As boards from first run were sold, and there is still quite high intrest in this project, i would like to make another run
minimum is 30 boards, so i need to have at least so many takers for this to happend, also, i wouldn't want to make more than 100 - i would rather make another run if that would needed, than get overwhelmed by the amount of shipments i need to make - this is most time consuming part of the process

due to part prices changing, and scale factor, this time board will cost 260pln (currently 80USD according to google) + shipment (20pln or $6 for most parts of the world)

anyways, just to sum it up, board features:

• 4 slots for OS separate for Colleen and XL/XE mode
  
• 64k of FLASH for future GUI
  
• 2 slots for BASIC/CARTRIDGE
  
• build in, configurable PBI CF card storage (works as PBI in XL/XE mode, and through SDX driver in Colleen mode)
  
• build in FAT32 loader (SIDE)
  
• SDX
  
• onboard RTC
  
• 1MB Axlon compatible memory expansion for Colleen mode
  
• 64k/320k/576/1088k total memory available in XL/XE mode
  
• up to 52k of memory in Colleen mode (configurable)

I'm going to keep preorder phase open for a month, then i'll start sending PM to each of you, and collecting money for production. if all goes well, and i won't have +12 weeks delivery times on some components (this is sometimes relaity when it comes to buying larger quantities) you should have boards at your doormates within 3 months.
As usually, i'll update project status here gradually, so noone will be left wondering whether the money one spent are gone

Sebastian

ps. you can find more about it here

If you ever discussed about it, here is something you need to see (from jvas Atari 800):


collaborating with enemy? (from Mimo's Atari 400)


early chips (before mask was approoved) in production units (another one from jvas Atari 800)?


Sebastian

anyone has any information regarding it?
i would really apreciate some input and in-depth knowledge about that software

Sebastian

Hi all

Since few person asked me if i would do incognito board for atari 400 i wonder if there would be any intrest in this
basically it would be the same incognito board in form factor that would fit 400 motherboard with all the bells and whistlers that incognito gives to the 800
main issue here is that i don't have 400 to start with, so mechanical issues that needs to be resolved on early starge are unknown for me
i would like to do it as incognito was done - a (small) group of betatesters that will receive production unit once projects enters that stage and will test the board throughly

just a thought...

Sebastian

Hi,
This is my little contribution to Your world,
It took me 4 days to get it there, and its still not perfect - as you can see, there are sone glitches (complete lack of sync) during the game boot i haven't investigated yet, but it all come in its own sweet time

I would like to thanks following members for their contribution to this project:
Shawn Jefferson, who talked me into this and gave Lynx I and few games (on their way from Canada)
uicr0Bee for lending me his Lynx II and Batman game so i could work while waiting on Shawn's parcell

Tools used:
Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope for initial gueswork on LCD interface (there is no documentation for it, apart from schematics, so i had to do it the hard way)
Altera/TerasIC DE1 board with custom 3.3V<>5V level shifter board i've also used during SoundBoard development

enough said, enjoy!