Turbo Everdrive PC Engine / Turbografx 16 Flash Card Nearing Release

[Jibbajaba]

After receiving my TE, I have absolutely no qualms about the fact that it's a bare board. And I agree about not covering the bottom, as it will change the insertion angle.

Chris

[Chuplayer]

Well, crap. I guess I'm not getting one with the cover, then.

[Duo_R]

got mine in the mail, anyone notice how thick the board is?

[djcouchycouch]

This isn't really a fully formed idea, but would it be possible to create a kind of adapter that would connect to the back of the TG16, take a USB key or SDCard and simulate a CD-Rom drive? And use the Turbo Everdrive for your CD system card?

[Drakon]

This isn't really a fully formed idea, but would it be possible to create a kind of adapter that would connect to the back of the TG16, take a USB key or SDCard and simulate a CD-Rom drive? And use the Turbo Everdrive for your CD system card?

I don't know if the fpga on the turbo everdrive is powerful enough to simulate the extra ram found in the cd system cards.  And probably krikzz is the only person capable of knowing how to program the OS for how it's used.  And yes I'm sure you could build something that plugs into the back and uses fpga to simulate the cd drive, but nobody has bothered yet and it takes a good amount of skill to build something like that.

Anyway I relocated the reset switch on my turbo everdrive on top of my custom case:





I know my case is very rough looking but it's absolutely perfect in terms of functionality.  I love having all the exposed hardware covered up nicely.

[roflmao]

That's pretty sweet, Drakon.  Man, I want one of those.

[Drakon]

That's pretty sweet, Drakon.  Man, I want one of those.

Thanks, obviously this's just something I quickly threw together for the sake of being able to play it and not worry about it getting somehow fried.  This's more like a prototype of how someone should make cases for them.  Really all you need to do is get a thick piece of clear (or whatever colour) plastic cut the same way I cut it (but with a machine doing it for extra precision).  Then you just carefully lightly hot glue the edges making sure that there's no extra glue on the sides so it still fits nicely.  And if the plastic you use is thin enough you wouldn't even need to relocate the reset button but I used a really thick piece for extra strength.  I started out with thin cheap plastic and it broke too easily which is obviously no good.

[Mishran]

Would it be possible to put a thin coat on the sensitive part of the board with a non-conductive material like a lacquer, hot glue, etc? Just a thought...

[HercTNT]

they make some kind of spray for that. i honestly can't think of the stuff. maybe someone can post a link if they knwo what i'm referring to

[Drakon]

Just for the sake of being able to repair the pcb I put on a cover that's removable without damaging the pcb.  It's alway good to be able to remove a cover.

[MottZilla]

This isn't really a fully formed idea, but would it be possible to create a kind of adapter that would connect to the back of the TG16, take a USB key or SDCard and simulate a CD-Rom drive? And use the Turbo Everdrive for your CD system card?

I don't know if the fpga on the turbo everdrive is powerful enough to simulate the extra ram found in the cd system cards.  And probably krikzz is the only person capable of knowing how to program the OS for how it's used.  And yes I'm sure you could build something that plugs into the back and uses fpga to simulate the cd drive, but nobody has bothered yet and it takes a good amount of skill to build something like that.

You can't "simulate" the extra RAM. And the Turbo ED contains no RAM at all. However on a Super CD-ROM system, the RAM is available to other HuCards as the Turbo ED can run BIOS images. So the Turbo ED could possibly use a hacked BIOS image and load off the SD card. But there would be no redbook audio. Though with the USB port you could in theory cue another device like a PC to play the audio.

[Drakon]

You could probably fpga the entire cd unit but it would take a much stronger fpga than what the turbo everdrive has most likely.  You could build it with ram and anything else it would need.  I'm sure you could fully recreate redbook audio with a powerful enough fpga setup.

[Duo_R]

Here is my case, just for storage:

[Jibbajaba]

That's a nice case.  Where did you find it?

[Duo_R]

It is a cover that came with an old PCMCIA slot card for an old IBM laptop. The hucard sleaves fit but this protects better