Beiträge von mega65 im Thema „MEGA65 Production Update 17.04.2020“

    Anton has the situation fairly well summed up: We are too busy finishing the machine off, to implement specific things for them. However, by having them there, it means that there are no ports that were on the C65 or C64, that are not possible to replicate on the MEGA65, without having to get the power drill and dremel out to modify the case.

    Thus, if we (or someone else) has time at some point to design a userport, tape, component video output and/or 1565 external disk drive expansion board, this will be quite possible to do so. We did take care doing some quite creative "cable origami" tests to make sure that everythingn can in fact fit in to accommodate such a board -- but that is all the time we are able to bring to this particular angle for now.

    But if there is someone with PCB design experience, we'd love to see a PCB layout to provide these ports. Even just making the board outline with the ports, without worrying about the connecting electronics would help to accelerate things later, and/or might just reduce the remaining problem enough that someone else in the community can do the next part. This is one of the great things about open-source: The work can be divided, while the fun gets multiplied :)

    LG

    Paul.