Seems a good enough opportunity to announce the new revision of the Compact Flash interface for use with the Atom and B-DOS, to which i've added a few new features to my exisiting design.
It's now got an LED to show if the interface is powered and has a Compact Flash card inserted correctly, and a second LED flashes to show when the CF card is being accessed. Other trivial improvements include reorientating the IDE connector so it matches the 'standard' direction with PIN1 on the right hand side when looking at the back, to match the way it is orientated on normal hard drives and CD-ROM drives. I've also modified the PCB so that two of these interfaces can be stacked to make a dual unit - with one card acting as the master device and the second card as the slave. Once I have soldered together a dual Compact Flash unit and tested it with the Atom and B-DOS on the Sam i'll report my findings! The price of the Compact Flash Interface remains unchanged, keeping it priced at �17.99, and it can still be fitted with an optional ejector button for an additional �4.50. A quick photo can be found at: http://www.quazar.clara.net/cfrev3a.jpg And to answer Edwin's poll, I use CF with the Atom on my Sams, with a few 128MB and 256MB Samsung CF cards :) All the best, Colin. ==== Quazar : Hardware, Software, Spares and Repairs for the Sam Coupe Website: http://www.quazar.clara.net/sam/ Issue Eight of "Sam Revival" Magazine Out Soon!
