Re: MAX 6566 replacement designed and it works great!

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:03 PM, vossi <vossi@ceffy.de> wrote:

> I think it's not a problem - the vic2 survives without cooling ;)

well, yes, I had very few VIC-II failures and my old C64 was powered
on for years every day
without any cooling on the chips. However, in those days, I could
order a replacement by making a quick phone call and find the new
chips in the mailbox a few days later (and they were cheap chips :)))
Now, if nobody makes replacements with modern parts, when possible, we
may run out of replacements one day (well, maybe not during my life,
but who knows). So why take the risk?


> If someone wants to design a pcb, I can send the eagle schematics-file...

if nobody else does, I can do that. I use kicad however. I think
there're tools to convert eagle file to kicad schematics and
libraries. I bet there're hundreds of people that can do it on eagle
here anyway.

Best regards
Frank

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