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Article #35194

Mega bus for 'small' STs

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From: Federico Heinz
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 08:51
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  After some digging (it's amazing how deep a magazine can get buried in
just one month) I found the magazine describing the Mega-bus expansion
for non-Mega STs. It's described as "hardware bricolage for experts",
it seems to get all signals directly from the processor, buffering some
lines and adding some (very little) support logic - but that is my
interpretation of the circuit, and hardware is little worse than a
zwahili dialect for me.

  The magazine is 'ST Magazin' (used to be '68000er'), from Markt &
Technik Verlag AG, Hans-Pinsel-Str. 2, D-8013 Haar bei Muenchen. They
also have some rep in the USA, M&T Publishing Inc., 501 Galveston Drive,
Redwood City, CA 94063.

  I personally don't like M&T's editorial line, but they do publish very
nice hacks. In the same issue, for instance, they tell you how to supply
your CPU with 16 Mhz while the rest of the system still runs at 10 Mhz,
giving you a performance boost and rendering the Blitter unusable. I
almost forgot: it's the october '88 issue. I hope this helps anyone out
there (in here?)

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		Federico Heinz                      "In Dubio Pro Libido"
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From: federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz)
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Subject: Mega bus for 'small' STs
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Date: 21 Nov 88 08:51:39 GMT
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