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Audio Filter redesign and more MSX games.

Audio Filter Redesign After building the more compact Casduino design I started thinking about building an Arduitape in a PP9 case as well which meant adding an extra GND pin to the main Casduino board but most importantly a smaller Audio filter to fit snuggly within the case. I managed to get the design down to 25mm by 15mm so there should be more than enough room. The components are exactly the same as the previous filter. Here is what the build looks like. 5p for scale. More MSX .CAS Files Going through the TOSEC MSX .CAS files I noticed a few more games that were not available in English were on eBay so I quickly bought them and converted them .CAS files for everyone to enjoy. In the .ZIP files are the instructions, box art, etc as well. Football Manager - World Cup Edition. Punch And Judy Next Plans My next plans are to build an Arduitape in a PP9 box and hopefully do a full write up on how to build it with all the components and instructions downloadabl...

Building a Casduino

Building The Casduino The main board for the Casduino is very similar to the MarkII board but as I had a specific project case in mind the dimensions needed to be changed. I had used an Evatron PPN Case in another project and wanted to use one for this to make a more compact and stylish product however the internal dimensions would make things a little more tricky. Although the actual board design in mine is slightly different I feel that the following one should give the best fit.   The only difference I would make to the design is add right angled pins for the GND and VCC connectors on the right of the board. Also I soldered the Arduino Nano directly to the board as adding a DIL socket would just make it more difficult to fit in the Case Rather than the usual buttons I ordered  some with different coloured caps, again to give a more polished look. Here is a template of how to cut out the hole for the LCD (Thanks to spcbm from Amibay for his t emplate for the Tapui...

Update of .CAS files for the MSX

Some new, different, patched, and now working game for the MSX. I've recently been building a smaller version of the CasDuino and have now finished it but I've also been able to buy a few games on cassette that are either not working or downloads are not in English (using the last TOSEC MSX_MSX_TOSEC_2012_04_23 download). I've converted these to .CAS files and am making them available to download. Football Manager was only previously available as a disk file Les Flics was listed to use BLOAD"CAS:",R as the load command but to get it to work you actually should type BLOAD"pss",r Uchi Mata previously only worked if you pressed CTRL+STOP once the .CAS file stopped loading. This has now been fixed Vampire This was not in the last TOSEC download and I have two slightly different versions. The game is still the same but the loading is different. Xenon was a game only available in Spanish and had a terrible bug where you couldn't use a joystick. This...