Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – Backplane Extension
I thought I’d start-off my 2025 season, with a relatively straight-forward MECB addition. So, here we have a MECB Backplane Extension for your existing MECB Backplane, which adheres to the …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6502 CreatiVision re-Creation (Part 4)
This Part 4 of my CreatiVision series is the culmination of my RetroChallenge 2024/10 project, where I designed my CreatiVision Mechanical Keyboard, to complete my CreatiVision project series. The progress …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6502 CreatiVision re-Creation (Part 3)
In Part 2, I presented my CreatiVision Controller, which had already gone through three revisions to bring it to v1.2, where I was finally happy to share my journey with …
RetroChallenge 2024/10 (RC2024)
So, after my last project, I’m actually itching to get back to my growing MECB related project list. But, I’m also keen to round-out my CreatiVision Controller journey, with my envisioned CreatiVision Keyboard…
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6502 CreatiVision re-Creation (Part 2)
In Part 1, where I introduced my MECB based CreatiVision re-Creation, I ended the post / Video with the CreatiVision Sonic Invader game running successfully in Attract mode. At that …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6502 CPU Card v1.3 Update!
The 6502 Card was my second CPU Card, designed for the Minimalist Europe Card Bus. It was also a key component for my “CreatiVision Console re-Creation” project, which I’m currently …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – Backplane v1.2 Updates!
The Backplane was the first Minimalist Europe Card Bus PCB that I designed. Which does obviously make sense, as a Backplane is needed before we can connect other MECB Cards …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6309 PLCC packaged CPU Card
Recently I published a post / video, covering some PLCC packaged CPU chips that I’d received as a donation from Lez Anderson. In that video, I built a custom PLCC …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – Improved Prototype Cards!
The first Card that I designed for MECB, was my original Prototype Card. I had originally intended to also create a second Prototype Card with a PLD present, for prototyping …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – 6502 CreatiVision re-Creation (Part 1)
Having recently completed a 6502 CPU Card for the Minimalist Europe Card system, I now have all of the system Cards that I need, for re-creating the early 80’s CreatiVision …