SD2IEC + EPYX Fast Load - The Build
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2024
- SD2IEC+Epyx Fast Load cartridge build process and review
Part II (functions and operation) can be found here: • SD2IEC + EPYX Fast Loa...
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0:00 Intro
1:11 Parts required
3:11 Soldering components
9:11 Cleanup and crosscheck
10:53 SD card module install
14:16 The DIN cable
21:47 Board features
23:28 Programming the ICs
29:30 No shorts and curved butts
32:18 Testing
34:45 PCB Design opinion
36:32 Leave a comment, hit subscribe, slap like now, blah blah blah
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Another GREAT video!! The 2nd one came up to watch first, so I watched them out of order. Thank you.
Clever use of the electric toothbrush. I take it that one won't be used for oral cleaning any more. 😁
A great project. Always wanted to make one of these - might order some PCBs. I agree - I would like to see a more refined DIN connector solution on the board; future rev perhaps. Great stuff!
Cheers Mark. Yeah there are a couple of changes I'd like to see that I go over in part 2. Also a little rant about open source licenses as the developer of this project is currently not sharing the design files...
Excellent instructional video.
Noticed a few great tips in this one:
1. Green LED = Read, Red LED = Write.
2. Use an alligator clip on the opposite end of the Din pin being soldered, so as to carry the heat away and prevent it from melting the surrounding plastic.
3. Program a PROM twice to help it to "stick".
Programming twice probably makes no difference, like pushing the close door button in a lift multiple times. It feels like it should
Nice!
I remember ads for those after-market cases for "modernizing" breadbin C64s. I wonder how many they sold?
Worth swapping out that 7 pin connector with a right angle one so it takes pressure off the cable?
Funny you should mention it, I already addressed that in part 2
Good video thank you! If I understand PCBway is only for buying the board..? So where do you buy components stuff? »
You need to source the components yourself from places like Mouser or Digikey etc
Cool, I have one but one thing I never can get to load is games that came on 2 Floppies. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. It works fine on my KungFu flash though.
Yeah, I've found multi disk games to be a bit hit or miss with the SD2IEC. Don't know if it's just down to the device itself or maybe I'm not doing it right either. I find myself just blindly hitting the next disk button until something happens
I received my cartridge from a seller in Australia yesterday and tested this feature today. If you have a folder with several D64 files, create a text file called AUTOSWAP.LST within that folder. This text text file should then contain a line with the name of each D64 file that you want to be selected using the Next or Previous buttons on the cartridge. The cool thing is that you don't even need to create this file on a PC. The following sample code can be used to create this file on a C64 (you'll need to change the actual filenames for the disks for your own use, of course)...
10 OPEN 8,8,8, "AUTOSWAP.LST,P,W"
20 PRINT#8,"DISK1.D64"
30 PRINT#8,"DISK2.D64"
40 CLOSE8
The LCD monitor looks quite nice. Where can those be purchased? Thanks for the video.
It's built from a number of parts. I plan on doing a video on it at some stage as it's a little complicated to explain in text
@@TheRetroChannel Thanks! Look forward to it.
I am trying to put together a parts list for this project. So far, I have found sources for what I need with the exception of two things. Can you please provide me a vendor description for the connector on the cable end that connects to the board (the PCBWAY project page doesn't list this item in the BOM, as far as I can tell), and the same for the cable type (it looks like it's 6 conductor shielded, and the description on the PCBWAY project page mentions 30cm MALE-FEMALE DUPONT CABLE???)? I'm a hobbyist rookie still learning the nomenclature for electrical components. Thank you!
Any 6 conductor cable should be fine as it is only running a short distance. The female dupont header should be called just that. Alternatively you could skip the dupont headers (and having to crimp the header pins to the cable) and just solder the 6 wires directly to the connections on the SD2IEC board. Then you would only need to worry about the DIN connector on the C64 side. I guess you could just find a 1541 serial cable and cut it in half
Thank you! I found a Dupont Connector kit on Amazon. And I think I will buy a low cost Commodore serial cable and cut it in two.@@TheRetroChannel
This is the guy who deletes comments if they inform people that edge connectors can damage your cart port connector if they are not gold plated! LOL!
Hey Francois, I saw your first comment pop up, but it was automatically removed by youtube - not me! It only shows me the first part of the now deleted comment but I'm guessing it contained a link which youtube in most cases will automatically delete! LOL!
As for gold edge connectors, I do not agree that they will cause damage, merely they will wear out faster with repeated insertion and removal. If it were an edge connector on the mainboard itself, then yes gold plating would be preferred as it needs to accept wear and tear from a number of different devices. But for a single cartridge no way. If you want to add 900% to the cost of this cheap device then go right ahead
@@TheRetroChannel Having gold plated connectors added 19$ to the price of my boards when I make them at JLCPCB. It's the same amount whether you order 5 boards or 100 and this is regardless of their size.
@@TheRetroChannel I left 2 replies including apologies and that was already deleted!!
@@francoisleveille409 Sorry, again youtube is getting ridiculous with their filtering and I have it set to not filter any comments..
@Francois Leveille Yeah I would much prefer to be able to have JLC make these ones but the developer of this has chosen to not make the design files available so it's stuck on PCBWay.
But again with JLC that still adds 900% to the base cost of $2. Also I think you'll find that the cost will increase (just not as dramatically) when ordering 5 vs 100