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Please welcome the ICR to the family

A project log for 74HCT6526

Building a Drop-In Replacement for the MOS6526. Sponsored by PCBWay

daniel-molinaDaniel Molina 01/13/2023 at 09:290 Comments

I want to introduce you to the newest member of the family.

B3, with ICR fully populated. The upper half of the board is the SDR, but I won't be soldering that in until ICR is validated. There are a couple of expensive ICs there (Two 74299 shifters) which I'd rather not to solder until I know the ICR works fine.

And... to my great surprise... it does. I've been only able to do some minor tests, as I finished assembling the ICR just a couple hours ago. So far :

This is truly a huge milestone. I will test as soon as possible the full stack on a real C64, as now I have pretty much everything needed by the computer to work properly. TOD, SDR and Flag interrupts are not used a lot. 

Today, after 4 and a half years of work, I'm 99% sure this project will succeed!

Cheers!

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