Mystery Devboard?

Could I use this for PPClone prototyping and development?

Hmmmmmm......

Lab Status

Finishing up the drywall in the lab as we speak. Hope to be in sometime this summer.

Crummy health issues and a busted minivan are inhibiting my progress.

Eye candy

Forgot all about these... piles of NOS z8002's still in their tubes.

As far as an update goes:

I've been working on a lot of board repairs (non PP related) to fund the finishing of my basement lab. It gets damp in the summer and pretty cold in the winter and I find it hard to get motivated (especially during Jan/Feb). A few outside chores to wrap up and then I should be able to get started an that.

10xx headway

The 10xx custom is nearly done. The system resets and passes all self tests, but the watchdog goes off right before the track appears. Which tells me it's a bus control scenario between the 10xx and the 08xx. I'm tracing the Z80 bus to see where it gets lost in the weeds and once I figure that out, should be an easy fix. Stay tuned for a complete overview on how I've helped automate the reverse engineering of the customs. It's saved me tons of time.

Holy crap has it been that long??? Been working more on this project these past few weeks but still not as often as I would like. :-(

CPLD success

Apparently it helps when you:

1. Install the ByteBlaster Driver (see the ByteBlaster II PDF)
   
2. Choose ByteBlaster and not ByteBlasterMV (I have to unplug mine for this option to show up)
3. Have continuity between the ByteBlaster and the CPLD.

Anyways... now I can see how close my customs are to the real deal....deals....(deals?).... eh you get the point.

"Can you read me?"

Picked up my programmable device and built my own ByteBlaster but can't seem to program the device. Comparing my byteblaster to the schematic found in the ByteBlaster II datasheet they appear to be different so I may have to modify mine so it looks to be the real thing. Stay tuned....