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The H4/5 motherboards have an array of expansion bus sockets ranging from 4x original 5V 68k Bus footprints to plug boards into and the 2x 3V3 68k Bus footprints to plug more cost effective boards into on the H5.
Below is a small summary of all the boards that are in development or available as part of the Phoenix platform. In addition we are providing a status of the boards with this key:
- PROTOTYPING - still in development and not available
- BETA - still in development but may be available to a small group of testers
- AVAILABLE - to the public
Flashy Clock - BETA
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Flashy Clock is an e-board designed for the H5 platform but will have a 3V3 bus extension board to allow use in an STFM or H4. Flashy Clock derives its name from two of its major features, Flash ROM and a Real Time Clock (RTC).
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Below is a list of the board features:
Flash ROM
- Ability to boot from up to 5x ROM images
- 4x 256K flashable ROM banks to store TOS, EmuTOS or other bootable ROM images
- Ability to boot from the motherboard ROM. No need to remove ROM from the motherboard
- Failsafe jumper to boot directly from motherboard ROM in case of issues
- Software to load ROM images into ROM banks
- Software selectable ROM bank including motherboard ROM
- Real Time Clock based on the Falcon RTC
- NVRAM available for future settings
- 8MB ALT RAM
Trudie - AVAILABLE
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Trudie is an IDE e-board deriving its name from True IDE.
Below is a list of the board features:
- Master and Slave IDE. Slave available with the use of a master / slave cable and setting the appropriate jumpers on the devices
- Hardware Byte Swap allowing drives to be used with PCs / Macs
- Option for additional HDD/FDD LED board modification
- Built-in TOS 206 Decoder
SEC Booster - PROTOTYPING
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SEC Booster e-board is a CPU accelerator board based on the SEC 68K chip.
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Below is a list of the board features:
- Speeds of up to 75MHz currently tested
As well as the 68K Buses there are a few other boards available for the H4/5 as e-boards
Phoenix Shifter - PROTOTYPING
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The Phoenix Shifter is an e-board leveraging the great work @Smonson created to replace the original shifter chip. This board fits in the H4/5 and provides an HDMI socket in place of the 13 pin ST monitor port. There is also an original ST version in the pipeline. The Phoenix Shifter provides direct digital scaling to an HDMI compatible resolution.
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Below is a list of the board features:
Video
- Direct Shifter replacement in H4/5
- Full support of Low, Med and High resolutions
- Ability to switch between Low, Med and High resolutions seamlessly and without a cable swap using patched TOS or PhoenixOS
- Scan line mode to provide the CRT look
- Audio mixer providing mixing of the three YM chip outputs and L/R from S2 or X2 MIDI boards together
- Output of mixed audio available for exit to socket of choice
- Audio mixed into HDMI stream as part of the HDMI output
- Internal registers for settings
- SPI bus
- Refresh rate LEDs
Phoenix Sparkalaphobia - PROTOTYPING
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Phoenix Sparkalaphobia is a Blitter recreation using FPGA and takes its name from the fear of Glitter, which in turn is the auto-correction of Blitter.
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Below is a list of the board features:
- Fits PLCC Blitter pin-out H4/H5 boards
