Beiträge von JohnFante

    JohnFante: Great that all is working, I had a similar stumble with the jumper setting. I found this really useful as an introduction.

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    Thank you :thumbsup:

    Have been through that and you are completely right, a lot of useful info.

    I have been using a Chamelon with my C64C up to now so a lot of ground to cover. For instance I had to add a PI1541 to my setup to get accurate floppy emulation.

    BTW: Is the standard C64C powersupply normally good enough to power the SideKick64 also (by adding the power jumper)? Have never had any issues with my Chameleon.

    JohnFante: Check that your display has the same pin order on the left as mine (GND, VCC, ...) and then you can copy the solder jumper settings from my pictures below. Basically setting the solder jumpers assigns GND to the leftmost pin and VCC to the second pin from the left. If you use a display that has the order different you will damage your display as long as the solder jumpers are not set accordingly.

    In fact, the addition of those solder jumpers on the PCB are more a protection targetted at the smaller monochrome OLED displays as they are the ones that are available with different pinouts. For the bigger colour TFT we are using here (ST7789) I have personally never seen different pinouts no matter from where you buy.

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    Neuankunft, direkt von unterm Lötkolben rausgesprungen! JLCPCB hat sich diesmal selbst übertroffen, so schnell habe ich noch nie Platinen geliefert bekommen.

    EDIT: By the way: This quoted posting is nearly exactly one year old. :)

    It lives :D

    Thank you all for the help! :thumbsup:

    Now it is time to start learning how to use it probably 8). Any guides, usermanuals etc. I should be aware of?

    JohnFante: Check that your display has the same pin order on the left as mine (GND, VCC, ...) and then you can copy the solder jumper settings from my pictures below. Basically setting the solder jumpers assigns GND to the leftmost pin and VCC to the second pin from the left. If you use a display that has the order different you will damage your display as long as the solder jumpers are not set accordingly.

    In fact, the addition of those solder jumpers on the PCB are more a protection targetted at the smaller monochrome OLED displays as they are the ones that are available with different pinouts. For the bigger colour TFT we are using here (ST7789) I have personally never seen different pinouts no matter from where you buy.

    Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.  Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.  Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.  Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.  Bitte melde dich an, um diesen Anhang zu sehen.

    Neuankunft, direkt von unterm Lötkolben rausgesprungen! JLCPCB hat sich diesmal selbst übertroffen, so schnell habe ich noch nie Platinen geliefert bekommen.

    EDIT: By the way: This quoted posting is nearly exactly one year old. :)

    Thank you very much. Highly appreciated. I think that should do the trick.

    I soldered the display directly to the PCB X/ (it was late ....) ... so I have a bit of a cleanup operation first ... ;( Hopefully I did not mess it up too much ...

    Just a quick question since I am a bit unsure if I may have damaged my RGB TFT during assembly. If I have enabled "DISPLAY ST7789" in sidekick64.cfg do I get a picture on the screen on first boot or do I have to do anything else to get output to the TFT?

    you should get a picture on the display. Did you close the solder jumpers (below the TFT) accordingly?

    No I did not X/ ... Was not aware that I should. I am not a big electronics wiz so I just followed pictures I found of an assembly online. Is there a picture/guide (or something similar) of that part online?

    And thank you for a great device :thumbsup:

    Sorry in advance that this is in English! My German is just too bad. Feel free to answer in German thou :smile: And thank you in advance!

    I have just assembled my Sidekick64. Very nice pice of kit.

    Just a quick question since I am a bit unsure if I may have damaged my RGB TFT during assembly. If I have enabled "DISPLAY ST7789" in sidekick64.cfg do I get a picture on the screen on first boot or do I have to do anything else to get output to the TFT?