Initial attempt will be a breadboard. Just found out that at school we can build our own circuit boards so may also go that route.Derek_Stewart wrote:Hi,
How are you going to connect the DIP64 to the QL DIP48 CPU socket?
I don't own a Gold Card. Tedroid's board is seems to be a socketed chip so I would imagine the socket would have to be de-soldered and a direct connection (pin-for-pin) on a board like the the DIP2PLCC one I got for my Amiga 600 (sans a socket).Derek_Stewart wrote: The CPU in the Gold Card is a PLCC Gull Wing Chip soldered to the PCB, a PLCC socket would be hard fit onto the CPU.
Bridge to be crossed if we ever get there, though Claude (PiStorm creator) has promised he'd help if we ever get to that point.Derek_Stewart wrote: The PIStorm FPGA code would have to rewritten to suit the QL. Looks a hard job.
This is just a summer project to see how far I can get with it. I'm not really the right person to do that but will give it a go...nothing much to lose on a spare board. If anyone wants to help great. If not, that's ok. If it goes nowhere, then nothing lost. But there's been enough interest in the PiStorm Discord server that I figured I'd give it a go and see how far I could get. Maybe I'll learn something as I do this . I do have a new colleague at school who has experience with FPGAs. Not sure how that translates to the PiStrom as its all a bit foreign to me.