On December 9, 2017 I attended the World of Commodore 2017 show in Toronto to see (and hear) what was happening in my local retro computer scene, but mainly I wanted to sit in on a presentation by PLAnkton creator Francois Leveille (eslapion), entitled "The PLAin Truth About the Commodore 64 PLA." I recorded about 95% of Francois Leveille's presentation running about 28 minutes long.
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IMPORTANT ADDENDUM
It should be noted that the original "U17 PLAnkton" project was initially kicked-off by Fredric Blåholtz (@e5frog), mentioned by Francois Leveille at 28:55 of the video. In Mr. Blåholtz's words:
- [The project] started with me making one of those Nightfallcrew PLAs with the XC9536 and it worked pretty well...but it was not fully compatible - so I shipped one to Francois to find out why it wasn't 100%.
- Francois had shown needed skills with his EPROM PLA and had the equipment [to investigate further].
- At the time, the source VHDL for the mentioned version was not available (it is now) so I put together my own code and with Francois's low-level investigations, I changed the settings and code to reach the proper timings (where they matter).
- Francois decided on the needed circuitry, I CADed the board to specs - and success!
- Francois was overwhelmed with joy and wanted to start selling it right away. I was onboard for a few batches, selling it in Europe, but it was quite time-consuming so I sold my part to Francois and he has been making it by himself since last year or so.
- The full name is actually "U17 PLAnkton", as can be seen on the board. I thought it was important to highlight where to plug it in as some boards have the SID in the same region where other boards have the PLA.
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AFFILIATE LINKS
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Buy 'U17 PLAnkton' direct from Eslapion on eBay (100% positive feedback), ebay.us/yGyXuc:
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► Read an in-depth review of the World of Commodore 2017 at Greg Naçu's website, www.c64os.com/post?p=51
► Watch GadgetUK's video "Commodore 64 (C64) DIY PLA Replacement", • Commodore 64 (C64) DIY...
► Learn more about TPUG (Toronto PET Users Group), the longest continually operating Commodore users group in the world, www.tpug.ca
A special thanks to the following people for allowing to use their photos and video clips -- follow them on Twitter:
• Raymond Negron - @raymnegron
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• GadgetUK - @gadgetuk164
• Mermaid (Vanja Utne) for letting me use her amazing SID music in my videos - @CheesePirateEq2 ~ ~ ~ Tusen takk, Vanja!
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