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Flashed my first PCB this morning.

A bit less than 5 minutes in normal mode, a few seconds more than 2 minutes in turbo mode. On a Raspberry PI 3b.

Thanks you very much Karri and Necrocia for all the work you made on this, it will be great in show to demonstrate my games on many Lynx or even give/sell to people.

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Flashed my first PCB this morning.

A bit less than 5 minutes in normal mode, a few seconds more than 2 minutes in turbo mode. On a Raspberry PI 3b.

Thanks you very much Karri and Necrocia for all the work you made on this, it will be great in show to demonstrate my games on many Lynx or even give/sell to people.

 

Congrats! I am also happy that my "blankcarts" project is finally getting off the ground allowing all kind of small-run game releases. As the cart is re-programmable you can always ditch the bad games and replace them with a new masterpiece.

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Congrats! I am also happy that my "blankcarts" project is finally getting off the ground allowing all kind of small-run game releases. As the cart is re-programmable you can always ditch the bad games and replace them with a new masterpiece.

I know, Vince wanted to test his brand new Pi Hat programmer on my Shaked, not stirren card during past AC :mad:

 

 

This afternoon, I played a bit with Python and QT for the first time, and I made a small GUI for writecart (not sure QT was really needed in fact).

It only displays ethe list of LNX fles in current repertory with a BIG "Flash ROM" button. I think I will buy an official Touchscreen in order to set-up a "flash on demand" kiosk for my freeware games during next AC, RGC, and maybe eJagfest.

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I have written a lot of Kivy-Python apps. They run from command line without an OS. Right now I am porting everything to Python3.

 

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=121392

 

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The point is: try to use Kivy for the GUI. It fits even extremely small screens very well.

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I know, Vince wanted to test his brand new Pi Hat programmer on my Shaked, not stirren card during past AC :mad:

 

 

This afternoon, I played a bit with Python and QT for the first time, and I made a small GUI for writecart (not sure QT was really needed in fact).

It only displays ethe list of LNX fles in current repertory with a BIG "Flash ROM" button. I think I will buy an official Touchscreen in order to set-up a "flash on demand" kiosk for my freeware games during next AC, RGC, and maybe eJagfest.

 

 

Feel free to add the GUI to the code base. If you don't have access, I'm sure Karri will add you as a developer on the git repository.

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I've finished making the last batch for the pre-orders today. Going to take a bit of a break from these while more components arrive. Then I plan to make 10 more, 6 of which have names against them already. If anyone else wants one of these, let me know and I'll add them to the list.

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Hi, I'm having problems installing the readcart, write and romutils tools.

I'm using the retroPie build and I get Unable to resolve host when I run the "git clone -b programmers-enhancements https//:ikronin@bitbucket.org command"

Also I thought I'd try to build the programmers tools from source but it looks like the makefile in lynx/contrib/blankcart/programmers/ folder is the makefile for wiringPi

utilities.

Any ideas?

thanx

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If you are really trying https//:ikronin@bitbucket.org then it is obvious why it fails. It should be https://ikromin@bitbucket.org

 

The wiringpi makefile is just my laziness from the original cart utilities

 

You can compile something by typing:

 

make readcart

or

make progverify

 

But I believe Igor has created something better.

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@Karri

Thanks for the quick response. The typing slip was caused by using my windows laptop for posting and switching to RasPi/,. terminal

for linux commands. I'm still working on the git problem, though.

Make readcart worked (it powered up gcc) .

Positron5

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Are you following instructions from https://atarigamer.com/pages/atari-lynx-cartridge-reader-writer-board-software ?

 

It should be this (the colon : in your command should be there after my username)...

 

 

git clone -b programmer-enhancements https://bitbucket.org/atarilynx/lynx.git

cd lynx/contrib/blankcart/programmer
make all

 

If you don't see testboard.sh after checking out the files from Git, then you're on the wrong branch. Do "git clone -b programmer-enhancements" in the "lynx" directory and then "cd contrib/blankcart/programmer && make all".

Tell me how you go with that.

 

The hostname issue is to do with networking configuration, but I suspect it's the colon causing the problem.

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It should be this (the colon : in your command should be there after my username)...

 

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git clone -b programmer-enhancements https://bitbucket.or...rilynx/lynx.git

cd lynx/contrib/blankcart/programmer
make all

 

If you don't see testboard.sh after checking out the files from Git, then you're on the wrong branch. Do "git clone -b programmer-enhancements" in the "lynx" directory and then "cd contrib/blankcart/programmer && make all".

Tell me how you go with that.

The hostname issue is to do with networking configuration, but I suspect it's the colon causing the problem.

 

Hi, yes I was following the instructions from https://atarigamer.com/pages/atari-lynx-cartridge-reader-writer-board-software

I hope to have another look at it over the weekend. I'll let you know how I get on.

 

Cheers

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Ok cool. I've updated the instructions a little after posting that. Also tested out on my laptop, works here. I can't test on my Pi though because it's not with me (I'm interstate for work at the moment).

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Sorry for the hold up, Signing in has been changed - now you have to use your Display name,

different to how I did it before.

I've now managed to build your programmers tools and I flashed a rom.?

Could you advise me if and how you re-flash a card that's been flashed as I have two test cards I'd like to recover.

Thanx

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Flashing a card will automatically erase what has been written before. Please be careful as there are many people using the same chips. You may accidentally overwrite some rare games if they use the same chips as in my design.

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Fantastic! My test cart is the same, I keep flashing the same thign over and over on different boards as I build them. In fact I don't even flash a real ROM to it, it's just a 512k file full of random bytes ?

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