Pocket64 WIP DONE
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Mr. Hooker
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Re: And so it begins
This is just a concept, and I have no clue if it's even worth the trouble to test out the theory, or if it's something you was already planing, or if it would even work. Just thinking of the extreme shrinking of a N64 mother board.
Since you don't need the expansion slot anymore other then holding a cut down jumper pack, (that only give's the required continuity and basically act's like a "termination circuit")that you might be able to remove the slot and trace out the lines that the jumper pac bridge's, and add the few small surface mount components directly to the slot's pad's? that would intern flatten the whole board to the height of the ic's and capacitor's.
I used to use scsi terminator's on my old file server back in the late 90's. it cost $5-$10 to make or $30-$60 to buy.
Again, it's just a concept, with only the intent to help. Might try it myself in a few mounth's if it hasent been done befor then.
Sorry. Anyway's, back on topic.
That's pretty awesome, I had no clue the N64 onboard ram could be upgraded.
This is just a concept, and I have no clue if it's even worth the trouble to test out the theory, or if it's something you was already planing, or if it would even work. Just thinking of the extreme shrinking of a N64 mother board.
Since you don't need the expansion slot anymore other then holding a cut down jumper pack, (that only give's the required continuity and basically act's like a "termination circuit")that you might be able to remove the slot and trace out the lines that the jumper pac bridge's, and add the few small surface mount components directly to the slot's pad's? that would intern flatten the whole board to the height of the ic's and capacitor's.
I used to use scsi terminator's on my old file server back in the late 90's. it cost $5-$10 to make or $30-$60 to buy.
Again, it's just a concept, with only the intent to help. Might try it myself in a few mounth's if it hasent been done befor then.
Sorry. Anyway's, back on topic.
That's pretty awesome, I had no clue the N64 onboard ram could be upgraded.
Mr. Hooker
Active Member
Re: And so it begins
ohh, cool. So with the ram upgrade and surface mounting the parts inplace of the slot, you could/will/have basically integrated the the whole N64 expansion pack onto the motherboard.
That's a good peace of info there, up till a tonight I thought the only way to keep the expansion pack and make it flat, was to remove the slot and trim the pac, and then wire it to the motherboard to lay flat.
cool stuff.
ohh, cool. So with the ram upgrade and surface mounting the parts inplace of the slot, you could/will/have basically integrated the the whole N64 expansion pack onto the motherboard.
That's a good peace of info there, up till a tonight I thought the only way to keep the expansion pack and make it flat, was to remove the slot and trim the pac, and then wire it to the motherboard to lay flat.
cool stuff.
ShockSlayer
Probably SS
Re: And so it begins
Not really anything revolutionary, and with proper positioning of the N64 mobo, hardwiring the resistors and cap's isn't required for it to fit in an SL68.
Which is the perfect portable size, and also smaller than the TSF, which is still the smallest until bud does exactly what I just said.
Except he may be putting batteries underneath the mobo instead, which would(maybe) require hardwiring the jumperpack. Still, not a big deal.
SS
Not really anything revolutionary, and with proper positioning of the N64 mobo, hardwiring the resistors and cap's isn't required for it to fit in an SL68.
Which is the perfect portable size, and also smaller than the TSF, which is still the smallest until bud does exactly what I just said.
Except he may be putting batteries underneath the mobo instead, which would(maybe) require hardwiring the jumperpack. Still, not a big deal.
SS
ShockSlayer
Probably SS
Re: Pocket64 WIP
Are you sure you don't want to call it the TriSixtyFourplay?
SS
Are you sure you don't want to call it the TriSixtyFourplay?
SS
