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Can't see the site because it's down but it's highly unlikely this remake uses all the same components in all the same packages as the original. The Atari 800XL
by intrepidhero 6y ago
Can't see the site because it's down but it's highly unlikely this remake uses all the same components in all the same packages as the original. The Atari 800XL would used entirely through hole components and its unlikely all the chips are still available in DIP. So there will at least be a little change to accommodate modern packages. ( I suspect)
- rjsw 6y agoProbably needs an FPGA to replace the Atari custom graphics chips too.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoYeah my 800XL's memory chips blew a few years ago and it was really hard to get new ones. Though ebay helped me out. But I think the custom ones will be even harder as they were completely custom design. Like POKEY and ANTIC.
- kalleboo 6y agoI follow the vintage Mac community, and there are people there remaking classic Mac PCBs as drop-in replacements with the same chips since so many boards get eaten up by leaking PRAM batteries or old capacitors corroding the traces on the board. Most of the chips on the corroded board are still good (or at least the ones that are custom or no longer made) so you can desolder them from the dead donor board in the machine you bought and pop them in the new one