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Finally tested 256K
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:14 pm
by sixxie
Looks like a) the 256K DRAMs I ordered off ebay last year are good, and b) SAMx4 256K banker support really does work. Yay!

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Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:16 pm
by robcfg
Nice!
Tell me more about that mini keyboard of yours

Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:07 pm
by sixxie
robcfg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:16 pm
Tell me more about that mini keyboard of yours
I can tell you I didn't make it...
Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:51 pm
by sorchard
Excellent work as usual Ciaran
robcfg wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:16 pm
Tell me more about that mini keyboard of yours
Just a little something for the lulz. Details here:
https://gitlab.com/sorchard001/mini-dragon-keyboard
Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:49 am
by robcfg
It looks really nice, thank you for sharing it!
And sorry for completely derailing the thread

Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:49 am
by lcurtisboyle
Ciaran - do you have a copy of the J&R Banker software that they included with their 256K and 512K banker boards? If not, Ken Waters (Canadian Retro Things) has copies of them. I think it even came with OS9 Level 1 RAM disk drivers for it.
Re: Finally tested 256K
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:58 am
by sixxie
lcurtisboyle wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 3:49 am
Ciaran - do you have a copy of the J&R Banker software that they included with their 256K and 512K banker boards? If not, Ken Waters (Canadian Retro Things) has copies of them. I think it even came with OS9 Level 1 RAM disk drivers for it.
I don't, though I see the disk on colorcomputerarchive. Unfortunately the only machine I'm easily able to modify to test this is my own Dragon 64 board (where the DRAMs are all socketed, and I'd left pin 1 N/C, so was just a case of soldering them all together), so can't test it with the CoCo software.
Still, that'll be useful for testing the inevitable additions to XRoar
