compact flash ⁽⁴⁾

I've prototyped a simple interface for a usb flash drive to a microbee. It uses a CH376 interface board (about ~$5-$10 on aliexpress) and connects to the data bus of a bee and a few signals with 14 wires. I'm currently running a freebee cf…

With a little bit of tweaking, some reverse engineering, wire, vero board and a magnifying glass, the microbee boots from flash. Here's how I built the hardware interface. Here is where the interface will connect the the 128k coreboard. Note the three holes near the…

Well the magic smoke escaped from the power supply. This stopped procedings for a couple of days while we sorted out the issue. Decided to replace the original mid '80s power supply with a new one. Got back to working with the CF and have…

Have been playing with my microbee and looking at a simple compact flash interface. Not 100% sure if I'll continue with it as is or alter it. The simple interface uses an 8 bit data bus. Downside is that it effectively halves the capacity of…