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FM Towns Marty 2/4MB RAM expansion card reproduction

Very good job.If that electrolytic capacitor is a problem for the top cover I can use a smaller/lower one or a tantalum one.
 
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Ok the main box is complete. Nice tight fit around the connector. Everything is so carefully dialed in that I can probably remove the recessed screw holes entirely because it’s a very nice friction fit. I also increased the thickness of the base so that it sits flat on the shelf behind the Marty without putting any downward strain on the connector (though I accidentally made the extension a fraction smaller but that visible line has already been fixed). The top is almost done, but creating the slide switch to integrate with the top will be tricky.
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and final print in a filament as close as you can get to the marty colors :)

good work!
 
caius said:
Very good job.If that electrolytic capacitor is a problem for the top cover I can use a smaller/lower one or a tantalum one.
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I don’t think it will be an issue - it isn’t much taller than the connector so it’s not really adding much to the height. Have top finished just trying to work on a slide switch now.
 
Hi there ,

your work on FM Towns Marty is very impressive, any chance to have the SCSI card working on a FM Towns (tower model, first one)

The legacy one is very hard to be found :/
 
tugs said:
Hi there ,

your work on FM Towns Marty is very impressive, any chance to have the SCSI card working on a FM Towns (tower model, first one)

The legacy one is very hard to be found :/
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Thanks.
Actually on FM-TOWNS computers (desktop and tower models) you can use a SCSI emulator (like BlueSCSI, ZuluSCSI and so on).If you refer to very first model (Generation 1) you need an official Fujitsu add-on card (FMT-121) which is, as you said, very hard to obtain (sometimes it pops up on Yahoo Japan Auctions), the SCSI card I designed is for Marty only.Anyway, I have a Generation 1 tower, I can try to adapt the Marty SCSI card.
 
caius said:
Thanks.
Actually on FM-TOWNS computers (desktop and tower models) you can use a SCSI emulator (like BlueSCSI, ZuluSCSI and so on).If you refer to very first model (Generation 1) you need an official Fujitsu add-on card (FMT-121) which is, as you said, very hard to obtain (sometimes it pops up on Yahoo Japan Auctions), the SCSI card I designed is for Marty only.Anyway, I have a Generation 1 tower, I can try to adapt the Marty SCSI card.
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Thanks for this quick reply !

Yes I have already a SCSI emulator (PolySCSI from Polykubos / https://www.polykubos.fr/en/accueil...tml#/12-kit_polyscsi-polyscsi_assembled_board ) and it works very well with my FM Towns UX20 .

But as you said, FMT-121 is really (really - really) hard to find. I buy things regularly on Y!Auction (through Zenmarket or Buyee) but I only seen one long time ago and not sold separately from the Tower where it was inserted :) .


If you're able to adapt the Marty SCSI card to FM Towns tower item, my FM Towns' life becomes so perfect ! :D
 
Btw, @caius I just discovered "'FLIP-FLOP' - Sharp X68000 external FDD emulator" , do you plan to have a new batch available for this product ? I'm interested for my x68k (to provide a longer life to my floppy drives)
 
tugs said:
Btw, @caius I just discovered "'FLIP-FLOP' - Sharp X68000 external FDD emulator" , do you plan to have a new batch available for this product ? I'm interested for my x68k (to provide a longer life to my floppy drives)
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Very soon in stock again.
 
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