Hi there, just wanted you to notify about my upcoming release of PET clone boards: https://github.com/fachat/upet_family The main one is the Ulti-PET, which has: * CS/A bus-based 65816 CPU board * Up to 17.5 MHz 65816 CPU, with 1MB RAM (512k fast, 512k media RAM) * 768x576 VGA with 16 colours out of 64, various modes incl. Colour-PET and C64-alike, incl. sprites * USB host for keyboard and mouse * DAC (DMA) audio output * Port for SD-Card adapter (2 variants) * Port for Network, with either Ethernet or Wifi options * Standard PET I/O, plus ability to work as IEEE488 device * (Fast) Serial IEC, incl. ability to work as IEC device, based on the VIA SR * RS232, plus 2nd TTL serial (shared with UEXT) * Dual SID with mixer (that includes the DAC audio and the beeper); Speaker amp included. * Keyboard shift lock / reset (needs Shift lock key on separate keyboard matrix position) and adds these features on top: * 2 Joystick ports, switchable between single- and dual mode ("stupid pet tricks" compatible) * SPI-10 5V, SPI-10 3.3V, and UEXT extension ports (partially shared, see schematics), incl. I2C * Fully functional Tape incl. 9V for Tape drive power supply * Expansion ports for the CS/A bus - single wide port, single shortbus port for Ultrabus expansion board * Accompanying bus extender board to use CS/A, RC2014, Apple-II, or C64 cards Not all features are supported out of the box (yet) by the included firmware, but some specifically are: * Extended vs. Unmodified ROMs (BASIC4); BASIC1 optionally with fixed IEEE488 * Use of C64 keyboard instead of the default PET-N type keyboard * Colour screen (Colour-PET mode, courtesy Steve Gray's editor ROM project) * New machine language monitor (currently based on _at_MON, but will most likely be replaced by Supermon816) * SD-Card support (Courtesy Michael Steil). If SD-Card is detected, drive 8 is coming from the SD Card * USB keyboard and mouse support * Extended, more C64-compatible kernel jump table Note: the Ulti-PET 1.1A board rev is currently under evaluation, but has passed main tests already. See the issues list on the cbm_ultipet repo if you want to build it. A YouTube video will follow once all tests have passed. Hope you like it, let me know what you think! André https://youtube.com/_at_8bittimesReceived on 2024-07-12 10:00:01
Archive generated by hypermail 2.4.0.