Behold the latest AbCard

[Mishran]

Three cheers for The Old Man! Hip, hip, OBEY! Hip, hip, OBEY! Hip, hip, OBEY!

[T2KFreeker]

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

Keep in mind, it's not just me doing this card stuff.   The credit belongs to OldMan, and his MacGyver shenanigans that resulted in this stuff.

Awesome. Glad you are giving credit where it is due. Rare these days, sadly. You go Old Man!

[esteban]

The FabCard is quite splendid. You can send one to me at your convenience.

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

Well, I'm even later to the party.

[BlueBMW]

The FapCard is quite splendid. You can send one to me at your convenience.

Well, I'm even later to the party.

Fix'd for ya

[spenoza]

Call it the AbFabCard and you'll have to provide it with a startup BIOS with a Pet Shop Boys tune.

[FiftyQuid]

I assume this allows you to "backup" (program) any TG-16 game onto it?  I know I'm a noob, but I really want to know.

[Arkhan]

I assume this allows you to "backup" (program) any TG-16 game onto it?  I know I'm a noob, but I really want to know.

no.   These will have the games being made by Aetherbyte, burned in-house.

[BeaglePuss]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?  I'm just trying to wrap my head around what the final product would look like.

Excellent work btw to all involved.  That pcb is mighty impressive looking.  I've gone through the process of (attempting) to have Genesis pcbs produced, so I can appreciate the amount of work involved in such an endeavor.

[SignOfZeta]

It will be a game that looks more or less just like production HuCards from back in the day. It will have software on it, for good, and have no bulges.

[Arkhan]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?  I'm just trying to wrap my head around what the final product would look like.

Excellent work btw to all involved.  That pcb is mighty impressive looking.  I've gone through the process of (attempting) to have Genesis pcbs produced, so I can appreciate the amount of work involved in such an endeavor.

There's what our current working prototype looks like.

There already is a ROM chip on these suckers.

[TheOldMan]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?

They are flash eproms. And if you are looking at the blue boards, that's pretty much what they will look like, as a final version. There's one more intermediate version we're building to see what the demand is, that no one has seen yet.

(Yes, they are the same size as a HuCard. Flash eproms are just slightly thicker that the original mask eproms, but the carrier is thick enough to accomodate that)

[BeaglePuss]

Hot damn, the craftsmanship is outstanding.  I must say, I couldn't be more impressed.

Did you guys create your own flash programmer for the pcbs?  If so, do you have any pictures of that?

[TheOldMan]

Did you guys create your own flash programmer for the pcbs?

I tried, but there were.....problems. So we bought a Willem programmer, and made an adapter for it.
Best $50 I ever spent.

[BeaglePuss]

Haha, that's fantastic.

[Arkhan]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?

They are flash eproms. And if you are looking at the blue boards, that's pretty much what they will look like, as a final version. There's one more intermediate version we're building to see what the demand is, that no one has seen yet.

(Yes, they are the same size as a HuCard. Flash eproms are just slightly thicker that the original mask eproms, but the carrier is thick enough to accomodate that)

yeah, if you look closesly at the back you can see the spot where the chip is.