Do you recall who that was?I am vaguely aware someone is working on a project to convert sprint layout files into KiCad layouts
Yes, Once the board has been finalized (and hopefully a few sold to recoup my costs) the layout files will be publishedDo you plan on publishing the files someday? Along with some netlist RE it would be useful in OpenBoardView for troubleshooting existing boards…
I don't i'm afraid, it was a very breif discuassion I saw on the RetroTinkering discord server some months agoDo you recall who that was?
I fount this attempt at REing their format but it's not finished. I was looking into adding import for OpenBoardView…
Looks like you'll have to file the 96-pin one and cut into a 21-pin to get the 18-pin extension… Maybe a hot-wire would work for that.
I'll always be a combination or purely salvaged as these boards contain a number of custom IC's (The memory controller, clock chip, CULTDAC, DFAC and EGRET) so you'll always need a donor board for these. Initially when building these I was always replacing the passives with new but in the end I actually found it is much quicker and easier to just move all the passives over form the donor boardsI’m late to the party and you may have covered this already. But where do you get the components to populate these new mother boards? New? Nos? Salvaged parts? A combination?