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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.

I used one of the Astrocade PCBs recently to make an adapter to allow me to put a MiSTer setup into my Crazy Climber cabinet.

I populated the video, a single sound channel and the regulator, added an amplifier and then wired an edge connector and video pins to plug into the cabinet.

End result – I can now use the MiSTer to let me to select between Crazy Climber and Crazy Climber 2. Plus I can always add other games if any actually use a horizontal monitor and two joysticks!

A user who had put a galaxian board running the multigame into his pacman cab noticed that Super Invader Attack did not fire properly, working about once in twenty button presses.

He had used the Start button as the fire button (as well as Start), which works in most of the games, but in the case of Invaders it registers the fact that Start has been pressed and then skips looking for any other buttons.

A quick fix so Invaders will no longer check for Start buttons whilst the player is in the middle of a game and it now works as expected.

In addition, the Return to Menu was not working in the middle of a game using the dedicated menu button. Now this was intentional if you were configured to require coins to play, but it now works immediately if you are on freeplay.

Get the updated binary from the normal page here