A New Acorn Electron ULA for the First Time in 40 Years
All your broken Acorn Electrons gathering dust in a cupboard can now be brought back to life. Thanks to Chris/Mogway/Jamsoft who has recreated the notorious Elk ULA using an FPGA and other bits of software wizardry. And now its possible to build a new Electron motherboard from all new parts too with the addition of a recreated motherboard from the clever Board Folk! You can even replace the original keyboard with a cheapo PS2 one!
Full length chat with Chris on @morefunfixingit
https://youtu.be/nDv_5-MIfCg
Chris' Github:
https://github.com/moogway82/JamSoftElectronULA
Stardot where you can order the JamSoftElectronULA
https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29226
Andy Burges (budgie) ElectronULA Basic Board for more bells and whistles:
https://github.com/EquasysIT/ElectronULA
The Board Folk!
https://github.com/Board-Folk
GrandOldIan (PS2 Keyboard Adapter)
https://github.com/Board-Folk/keys/tree/main/Acorn%20Electron
@RetroBytesUK Acorn Electron Video
https://youtu.be/SrayIPh22Dk
SECOND CHANNEL!
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More Fun Website
https://www.morefunmakingit.co.uk/
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00:00 So What Is It?
04:42 Chat With A Genius
06:51 Scrap Board Challenge
10:53 Building an Elk ULA
11:06 Banana for Scale
12:03 Soldering TINY TINY Things
15:31 The Finangling Nerd pt1
17:45 Programming FPGA Witchcraft
19:52 Scrap Board Is Scrap Again
19:58 It Doesn't Work!
20:19 Blown Tant
20:42 Making it Work
21:00 Pesky Resistor Arrays
21:37 The Finangling Nerd pt2
22:30 It LIVES!
22:37 That Genius is back
22:57 Looking at Future Rebuild Options
24:00 PS2 Keyboard Adapter
25:08 Those Clever Board Folk!
25:55 Playing Chuckie Egg
26:16 Zalaga and the AMAZING Boost Mode
28:45 THE BEST BIT!