Re: ARGUS Project thread - now sold out (gerbers will be released soon)

Posted on Yesterday, 14:43

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by elfoam

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The postage cost seems wrong? It costs more to send 3 to the UK than the whole lot. Thanks for coming back to this thread :) I'm still attempting to make my own one but it's slow going between other projects. I've still been playing with the clone I was working on once in a while, well once each …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)

Posted on 2022-04-25, 19:06

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by elfoam

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Do you want me to delete the post? I will anyway if there's concern and worry about these kind of things, this isn't the kind of thing I worry about in my life but I understand not everyone has my life policy :p I've been burning eproms flat out for 20 years. I'm addicted to the smell of ozone ;p

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Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)

Posted on 2022-04-25, 17:37

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by elfoam

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I would also strongly urge all involved to end the open discussions of dumping and sharing the ROM content. This is not the place for that, and greatly increases the likelihood of this thread being locked or deleted. One of the rights-holders is aware of this project, and has been known to stop in …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-06, 16:31

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by elfoam

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I can answer any questions you guys have about soldering surface mount, {...} Good solder and good flux is the most important thing. Solder: I use Stannol Kristall 600 Fairtin lead-free (Sn96,5Ag3Cu0,5) Flux: any recommendations? I use leaded solder since it's much easier to use but if you have …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-06, 13:38

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by elfoam

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I can answer any questions you guys have about soldering surface mount, I'm not the worlds greatest surface mount builder but I'm a few levels above the skill needed to assemble these cards so ask away. Good solder and good flux is the most important thing. Technique you can learn but you can't …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-05, 15:37

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by elfoam

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Good news everyone, a deal for the american continents is likely to happen rather soon. If anyone wants to take part in production and distribution for europe and/or asia and/or australia hit me up. Excellent news man. I'll be up for some of your boards to build a couple of cards with the parts I …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-05, 15:01

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by elfoam

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This version of GuSar has some SIMM address lines swapped. Only 16mb modules work correctly. Also 0.1uf ceramic cap is recommend by datasheet in parallel to c722, if I recall correctly. Ok thanks, I will look into that. Anyone will be able to modify and check it after I finish drawing it. I will be …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-02, 20:32

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by elfoam

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Well I made a start tonight, for sure the most complex thing I've tried to clone. But I've put down a decent percentage of the top layer in a few hours. It'll need some fine tuning and hunting for errors once I've put down all the parts and tracks. Being a black PCB it's hard to see everything …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-01, 19:13

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eo. Hats off to you and all the best! Afterall this is basically how the project started (just from a PCB instead of whatever base you used). I'm just copying the Russian card which is a copy of your card which is a copy of the original.. I've scanned it today. I'm going to go ahead with it and see …

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-30, 04:21

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by elfoam

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I drew almost the entire PCB some months ago but it wasn't as good as I wanted. In the meantime I got better at it and made some more simple PCBs of other projects that work. These days I'm at a stage where I can do this if needed. It would take me a couple of days so I'll just do it as a last …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-12-29, 06:46

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by elfoam

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I doubt those AM78C201KC chips are going to be around much longer, after that it's going to have to be a FPGA recreation.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-12-28, 05:17

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by elfoam

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Sev80 wrote on 2021-12-27, 23:04: has shock walked away from this project? Probably got severe project burnout. I've had it before, you usually don't recover or have anything to do with something again once that happens. But it's ok, understandable

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-12-27, 13:21

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by elfoam

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I'm still here. I have parts for 3 boards so I will have to make PCBs for myself if no one else will make them available. I'm teaching myself Sprint Layout for that eventuality. If I do end up doing this they will go directly to github of course. But I'm still some way off that happening. Hope you …

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Re: Keyboard not working

Posted on 2021-10-12, 22:01

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by elfoam

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You guys are complete legends ! The capacitor array on my Gigabyte GA-6OXM7E is a different value but in the same location right behind the PS2 port. I had already replaced the Super IO controller but in the end removing the capacitor array fixed it. Decide to add this post for whoever searches this …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-07-24, 20:32

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by elfoam

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Don't matter the images, they are good enough. But what about the Bill of Materials? Do you have that too? The BOM is already mentioned in this thread plenty of times, here's the link http://bit.ly/2Ddf89V. I can help you with close ups of some numbers on the board if you can't make them out. …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-07-24, 16:16

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by elfoam

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kdehl wrote on 2021-07-24, 10:33: Don't matter the images, they are good enough. But what about the Bill of Materials? Do you have that too? The BOM is already mentioned in this thread plenty of times, here's the link http://bit.ly/2Ddf89V. I can help you with close ups of some numbers on the board …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-07-09, 01:11

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by elfoam

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Didn't some russian guy already made GUSAR that was basically an IW card initially cloning Argus and then moved to their own design? Isn’t it Still the same design ? He has the GUSAR light which seems to be much the same as a Philips card I've seen. But yeah we are several clones deep by now. The …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-07-08, 23:03

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by elfoam

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kdehl wrote on 2021-07-08, 20:55: Hi and thanks! This might actually be something that I could work with. No problem, I hope they are good enough, let me know if not. The board (and photo) is 163.9mm x 100. If you get your design done and on github let me know also, it would be great to see it out …

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Re: Looking for the best Sound Blaster Live! model for DOS that I own

Posted on 2021-07-05, 11:04

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by elfoam

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For a pure DOS machine just use any old crappy ISA Sound Blaster, they are still common and cheap. Every second beige machine in the e-waste has one in it. Use your PCI card in a later OS

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 14:38

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by elfoam

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If the goal is preservation, it would maybe be better to preserve the original GUS (GF1 chip) because that one is more essential to run demo’s. And maybe reimplementation would also be a good idea because Interwave chips will not be around forever. Yes I think the ultimate goal would be a fpga …

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