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A project log for Excalibur 64 - A new build

Or should that be 'A new hope'?

daveDave • 06/10/2026 at 03:16•0 Comments

The 6331-1 PROM used for the colour palette is not very new. So are a bit expensive and need a special programmer. The average programmer, like the TL-866, don't supply the right programming voltage for it. So being bipolar it needs something more specific and this is it. A manual programmer where you have to flick switches for the address then load the value for that address. This board is very similar to what was published in the early eighties by ETI and probably a lot of other magazines as well. The PROMs are one time programmable so need to take it nice a slow.

Have all the bits so will be building it like it's 1984.

Quick specs of the 6331-1

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