DIY ColecoVision

Added the reset circuit today. Yay me! Stay tuned for more...

While considering going to the Tosche station to pick up some power converters I decided to wait for DHL instead and populate the components for the VDP clock tripler. Looks like it's working. Updated instructions and calling it a day.

Okay, so I can write a log. Let me do that. I got 5 sample boards in December 2024, parts arrived late December, and now (Feb 25) I'm starting to populate the board and document my progress. Hopefully there will be no issues, but we'll see.

I'm already incorporating minor layout changes, moving components slightly to make them more accessible, etc.

The power supply and clocks are populated and working. I'll build the clock multiplier to test the circuitry on this board, but normally I'd just populate the 10.7 MHz crystal because that's simpler. Those using the Pico won't need to bother with VDP clock generation or TMSRGB at all.

Again waiting for parts to complete the -5V converter and the next big step will be making an initial version of the two Memory and IO GALs to get basic CV mode running.