The age of Aquarius

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Any sign of the flip-flop chips today?
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stephen_usher wrote: Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:49 pm Any sign of the flip-flop chips today?
Sadly not I'm afraid. The post is really variable round here ATM and we are getting deliveries once or twice a week, and then it's clear the PO has saved up several days worth of post as we get a bumper bundle.

Annoying because I just need that to be able to test the AY-3-8910, which would also help troubleshoot the USB side of things. Looking again at the flip flops, I think it being used as a clock divider for the AY.

Nothing today though, and it's frustrating as I am also waiting on a 74LS51 for my 600XL.

Any luck with your QS8888s? I'm assuming they are still on a slow boat from China!!
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Well, apparently it left China just after 9pm last night, after taking 6 days to pass through the "Orange Connex" courier system and previous to that 5 days to be shipped by the vendor.
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ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
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stephen_usher wrote: Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:47 pm Well, apparently it left China just after 9pm last night, after taking 6 days to pass through the "Orange Connex" courier system and previous to that 5 days to be shipped by the vendor.
Definitely the slow boat!!
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Little widget I thought I'd give a try, see if I can get composite out of my Aquarius.

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Takes RGB in, which is available at the TEA1002 IC and outputs Composite and S-Video.

Should be a fun experiment :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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A mild spot of header soldering and wire chopping to get the RGB to composite board ready to be tested in the Aquarius, see if we can't squeeze a slightly better image out of it.

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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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@exxos we need a fingers crossed emoji! :-)
(And possibly magic smoke one too.)
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stephen_usher wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:59 am @exxos we need a fingers crossed emoji! :-)
(And possibly magic smoke one too.)
You find it, I'll add it..
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stephen_usher wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:59 am @exxos we need a fingers crossed emoji! :-)
(And possibly magic smoke one too.)
HEY!!!!!! No fair!!

I haven't had a magic smoke incident in nearly a year......

We could do with a sign:

Magic Smoke Free for XXX days.....

Surely we have somebody arty on here who could oblige, then pin it to the top of the forum :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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How about this:

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:)
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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