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Hey John !
Please put me down for two of these boards. Thanks! Matt Turner > From: mon...@vitasoft.org > To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com; n8...@googlegroups.com > CC: le...@swiftdsl.com.au; nbre...@comcast.net; andrew...@sbcglobal.net > Subject: [N8VEM-S100:5339] A New S100 Video MSX compatible board. > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:01:53 -0700 > > Guys I'm about to place a board production order for a MSX - VDP S100 video > board. This is a video board that is constructed to allow one to utilize > some of the Z80 software for the MSX computers from way back. Please see > here for a brief introduction and some early history. > > http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/VDP%20Video%20Board/VDP%20Board > .htm > > The project itself has a long and convoluted history with some of us. > Initially proposed by Andrew and others probably over two years ago, there > were a number of "challenges" actually getting VGA style video outputs. In > the end it became clear that the most practical way to get VGA style video > from the Yamaha V9938 was to use an external RGB to VGA converter box/board. > These are still fairly common and easy to interface. The board uses the > same video and sound chips/ports as those used in the original MSX > computers. Interestingly there are still people that program (games) for > these systems. See for example:- > > http://www.msx.org/forum/msx-talk/software/software-s-100-bus-computer-using > -msx-video-hardware#comment-230437 > > That said, this board is in dire need of programming support. Only two > rudimentary test routines are supplied by me with the hardware and are on > the above web page. > > I would like to acknowledge the big help of Leon Byles (Australia) and Neil > Breeden is figuring out the final circuits for this board and helping with > the (3) prototype boards. Also of course Andrew in doing the early prototype > KiCAD drawings. > > I am attaching a picture of the final KiCAD layout drawing. (This BTW is my > second complete KiCAD board -- finally gotten the hang of the software! ) > The .exe Freerouter converged to a final layout in 1 hour! > > Anyway as I said , I'm going to order 3 boards for myself, and while this is > a very specialized board and probably not of general use, I'm open to > adding others to the order list. In all probability this will be a onetime > order event. Will have the board done by PCBCart running probably > somewhere in the high $ teens/board . > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to n8vem-s100+...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |