Igor Posted April 16, 2019 Author Share Posted April 16, 2019 So the question is - who would like additional shells and what colours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 17, 2019 Author Share Posted April 17, 2019 So....here's the very first pi-hat assembled and ready to go. Testing all passed. I'm still waiting for M2 screws that hold the cart connector in place (and boxes to send everything in). This weekend I'll start building all the preorders and reaching out to people for payment probably a week after. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenious Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 So the question is - who would like additional shells and what colours? I'll get some, and I'll probably go for every colour you offer... lol There's nothing like variation... But colours I'd like to see is definately "atari blue", "atari grey", "jaguar red", if it is at all possible. It's traditional retrocolours that we all love I think. Apart from the original lynx colour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoran Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Same here - I'd like all available colours for the shells too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefred Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 So the question is - who would like additional shells and what colours? I'll take a few extras. What ever colors you have made up should be fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 So the question is - who would like additional shells and what colours? I would probably take 10, to go with Karri's 10 cart PCB boards. Don't really care about colors, but if you look closely your Lynx, I guess that same grey or same orange would fit well in it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alonsan Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 If possible, I want one. Please include me for a pi hat programmer on your order list too Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 I would like to order 20 grey cart shells if possible. Already have the boards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 If possible, I want one. Please include me for a pi hat programmer on your order list too Thank you. Pre-order pricing is finished for now. I can put you on the list for after all the pre-orders are sent out. The price will be 10EUR more compared to pre-orders. I would like to order 20 grey cart shells if possible. Already have the boards... Cool, I'll order some dark grey filament then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 I've updated the original post with current details and all the pricing. I've decided to make shells a little cheaper too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alonsan Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Pre-order pricing is finished for now. I can put you on the list for after all the pre-orders are sent out. The price will be 10EUR more compared to pre-orders. Cool, I'll order some dark grey filament then. Yes please, put me on the new list. Thank You for all 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 20, 2019 Author Share Posted April 20, 2019 Starting to assemble these boards and testing with 512k ROMs. In case anyone is interested this is what the output of the readcart and programcart looks like when testing a board... # ./testboard.sh WRITING ROM Chip manufacturer ID is bf, flash ID is b7 Flashing Lynx cart from ninjag3.lnx Block size is 2048 Writing block 256 / 256 [ 100.00% ] Elapsed time is 358 seconds Write complete, time taken was 360 seconds Initialising SPI @ 10Mhz Setting up programmer board Turbo mode enabled Cart size 512k with 2048b block size Determining chip ID Chip manufacturer ID is bf, flash ID is b7 Reading Lynx cart data to file cart.lyx NOT Writing LNX header Reading block 256 / 256 [ 100.00% ] Elapsed time is 30 seconds Read complete, time taken was 30 seconds CART MD5 : c9ed2a3bdefd6d5fdf67302d87b5cfb2 CART EXPECTED: c9ed2a3bdefd6d5fdf67302d87b5cfb2 TEST PASS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 The first 5 are built and fully assembled now. Just waiting for boxes to arrive to ship them in. I'll start contacting everyone on the pre-order list to finalise payments as I assemble more boards. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 I've managed to build another 10 but I've had a delay in 3D printing so I'll wait to contact more people until I've been able to catch up on printing all the cartridge shells. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 27, 2019 Author Share Posted April 27, 2019 By request I added a utility to work with LNX and LYX files. It's not full featured yet (there's no way to set header fields yet) but it's 80% there. Here's it's usage info... Usage: romutil -2lyx|-2lnx|-i <romfile> [<romfile2>] -2lyx Convert LNX ROM romfile to LYX ROM romfile2 -2lnx Convert LYX ROM romfile to LNX ROM romfile2 adding default header -cmp Compare two ROMs, input can be LNX or LYX files -h Show this summary and exit -i Show LNX ROM header information All the boards I've put together and tested so far had no problems with writing data to flash using the -turbo switch, however Karri said in the past he's come across some chips that can have failures with normal speed writing (not even turbo) so I'm going to add another option when writing cartridges to double verify each write. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flip Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 So the question is - who would like additional shells and what colours? if you have 10 shells left, any colour, i'd be happy to add them to the pi hat order FliP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 Will do, I should have grey filament arriving on Monday, so I will get them printed to add to all those 'random colour' requests Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefred Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 By request I added a utility to work with LNX and LYX files. It's not full featured yet (there's no way to set header fields yet) but it's 80% there. Here's it's usage info... Usage: romutil -2lyx|-2lnx|-i <romfile> [<romfile2>] -2lyx Convert LNX ROM romfile to LYX ROM romfile2 -2lnx Convert LYX ROM romfile to LNX ROM romfile2 adding default header -cmp Compare two ROMs, input can be LNX or LYX files -h Show this summary and exit -i Show LNX ROM header information All the boards I've put together and tested so far had no problems with writing data to flash using the -turbo switch, however Karri said in the past he's come across some chips that can have failures with normal speed writing (not even turbo) so I'm going to add another option when writing cartridges to double verify each write. Stupid question, but when you use -cmp they both have to be in the same format correct? It wont just ignore the LNX header and just look at the data? The best way for it to properly get the CRC is for the files to be in LYX format without the headers just because the header data isn't static meaning you can change the header info and change the CRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 Nope, not at all, I detect whether it's a LNX or LYX file and compare the ROM contents, ignoring the header. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 I asked LX.net to be my guinea pig for these colours and he approves of them, so now everyone else can get them too The grey is not as dark in real life, it's a few shades lighter than the original grey colour. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nop90 Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 I confirm that I want 10 shells with the programmer, a mix of blue orange and gray is ok. I see that today you shipped the first two orders, What's the estimated time for completing the preorder list? (I'm near the bottom ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 I've got about 14 more built already and I'm printing the shells as fast as I can. I can build another 10 in a weekend, the slow down is mostly the 3d printing. I hope to have it all shipped out by June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 Hello. Quick update. I've got 3 more boards and shells all ready to ship out. 9 more boards are in their boxes, awaiting printing of shells - I'll be sending invoices out for these shortly. Printing of shells isn't the quickest process, I can only really do around 6 a day so please be patient. I'm trying to do the 3 new colours in alteration, one a day - grey, orange, blue. There are around 17 shells already printed and ready to pack too. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 You are doing a lot to encourage new content to the Lynx. This may be an amazing Lynx year. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 Thanks Karri! I hope to see some new 'killer' games like Wyvern Tales this year, On Duty may be that game, hopefully a few more will come out of the woods too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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