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  • stj
    Great Sage 齊天大聖
    • Dec 2009
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    • Albion

    #21
    Re: Need help reading a schematic.

    Originally posted by Spork Schivago
    Wow, if you've seen that stuff before, you must be really old!
    i never grow old, my anger keeps me young and ready!

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    • Spork Schivago
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      • Mar 2012
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      #22
      Re: Need help reading a schematic.

      Originally posted by rhomanski
      Seen it? I've got the tools and wire to do it. A lot of old Pioneers from the seventies have wiring done that way. I try to keep them like original. I'm afraid sixty is getting real close in my windshield.
      I absolutely love older PCs and electronics. I think they're a thing of beauty, in all honesty. Got a TRS-80 and a few Commadore 64's. I'd love to get a 128 one of these days but they're getting harder to find. I need a new bezel for my TRS-80 but RadioShack, last time I called, said they no longer carried the parts. I've scoured the internet but couldn't find one. :'(

      I remember when I was a child, I used to tear stuff apart, trying to figure out what made it tick. I remember tearing something about and there was this numerical display. Kind of like the 7 segment LED displays but this thing had miniature glass tube like things that would light up. They where stacked on top of each other. One was a 1, then a 2 on top of that, a 3, etc. I thought that was freaking amazing.
      -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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      • Spork Schivago
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        #23
        Re: Need help reading a schematic.

        Originally posted by budm
        So you already bought the kit? It comes with step down power transformer?
        I did buy the kit but I'm still waiting on a few things (the UV LED PCB and the UV LEDs for it). I got the timer kit already finished. The guy was selling multiple kits. For example, the timer was one kit. Then there was the UV LED PCB kit. Finally, there was a power supply. I have the timer already finished and I have the PSU. Here's a link to the PSU. http://www.e-stynus.com/index.php?ma...products_id=60

        I think originally he designed the PSU himself but later decided to just use a pre-manufactured one. It's a 15V, 36 Watt DC power supply, model number: MW-RS-35-15.
        -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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        • Spork Schivago
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          #24
          Re: Need help reading a schematic.

          Originally posted by stj
          i never grow old, my anger keeps me young and ready!
          LOL! I usually feel like I'm 90! I can't imagine how I'm going to feel in 10 years from now! Maybe I should work on becoming angry to help me stay young and fit.
          -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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          • stj
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            #25
            Re: Need help reading a schematic.

            i am going to recap a vectrex soon - just wanted to share

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            • stj
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              #26
              Re: Need help reading a schematic.

              Originally posted by Spork Schivago
              LOL! I usually feel like I'm 90! I can't imagine how I'm going to feel in 10 years from now! Maybe I should work on becoming angry to help me stay young and fit.
              just put the tv news on for 10min's that will get you angry for a week!
              dont overdose!!!

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              • Spork Schivago
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                #27
                Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                Originally posted by stj
                i am going to recap a vectrex soon - just wanted to share
                Do you get to keep it or is it someone elses? That's nice man. I have a friend who's father has an Osborne (1 I think). I'd love to find one of those Executive's but I don't even know if any exist. Very few where actually sold because Osborne ended up filing bankruptcy. Some people contribute the fall of his company to the Executive. He was showing it off to Journalists before it was ready and people that had pre-ordered the Osborne canceled their order. They decided to just wait until the Executive was released. Sales dropped a lot. It was something like in one month, the Osborne 1 went from 1,200$ to 900$ (and change). I've been trying to get the Osborne off my friend for a few years now. Still no luck though.
                -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                • Spork Schivago
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                  #28
                  Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                  Originally posted by stj
                  just put the tv news on for 10min's that will get you angry for a week!
                  dont overdose!!!
                  LOL! Yeah, we actually try not to watch the news. It just seems in this country at least, violence sells. We never see anything happy on the news. Always the worst of the worst or mud slinging when election time comes around.
                  -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                  • stj
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                    • Dec 2009
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                    #29
                    Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                    Originally posted by Spork Schivago
                    Do you get to keep it or is it someone elses?
                    someone elses.
                    i do have one in storage,
                    may have to dig it out because i just found this:
                    http://spritesmods.com/?art=veccart&page=1

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                    • Spork Schivago
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                      • Mar 2012
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                      #30
                      Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                      Originally posted by stj
                      someone elses.
                      i do have one in storage,
                      may have to dig it out because i just found this:
                      http://spritesmods.com/?art=veccart&page=1
                      Hey STJ, do you think you could design something like that for the NES and the SNES or no? You seem to be a lot more knowledgeable than I am at this stuff. The original NES is my all time favourite console. The Sega Master System is pretty darn good too though. SNES had nice graphics. I can't play the newer game consoles, they give me seizures for some reason. Even watching for a few minutes, I get really sick. But I can still play the old ones!

                      Also, with the design that the guy created on the site you linked too...I see he decided to go with assembly for the firmware because he said it gave him finer control of the functions he was executing. I'm fairly good with C. Not so much with assembly but I'm sure it wouldn't take too long to improve my Assembly knowledge. The assembly he's using is for the microcontroller, not the Vectrex, right? I had trouble learning assembly for the 8502 that the NES uses.
                      -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                      • keeney123
                        Lauren
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 2536
                        • United States

                        #31
                        Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                        Originally posted by Spork Schivago
                        Are you talking about stuff like this?

                        https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ormat_1977.jpg

                        That's freaking old school! Wow. Do people still do that stuff? I got an old tube amp I'm supposed to fix for my buddy that's wired that way.
                        Yes, it is a good way to proto-type a board as it is easy to unscrew the wire wraps to change the circuit connection. Only problem is that it is only good for about 2 years as the connection start to oxidize. With a wire wrap gun many connections can be made quickly. With soldering every time one un-solders and re-solders a joint it weakens that joint. Wire wrapping the wire actually cuts into the post.

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                        • Spork Schivago
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                          #32
                          Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                          Originally posted by keeney123
                          Yes, it is a good way to proto-type a board as it is easy to unscrew the wire wraps to change the circuit connection. Only problem is that it is only good for about 2 years as the connection start to oxidize. With a wire wrap gun many connections can be made quickly. With soldering every time one un-solders and re-solders a joint it weakens that joint. Wire wrapping the wire actually cuts into the post.
                          Wow, so people still wire wrap? That's cool to know. I got a bunch of bread boards left from when I took Digital Logic back in college. I still use them for projects when I'm trying to learn how to make circuit boards. What's nice about the bread board is I can easily modify a circuit. You know, make changes and then see how the changes affect the circuit. I bet I could do that with wire wraps as well. I was thinking about it last night, and perhaps wire wrapping might make it a little easier for me to follow how the electricity moves through the circuit. I still struggle with that a bit when it comes to parallel circuits.
                          -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                          • stj
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                            #33
                            Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                            Originally posted by Spork Schivago
                            Hey STJ, do you think you could design something like that for the NES and the SNES or no?
                            the way he did it is interesting.
                            it could theoretically be ported to any 8bit system with games that arent banked.
                            you would need to re-write the selector-menu for the host system.

                            i think master system may be a problem, i think the roms are banked - i know nothing about snes - isnt it a 16bit version of a 6502?

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                            • Spork Schivago
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                              #34
                              Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                              Originally posted by stj
                              the way he did it is interesting.
                              it could theoretically be ported to any 8bit system with games that arent banked.
                              you would need to re-write the selector-menu for the host system.

                              i think master system may be a problem, i think the roms are banked - i know nothing about snes - isnt it a 16bit version of a 6502?
                              I believe the SNES uses a 5A22 CPU based off of the 65c816 core which is an enhanced version of the WDC 65C02 8-bit MPU. The WDC 65C02 8-bit MPU is actually a CMOS enhancement of the 6502 NMOS MPU. So yeah, it is. THe selector-menu might not be that hard. I used to be a system programmer before my brain broke. Anyway, I just need a refresher for C. Learning new languages usually isn't that difficult. The only reason I struggled I think with the NES assembly for the 6502 was because I couldn't find any books on it. The NES used a modified instruction set I believe but it was really hard finding good documentation on how to write an NES game. I found plenty of examples, but I couldn't really find any that actually explained what the code did. Mostly, okay, make sure your code contains this at the beginning: <blah>.

                              I still don't have a Master System so I'm not too interested in that right now. The NES would be the main one. Maybe you'd like to try and tackle it with me sometime? You work on modifying the hardware, I'd work on writing the code. I'd pay for the supplies if it didn't turn out to be too expensive. Maybe we could sell them and split the profits or something or just release it open hardware for others to use?

                              One last thing. What do you mean by banked games? Do you mean pages that can be remapped to different internal ROM banks?
                              -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                              • Spork Schivago
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                                #35
                                Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                Here's a little info on one of the NES mappers and how it works in regard to banking. Would that make the NES ROMs banking ROMs?

                                http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/MMC1#Banks
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                                • stj
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                                  #36
                                  Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                  yes, it would.

                                  btw, i can write 6502 assembly.

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                                  • keeney123
                                    Lauren
                                    • Sep 2014
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                                    #37
                                    Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                    Originally posted by stj
                                    yes, it would.

                                    btw, i can write 6502 assembly.
                                    is that a Rockwell processor?

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                                    • stj
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                                      #38
                                      Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                      originally.

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                                      • Spork Schivago
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                                        #39
                                        Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                        Originally posted by stj
                                        yes, it would.

                                        btw, i can write 6502 assembly.
                                        Yeah, turns out other people have already made some multi-carts for the NES. It looks like it'd be a huge project, software wise at least. I'd need to write the mappers and I don't really want to do that.

                                        On a side note, when you say you can writ 6502 assembly, can you write code that the NES understands or code that an NES emulator understands? The code is a little bit different from the code for a pure 6502 (not Nintendo's modified 6502). I write some code once for an NES emulator. All it did was display a dot on the screen and if you pressed the over button, it'd move over. If you pressed up or down, it'd move up or down. My friend was supposed to work on the graphics but he never did. I struggled a lot with the graphics part of it. I didn't research it much because he was supposed to but the sprite editing program I found was a bit confusing. If you can write code for the NES, what do you use for drawing the sprites?
                                        -- Law of Expanding Memory: Applications Will Also Expand Until RAM Is Full

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                                        • Spork Schivago
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                                          #40
                                          Re: Need help reading a schematic.

                                          Originally posted by keeney123
                                          is that a Rockwell processor?
                                          Technically, I think the CPU the NES uses is a Ricoh 2A03. I believe it's just a modified version of the MOS 6502.

                                          Originally, MOS developed it then Commadore bought it and sourced it to Rockwell and Synertek. After that though, a few other companies got access to it. I don't know who though. Chuck Peddle's team at MOS developed it.
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