG CLOSURE

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With my new forum now be able to do a lot more than my blog, I think it is unlikely I will continue to update my blog from now on. My d...
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Friday, 15 September 2017

GEMBENCH BUILD 27 RELEASED

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Current release build 27. For the download see my website below http://www.exxoshost.co.uk/atari/last/GB6/index.htm For  further informat...
Monday, 4 September 2017

PeST NOW ON SALE

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14 now in stock. Shipping will start towards the end of the week. If they sell quick, I may considering doing another small batch in the...
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Thursday, 31 August 2017

NEW PeST BATCH IN THE MAKING

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PeST is the acronym for PS2 Enumerator for the Atari ST. It enables any PS2 mouse to be used with the Atari ST / STF / STFM / STE / Meg...
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Thursday, 24 August 2017

FALCON RTC MODULES ALMOST COMPLETED

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All awaiting testing now (when I have time) MORE INFO http://exxosnews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/falcon-rtc-module.html STORE LINK htt...
Monday, 21 August 2017

NEW FORUM

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After much consideration for almost 2 years now, I have opened up my own forum. This forum is for current hardware developments of mine...
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Monday, 14 August 2017

PLCC SOCKETS ARE EVIL

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While testing out a booster prototype I found that it refused to work with the 68HC000 CPU.  I first thought that there was some problem ...
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Friday, 11 August 2017

STF REMAKE PROGRESS - NEW LAYOUT

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It quickly came apparent that my first design was simply to large :(  So a total re-think was in order. This is only a "quick"...
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Monday, 7 August 2017

ST REMAKE PROGRESS

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100% routed :) Well maybe not exactly as I have a epic amount of tidying up to do yet.  I also need to add in de-coupling caps and the r...
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Sunday, 30 July 2017

NEW STF MOTHERBOARD PROGRESS

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So far about 20 hours work into routing. Only 600 wires to go... I was trying to keep all the PLCC IC's pointing upwards, though it ...
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Monday, 24 July 2017

RTC CARTRIDGE - PART 2

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Last blog entry https://exxosnews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/rtc-cartridge-in-making.html Prototype cartridge PCB arrived.  This uses my li...
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Friday, 21 July 2017

4MB RAM PCB ASSEMBLY NIGHTMARE - PART 2

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Further to my previous post http://exxosnews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/4mb-ram-pcb-assembly-nightmare.html I have been trying for days to...
Tuesday, 18 July 2017

NEW 30 PIN SIMM PRODUCTION 2ND BATCH

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More 30 pin simms being produced today. First up I got a new "pasting jig" made.  The engineer is likely no longer talking to ...
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Sunday, 16 July 2017

V2 BOOSTER RE-VAMP

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I actually wasn't planning to produce the V2 booster again. Though a chap said he is interested in them to mod machines with. Though ...

STFM REBUILD OVERVIEW OF BASIC CHANGES

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Further to my previous blog entry about designing a new STFM motherboard.. http://exxosnews.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/super-stfm-motherboard-...
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Thursday, 13 July 2017

STE BOOSTER POWERED BY ALTERA TEST

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Finally got the STE booster powered by a Altera chip! For those not keeping up, I have moved away from "Coding" PLD's to dra...
Monday, 10 July 2017

PAST V2 BOOSTER PROTOTYPES

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  The final V2 booster design as listed above had a great many prototypes before it reached a working versions which I was ...
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Sunday, 9 July 2017

SUPER STFM MOTHERBOARD PROJECT

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Myself and Rodolphe Pineau have long since talked about creating a new motherboard but felt it was a lot of work to which would be very time...
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Saturday, 8 July 2017

4MB RAM PCB ASSEMBLY NIGHTMARE

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As the cost of assembly was so high in the 4MB RAM upgrades, I have been plotting for a long time to assemble them myself.  I did try a c...
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