News

It seems that Coin Op Collection have completed a Snow Bros core for MiSTer before I did. Not really surprising since I have taken ages on this one. I had suffered from one of the same problems as they did, so at least I was on the right track.

For the moment I will look into the missing sound circuits on Cosmo (Space Invaders hardware) and then better analogue sound for Galaxian.

The 68000 based core I was working on is not totally redundant as it may be revisited later with a view to running a different game!

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I have made a change to the checkout form for the shop, a phone number is now required. This is because shipping to some countries with Royal Mail now requires this and it saves me having to email you to ask for one.

One of the users discovered a minor problem with the Fluke pod converter PCB which causes problems mainly when used on Zaccaria pinball PCBs.

It seems I missed one of the tracks off from the original article that connects the INTACK signal to GND.

This has been fixed on the latest PCBs, but if you have this problem see the main page for info on where to add a link to fix it.

Just a quick shot as it appears I have finally got the code for the Pandora graphics chip to work as intended. This is not running game code, I just grabbed the memory content for the colour and sprite registers and load it for testing, but after several false starts it is finally behaving itself. (I did have a previous version that worked and was much quicker, unfortunately it required about 80,000 LUTs)

Ignore the rows of numbers at the top of the screen, I used them for debugging things. The only important one is the 83, which shows that the screen was complete on the 131st vertical scan line, so plenty of room to manoeuvre for extra sprites.

The post office have now made adjustments to allow shipping to the USA once again.

Any items now sent to the USA will have a 10% tariff surcharge added, along with a slight increase in postage (as the Royal Mail charge an extra 50 pence for paying the tariff on your behalf)

At least I can send items to the United States again, even if it means the overall price you pay has increased.

It seems that some of the multitude of changes in policy within the USA have meant that the British postal service will no longer accept packages destined for that part of the world.

So, until this situation has been resolved, I can no longer send anything from the shop to the United States of America!

I have a few customers who buy several sets of PCBs to allow them to sell kits or fully assembled versions of my projects.

It only seems fair that I reward them for their continued support, so in future buying 10 sets of PCBs will enable a 10% discount. If you really want to go big, then buying 20 sets will double the discount to 20%.

Additionally, if you are in the UK spending £100 or more will enable free postage.