Hi John, Please put me down for 1ea. MSX board.
Thank you, Robert Greenstreet -----Original Message----- >From: John Monahan <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 8, 2014 9:01 PM >To: [email protected], 'N8VEM' <[email protected]> >Cc: Leon Byles <[email protected]>, Neil Breeden <[email protected]>, >Andrew Lynch <[email protected]> >Subject: [N8VEM-S100:5339] A New S100 Video MSX compatible board. > >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 [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
