A New Acorn Electron ULA for the First Time in 40 Years

All your broken Acorn Electrons gathering dust in a cupboard can now be brought back to life. Thanks to Chris/Mogway/Jamsoft who has recreated the notorious Elk ULA using an FPGA and other bits of software wizardry. And now its possible to build a new Electron motherboard from all new parts too with the addition of a recreated motherboard from the clever Board Folk! You can even replace the original keyboard with a cheapo PS2 one!

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Chris' Github: https://github.com/moogway82/JamSoftElectronULA

Stardot where you can order the JamSoftElectronULA https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=29226

Andy Burges (budgie) ElectronULA Basic Board for more bells and whistles: https://github.com/EquasysIT/ElectronULA

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GrandOldIan (PS2 Keyboard Adapter) https://github.com/grandoldian

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00:00 So What Is It? 04:42 Chat With A Genius 06:51 Scrap Board Challenge 10:53 Building an Elk ULA 11:06 Banana for Scale 12:03 Soldering TINY TINY Things 15:31 The Finangling Nerd pt1 17:45 Programming FPGA Witchcraft 19:52 Scrap Board Is Scrap Again 19:58 It Doesn't Work! 20:19 Blown Tant 20:42 Making it Work 21:00 Pesky Resistor Arrays 21:37 The Finangling Nerd pt2 22:30 It LIVES! 22:37 That Genius is back 22:57 Looking at Future Rebuild Options 24:00 PS2 Keyboard Adapter 25:08 Those Clever Board Folk! 25:55 Playing Chuckie Egg 26:16 Zalaga and the AMAZING Boost Mode 28:45 THE BEST BIT!