🇬🇧 Sinclair ZX Spectrum: Part 3 (Refurbishing continues) [TCE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2024
- Work continues on refurbishing this Issue 2 Speccy in a Fuller FDS case. Unfortunately it seems I've encountered an issue with the Speccy now so more troubleshooting is required.
Ivan, a subscriber, very kindly donated one of his 128KByte RAM expansion boards so I am looking forward to trying that out - my first package from 🇷🇸 Serbia! In order for it to work you need to disable the upper 32KBytes of internal RAM, which I've done by adding a switch to inhibit the !CAS signal for that bank of RAM (make one OR gate input on IC23 always HIGH by connecting to +5V thus forcing the output HIGH, thus disabling !CAS).
I've verified the switch works by executing "PRINT PEEK 23732 + 256 * PEEK 23733" : I get 65535 (full 48KBytes), or 32767 (upper 32KBytes disabled).
However, after this it seems things started to go awry (nothing to do with Ivan's board).
I've added in various right-angled plugs for MIC/EAR and power, and replaced the original [RESET] button. I've also strengthened the keyboard cables.
I now have a vLA82 and a vLA1 - the vLA82 replaces the original ULA and also adds RGBS output (Harlequin or Spectrum +2 pinout apparently).
The vLA1 replaces the ULA in the ZX Interface 1 (not worried about that at the moment).
Link to Ivan's Github:
github.com/goloskokovic/zx16t...
That time I went to 🇦🇱 Albania (day trip via ferry from Corfu):
• 🇦🇱 Daytrip to Saranda,...
Replacement ULAs:
www.vretrodesign.com - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
@27:12 it looks like you didn't get the solder to flow up the pins to coat the bottom as well as the top of the board. That may be it.
Hmmm ... good observation. I'll re-flow them. Otherwise, I had another look and can't see anything else that could be amiss ...
@@Brfff I've had that bite a couple of times. Pain in the ass.