Igor Posted May 29, 2019 Author Share Posted May 29, 2019 Cool, it's amazing how quickly some people received theirs, then there are some that have been stuck in customs for 10+ days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 So I've had a bit of time to put this together... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 Awesome! I'm thinking that I should make the turbo mode as default... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 I received mine (half share with Ironworks ) today. Now we will linux up and install the programming toolchain, courtesy of Necrocia and Karri. Many thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 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 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) 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 The point is: try to use Kivy for the GUI. It fits even extremely small screens very well. Edited June 3, 2019 by karri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 3, 2019 Author Share Posted June 3, 2019 I know, Vince wanted to test his brand new Pi Hat programmer on my Shaked, not stirren card during past AC 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 11, 2019 Author Share Posted June 11, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo_rg Posted June 11, 2019 Share Posted June 11, 2019 Please put my name down for 1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 I've updated the OP with these photos. Here they are for again for completeness. You can get the Raspberry Pi 2 case from Thingiverse if you like - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3686153, I can also print it for you with your order. Will upload the cart STL some time soon too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 12, 2019 Author Share Posted June 12, 2019 I've split up the info page into two and have a separate page for the software now, you can find it here - https://atarigamer.com/pages/atari-lynx-cartridge-reader-writer-board-software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited June 13, 2019 by karri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 @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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haightc Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 put me down for one pi hat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 It should be this (the colon : in your command should be there after my username)... Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Positron5 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ok cool, I agree "always be safe than sorry" when handling storage media.?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 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 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nop90 Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Finally had time to setup everything (soldered the gpio connector to my rpi0, connected the programmer, installed the sw) and everything works fine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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