Behold the latest AbCard

[Arkhan Asylum]

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=368814799857563

[roflmao]

So when can I sign up for a raffle to win one of those!?

[Opethian]

TISSUES WONT CUT IT I NEED A SOCK OR AN OLD CURTAIN!!

[PunkCryborg]

CHINA WARRIOR OMG!! What a great game! Oh yeah that blue thing next it is pretty cool too, what is it a snow scraper?

[Mishran]

Wow, it's missing the hump! All the cool cards have humps... No hump = FAIL... 

But seriously, looking good. Nice choice of color too, can we pick and choose our card color? If so, sign me up for pink.

[Arkhan Asylum]

no, I picked blue to match Atlantean's underwaterness

[Samurai Ghost]

So fucking amazing!!!!

And back the fuck up my brother, did you say Atlantean?!

[thesteve]

is that a pcb with  epoxy fill backing?
thats what i was thinking would be perfect

[NecroPhile]

Lookin' good!

[Arkhan Asylum]

is that a pcb with  epoxy fill backing?
thats what i was thinking would be perfect

No, that's actual plastic.



and yeah Samurai Ghost.  Atlantean, on the AbCard.

It'll be tits.

[soop]

Am I the only one who can't see an actual card?

[spenoza]

Am I the only one who can't see an actual card?

Probably. Do you see any of the pictures? It's the circuit board next to the China Warrior.

[henrycsc]

sexy sexy sexy

[soop]

I can't see it and I need to.  I checked the page source, and it seems I can't get to it :S

*edit* used my phone.  That looks sick.  You gonna print on it?

[Arkhan Asylum]

Yeah.  We can etch similar to the protocards, and do it so they are colored

I would love to bust out some sweet labels, but stickers will wear out over time. :-/

[NecroPhile]

I would love to bust out some sweet labels, but stickers will wear out over time. :-/

Only if abused.  My Arcade Card Duo is almost able to vote and its sticker looks fine.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Yeah.

heck, even NES cart labels survived.

So, maybe that will work just fine.

Have to make sure it's some damn fine adhesive.   None of that hippy shit.

[MottZilla]

Good adhesive and a good finish over whatever artwork you put onto it. Labels in "reproduction" carts can hold up well if you put some kind of laminate or other finish on top of your label artwork.

[BlackandBlue]

Need more tissues....

[CrackTiger]

Maybe have labels printed as the type of durable sticker that people put on stuff like snowboards, which are stuper sticky and made to withstand the elements?

[TheClash603]

That looks awesome.  Great work over there, definitely the most exciting homebrew project on any system right now.

Ironic that is the same lotion i use, makes your penis taste fine for the ladies.

[thesteve]

TMI clash

[TailChao]

It is a little hard to tell from the pictures, but are you sanding/rounding the area of the card below the contacts?
If you leave it square, it's going to wear the slot.

[HercTNT]

Tail, Considering the guy can make a Hucard to begin with, i'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing.

[OldMan]

are you sanding/rounding the area of the card below the contacts?
If you leave it square, it's going to wear the slot.

Not exactly sure where you are talking about, but...

The current version is for testing. So, no, not much is sanded that doesn't have to be.

Final production versions will have rounded corners. And, if I understand correctly....
In a side-view profile, the edge where the contacts are will be beveled at ~45 degree angle.
These two steps are necessary for the card to seat correctly.

Depending on how long it takes to do it, we may go ahead and knock off all the square edges around the entire board.

[TailChao]

Tail, Considering the guy can make a Hucard to begin with, i'm pretty sure he knows what he's doing.

I ruined a few sockets since I didn't do this on my early Lynx test cards, which is why I asked.

Not exactly sure where you are talking about, but...

The current version is for testing. So, no, not much is sanded that doesn't have to be.

Final production versions will have rounded corners. And, if I understand correctly....
In a side-view profile, the edge where the contacts are will be beveled at ~45 degree angle.
These two steps are necessary for the card to seat correctly.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was wondering about. Thanks.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Yeah.  A handful of people asked the same thing about stressing the connector out at the CCAG, and I told them the same thing.


At least people are concerned about the safety of their consoles. 

[T2KFreeker]

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

[SuperPlay]

very nice work :@)

[Arkhan Asylum]

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

Keep in mind, it's not just me doing this card stuff.   The credit belongs to OldMan, and his MacGyver shenanigans that resulted in this stuff.

[Mishran]

Three cheers for The Old Man! Hip, hip, OBEY! Hip, hip, OBEY! Hip, hip, OBEY!

[T2KFreeker]

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

Keep in mind, it's not just me doing this card stuff.   The credit belongs to OldMan, and his MacGyver shenanigans that resulted in this stuff.

Awesome. Glad you are giving credit where it is due. Rare these days, sadly. You go Old Man!

[esteban]

The FabCard is quite splendid. You can send one to me at your convenience.

Yeah man, late to the party again, but this is awesome. Loving the stuff you are coming up with Ark. I can't wait for these to be mass produced so we can all put candles around them and OBEY!!!!

Well, I'm even later to the party.

[BlueBMW]

The FapCard is quite splendid. You can send one to me at your convenience.

Well, I'm even later to the party.

Fix'd for ya

[spenoza]

Call it the AbFabCard and you'll have to provide it with a startup BIOS with a Pet Shop Boys tune.

[FiftyQuid]

I assume this allows you to "backup" (program) any TG-16 game onto it?  I know I'm a noob, but I really want to know.

[Arkhan Asylum]

I assume this allows you to "backup" (program) any TG-16 game onto it?  I know I'm a noob, but I really want to know.

no.   These will have the games being made by Aetherbyte, burned in-house.

[BeaglePuss]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?  I'm just trying to wrap my head around what the final product would look like.

Excellent work btw to all involved.  That pcb is mighty impressive looking.  I've gone through the process of (attempting) to have Genesis pcbs produced, so I can appreciate the amount of work involved in such an endeavor.

[SignOfZeta]

It will be a game that looks more or less just like production HuCards from back in the day. It will have software on it, for good, and have no bulges.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?  I'm just trying to wrap my head around what the final product would look like.

Excellent work btw to all involved.  That pcb is mighty impressive looking.  I've gone through the process of (attempting) to have Genesis pcbs produced, so I can appreciate the amount of work involved in such an endeavor.

There's what our current working prototype looks like.

There already is a ROM chip on these suckers.

[OldMan]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?

They are flash eproms. And if you are looking at the blue boards, that's pretty much what they will look like, as a final version. There's one more intermediate version we're building to see what the demand is, that no one has seen yet.

(Yes, they are the same size as a HuCard. Flash eproms are just slightly thicker that the original mask eproms, but the carrier is thick enough to accomodate that)

[BeaglePuss]

Hot damn, the craftsmanship is outstanding.  I must say, I couldn't be more impressed.

Did you guys create your own flash programmer for the pcbs?  If so, do you have any pictures of that?

[OldMan]

Did you guys create your own flash programmer for the pcbs?

I tried, but there were.....problems. So we bought a Willem programmer, and made an adapter for it.
Best $50 I ever spent.

[BeaglePuss]

Haha, that's fantastic.

[Arkhan Asylum]

Will Aetherbyte being adding EPROMs to the board or smaller mask roms?

They are flash eproms. And if you are looking at the blue boards, that's pretty much what they will look like, as a final version. There's one more intermediate version we're building to see what the demand is, that no one has seen yet.

(Yes, they are the same size as a HuCard. Flash eproms are just slightly thicker that the original mask eproms, but the carrier is thick enough to accomodate that)

yeah, if you look closesly at the back you can see the spot where the chip is.

[Mathius]

Wow, guys! The love and dedication exhibited here makes me proud to be a member of the PCE community.

[Duo_R]

Wow that is impressive

[Bernie]

Very impressive.  Question....why the helmet????!!!!  lmao

[Arkhan Asylum]

Very impressive.  Question....why the helmet????!!!!  lmao

[BlueBMW]

Commander Keen.. WIN