From PAL to Verilog: Writing the A4092 Logic from Scratch
Rewriting 90s PAL glue logic in Verilog for a CPLD — a journey from thermally alarming bus transceivers to maxing out the SCSI bus.
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Blog Reloaded.
A new age for this blog.
Vintage Computer Festival(s)
Hi there, it’s been a while. Somewhere down the line life happened and wait, not one, not two, but three Vintage Computer Festivals have happened s...
All good things …
… come in threes, they say, or “Aller guten Dinge sind drei” in my native tongue German. And so I set out to make a third and final attempt at reli...
Finding common GND
Alright, there is some progress on the front of my 68040 to 68060 adapters. In the last month I have made a serious improvement of my lab: a simul ...
68040 to 68060
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, when the Amiga was relevant as a technical revolution, I was never able to lay my hands on anything beyond an 6...
iKod.se int7 adapter
Don’t you know the feeling when you’re just on cloud 7 with your Amiga?
Winter is coming…
I have not been keeping up well with this blog in the last few months. Starting a new job definitely does that to this sort of project. I did spend...
Cyber, Cyber!
Or was it “Hyper, hyper!“? Scooter, please help a child of the 80s and 90s out here! This episode is about shuffling hardware, and what it takes to...
Everybody gets a second chance
… and even more obviously, everybody needs a second recap in their quarantined life. After the recap of my A3640 went surprisingly well, and even r...
Rock around the clock
… When I have been playing my overclocking games, I was sourcing a lot of oscillators from eBay. One thing I noticed was that there are a lot more ...
Das Labor
Ok. I have to make a confession. I’m really awful at keeping organized. And if I let my inner engineer engineer out for an evening or two, it can g...
¡Una hija para mi Amiga!
The heat wave has hit Mountain View these last few days and caused a power outage for the better part of the weekend, so between 40C/105F and no el...
The first cut is the deepest!
A few days ago I did some temperature measurements with my zz9000 graphics card from MNT GmbH in Germany, which turned out to be surprisingly hot. ...
A tale of two diodes…
What happens to long lived electrical engineers? They diode!
Fake flash!
I’ve heard of the whole Chinese relabeling industry, but in the past I have always been lucky with my eBay purchases. Until this last time.
Keyboard fun!
My keyboard is missing a key. There’s no escape!
Just a small upgrade
Lots of things happening at work, so it’s good to do a little meditation by soldering in the evening. Guillaume sent me a Greaseweazle kit but the ...
Recap of a revised recap
When I got my A4000 late last year, I could not have been a happier kid. I fleas surprised to get it for a fabulous price and it arrived just in ti...
I’m back.
It has been 10 years since I have moved to the US and therefore had left all my Amiga gear behind. “I can always run UAE” I thought. But some goodb...