Gigatron Hackers

Hello community, It is with sadness that I inform you that my friend Marcel has passed away earlier this week. You might have read his posting " On ROM v5a " in which he already mentioned that he had immunotherapy that did not work. There was no other treatment left. Marcel (and me for tha...

I hope that will inspire others to also make some games!

iNimbleSloth wrote: ↑13 Apr 2020, 14:04 Thanks for the post

And thanks for your update at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGUZZkYqtsc.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Legacy_port_status_and_USB : Conversion between PS/2 and USB Many keyboards and mice were specifically designed to support both the USB and the PS/2 interfaces and protocols, selecting the appropriate connection type at power-on. Such devices are generall...

Congrats!

You can search for 'TL866II' on AliExpress to find a cheap programmer.

You will also need a UV eraser or blank EPROMs of course.

I also did another check and also resoldered using a higher wattage soldering iron. Problem seems to have vanished now.

It was FAT32 formmatted with a GT1 file in the root. After a bit of searching around, it now suddenly works. There's nothing I deliberately changed.. so it's a guess why it now works. Maybe it was just a bad connection with the SD card? So the SanDisk Utra 16GB from AliExpress is working. EDIT: it a...

Got mine in the mail today.
Soldering was straightforward. Programmed it and it worked!
I tried 2 SD cards, a Sandisk and Philips one, but the console did not show any files on there.

Funny. Reminds me of the 'gamer ddr rams'.

It's tight! But looks tidy.