Hey Rewrite…please add me to the waitlist!
Roughly, how far out are we looking at the moment?
Sometime in Jan most likely for waitlisters. Will know better in a couple weeks. Completing 60x MVS, then 15x AES, then waitlist. I'll message when I'm ready to take deposits for carts.
About a third of the way through the P rom programming. I expect this to take a few more days. It's slow, fiddly, and sometimes you get to program 2-3x before it'll verify and dump perfectly. And I am /not/ messing around with taking chances and having to desolder them off the MVS cart to reprogram. So taking the extra time to get it right round 1.
S roms are complete.
M roms are complete.
All MVS boards are prepped (chips removed, holes cleaned).
S and M rom programming takes a degree of attention that doesn't allow one to do anything else in the meantime. Now that those are done I can start slowly socketing the MVS carts between P rom programming times.
I bribed a friend with some uncommon PCB goodness for some help, so once that's done I'll be passing off the carts to him to work on while I build and test 240 C rom boards T_T. When I get those back, it'll just be popping in C rom daughterboards and shipping. Probably be a few weeks of just making daughterboards, beeping them out, programming them, and shipping. Moderately high hopes to be done before Christmas and have everything shipped by New Year. Assuming I don't get picked at jury duty.
AES carts have arrived at the LA Sort Center, so I expect to see them early next week. I'll start programming the CPLDs and removing chips when they come in. It'll be a welcome change of pace, I'm sure.
