Commodore Amiga Phoenix PCB PALs/GALs

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Mar 102012
 

During my random internet searches I came across some PAL dumps for a rare version of an Amiga 1000 motherboard.
I still don’t know completely what this board does over an original.

After contacting a few people from the forums asking for permission to offer these up for download I was given the name Andrew J Wilson who is the developer of the board.
I cant seem to find this guy to ask his permission so, Andrew if you ever read this and aren’t happy with me hosting them just let me know.
The files are in a .zip file and there is also a dump of the SCSI controller EPROM in there.

Thanks to jopower from the a1k.org forums and DonutKing from Vintage-Computer.com forums for their help.

 Posted by at 5:34 pm

Taito Super Chase PALs

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Mar 022012
 

Got a broken Super Chase board the other day.
All the PALs were unprotected and have been added. There are 10 in total!

 Posted by at 12:24 pm

Added the last Street Smart PAL

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Feb 262012
 

Today, for no reason other than proving to myself I could, I manually reverse engineered a PAL22L10 from my Street Smart board.
The PAL at location D11 was the only one on this board that was security locked so until now I couldn’t copy it.
Using the ABI to test I went through each pin individually and derived equations.
After my first attempt I thought I actually had it sorted but…..

Altogether it took quite a few hours to do so will probably not do this too often but the option is there should I need to but finally the game booted up and all the outputs on my clone match the original.

 Posted by at 7:04 pm

Namco PAL added

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Feb 212012
 

I was contacted a few weeks ago with regards to dumping a PAL from a Namco PCB. The PAL is labelled SYS2V-2.
The chip arrived yesterday from Italy and it turned out to be the most difficult PAL16L8 to dump yet.
The output from the ABI was fairly unusable as it produced FAR too many product terms for some of the pins and would not compile.
Most of the pins were fairly easy to figure out from the listing but pin 12 was a little bit crazy. After a night with the logic analyser hooked up to it I had something that was almost the same in my simulation as what the real chip did. There was one state that did not match up but I emailed the .JED files anyway to see if I was anywhere near. Well so far so good as 2 of the games it was tested on seem to work now.
Although I cant test this myself Im hopeful its OK and its on my download list now.

 Posted by at 5:42 pm

Another Pole Position PAL

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Feb 122012
 

MrDo has sent me the equations for the PLDs at 7C and 2N.
I already had the ones at 7C but his equations can be seen in the comments to the first Pole Position PAL dump post.
The second dump from 2N I did not have and I have compiled it using WinCUPL.
I dont have a PP board to test this but MrDo has confirmed it working so will be marking it as Tested.

Thanks MrDo

 Posted by at 7:52 pm