Minimalist ECB (MECB) – OLED Display 128×64 Card
I’ve always enjoyed playing with OLED display panels, with their sharp clear pixels, and inky blacks. Unlike LCD, where backlight driven displays turn blacks into greys and colours generally just …
Minimalist ECB (MECB) – Grid Cards for Prototyping & Wire Wrapping
Introducing a new family of plain Grid Cards, to join the existing Prototype Card family. You now have a choice of six different Cards for your MECB custom Card build …
Minimalist ECB (MECB) – W65C02S PLCC CPU Card
Last year, I made a PLCC packaged version of my 6809 CPU Card. This CPU Card also built in the functionality of the 1MB ROM Expansion Card, taking advantage of …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – Expanding the Glue Logic versatility
When I started out with creating my MECB platform standard, for retro 8-bit experimentation, I spent some time deciding on the best retro friendly way to implement a flexible glue-logic …
Minimalist Europe Card Bus (MECB) – V9938 or V9958 VDP RGBS Display Card
Ever since creating my existing TMS9918/992x VDP Card, I’ve thought that I’d also like to play with the TMS’s more capable successors, the V9938 and V9958 VDP’s. Also known as …
CreatiVision Keyboard v3 – Full Bidirectional PS/2 Compatibility (CreatiVision re-Creation Part 5)
If you are at all interested in PS/2 keyboard interfacing, then this post / video should be of interest to you! My CreatiVision Mechanical Keyboard was originally intended just for …
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) – CreatiVision re-Creation
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…