MID-July UPDATE

The C256 Foenix Project

The time to get a 
C256 FMX
is closing in...

 

The 1st of August I will stop taking orders for the C256 FMX Boards that ought to ship towards the end of the month of August. Right now, the first batch of PCBs are in productions and they will soon be tested and manufactured and ship to the early adopters.
If you have been wanting to get one, this is the time since I won't be making another batch before the end of the year and so they will be back in pre-order for delivery in Dec 2019.

So the deadline is the 31st of July 2019. All the orders received by then will be shipped in the upcoming month and all the orders that come afterward will be shipped in Jan 2020.

 

What is the C256 FMX?

Here are the final specifications:

 

SYSTEM

65C816 CPU @ 14Mhz

4MBytes Code SRAM

3.5" Floppy Controller (1 Drive installed)
SD Card Slot

44Pins 2.5" HD IDE Connector

PS2 Keyboard, PS2 Mouse
1 Parallel Port, 2 Serial Ports

4 Joystick Ports
(4 Atari Style, 2 Analog, 2 SNES*)

Full Expansion Port

SDMA @ 56Mhz

Math Co-Processor

RTC with CR2 Battery (not provided)


VIDEO
VICKY Video Processor @ 100Mhz

4Mbytes of Video SRAM

400MPixels/Sec Transfer Rate

VGA/SVGA Video Support **

Bitmap

4 Tiles Layers

32 Sprites

Game/GUI Mode

Hardware Mouse Pointer

256 Colors Per Pixel / 4/8 LUTs

VDMA @ 400Mpixes/Sec

Etc...

 

 

AUDIO

16Bits CODEC with a mixer of the following inputs:
1- OPL3
2- FPGA SID
3- Dual Real SID (Empty Sockets)

4- YM2612 (OPN2 / Real)
5- SN76489 (PSG / Real)

6- External Line-In from the RCA Line-In

7- External Line-In from the Expansion Bus

Midi-In/Midi-Out (uses Mini-Din5)

1MBytes SRAM for Sound Playback/Capture Memory
MDMA

RCA Line Output

Headphone Jack

 

*Requires an adapter

** Possibility of 320 x 240 at some point (Pixel Doubler)

The C256 Foenix Project

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