Sep 232012
 

Today I started playing around with this EPROM PCB I recently got.
Before I do anything I needed to change a decoupling capacitor that has had its legs almost completely pulled out of the body.

The silkscreen says the EPROM’s should be 27C1000’s. I used 27C010’s as they are the same pinout.
27C1000 chips are 8 bit so the data must be split across 2 EPROM’s.
I looked for a rom 256KB in size and deinterleaved it into HI and LO files. Then burnt them onto the EPROM’s.
After taking a 50/50 chance on which way round these EPROM’s went (and getting it wrong) I found that the LO side goes on the bottom row of sockets and the HI on the upper rom.

I fired the thing up and…..

SWEET!

Now was also a good opportunity to test out my conversion of that old CK2605 PLA into a GAL22V10.

All good here too.
Quite satisfied with that. If only the new Angry Birds conversion would fit onto it.
Still have to do some testing and see what those DIP switches are used for

 Posted by at 12:10 pm
Sep 112012
 

Got my hands on this thing today

There are no EPROM’s in it yet but will knock some together when I get time and test it out.
It has a battery backed RAM and a bank of DIP’s that I have no clue yet as to what they do.

There is a CK2605 PLD at IC10 marked up as 315-5341.
I cannot find any programmer that will actually support these chips but it is known that they can be dumped as a PLS153 and Charles MacDonald has a utility that can trim the overdumped .JED and convert it to a functional PLS153 fusemap. I have uploaded this converted fuse map.

I have also decompiled the .JED into equations and converted it for a GAL22V10 which I will be able to use my converter board for. It is untested, obviously, as I haven’t had the thing up and running yet but will hopefully sort this soon.

 Posted by at 3:56 pm
Sep 092012
 

Quite a long time ago I had some more SD2IEC boards made up for the C64.

I hadnt really done anything with them and I had promised id make one up for Stiggy.
Today I finally got around to making one up and im pleased to say it seems to work.
The wires need tidied up a bit but it loaded up a game no problem.

And that was the last of my outstanding projects.

 Posted by at 12:29 pm

Hard Head bootleg PALs

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Sep 072012
 

Another from the set of Luiskiko
Hard Head bootleg.
All of these are from the daughter board

 Posted by at 4:42 pm
Aug 192012
 

I wasn’t originally going to write this up but seeing as though I won’t have much time free in a few weeks I thought I might as well.
So, this game would hang at the Q Sound check at startup. After a quick check I found why.

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I straightened the pin and the game now works.

 Posted by at 7:58 pm