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Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since the last news post, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been quiet or absent, on the contrary I’ve been busier than ever. These past few months have been the busiest I can remember in the last few years in the MiSTer FPGA community with the completion of the N64 core, the new amazing cores that are arriving week by week, the spectacular progress of the Saturn core and… the appearance of the “clones” of our beloved DE10-Nano, which bring new possibilities for everyone and a more economical way to access this world, and that last has had a lot to do with the tremendous workload I’ve had these past few months, because instead of just produce more Lite boards I decided to hold and bury myself in schematics and diagrams… The new Ironclad Lite with support for DE10-Nano, QMTECH Cyclone V and Mister Pi: One board to rule them all! It hasn’t been Read more…

Hello everybody! It has been a long time since the last news post, but that does not mean I have been doing nothing as you will see 😉 I finally had some vacations in August and thanks to that i recovered myself from years of incessant work, but before having some rest Batch 7 was completely finished and shipped and i also managed to have time to develop a new addition to the Ironclad Plus family… The Mt32-Pi PRO Internal Hat The previous UserIO2 model has been renamed to “Easy” to differentiate between both, also the price of both is not the same but renaming it makes the identification easier as i plan to keep making and supporting the “Easy” model. The main advantage of the Easy model is that it is plug and play, it needs modified cores to work but once installed it just works transparent to the user, the need for the modified cores is also its Read more…

Happy holidays everybody!, it has been a while since the last update, but sometimes this work is a bit overwhelming and i have to accumulate news to do long posts like this ;)… well here I am with exciting news about the advancements of the Ironclad Plus project. When the Ironclad Plus was announced about a year and a half ago, i talked about an accessory I had in mind to improve the audio fidelity and incorporate headphones output, and i did the Ironclad Plus from the beginning with a special port called “Audio Exp” with that purpose in mind. I was certain I wanted to launch such a great add-on, as I am a big fan of retro synthesizers myself, but we had a rough year, supply of the necessary components was hard, or too expensive to be practical, and the Ironclad production was taking 100% of my time… Well i managed to improve on that over time and… Read more…

Hi everybody!, it has been a very busy summer but Batch 3 is almost completely shipped, only a small number of orders remain, but they will all be shipped this week. Batch 4 is in production and will start shipping before the end of September, about the advertised date this time. I will do everything i can to have it shipped asap and keep you posted at the front page, meanwhile i managed to reserve all the parts and arrange my place at the factory to manufacture another batch. The new batch, the 5th (I thought about another name this time, like “Batch 360” but, oh well…) will start shipping in December 2022 and everything remains the same, as i still cannot produce them fast enough to meet the demand and have stock available for immediate shipping, thanks to you ;). I have updated some sections of the web and pictures to reflect the small cosmetic changes and some features Read more…

Hi everybody, I have finally managed to get, or arrange, enough supply of parts to make another batch of the Mini-ITX Ironclad Plus, this time with the stellar addition of the Internal Mt32-Pi Hat, something i thought was not possible when i started in this, now it is a reality. It was not easy to get to this stage, the semiconductor crisis has not finished and i would say it got even worse in the last months after the war in Ukraine, gas prices (and shipping prices) skyrocketing, China’s lockdowns, etc, some ICs, specially the main microcontroller, went out of stock and you could only get them at 10X scalping prices, crazy circumstances indeed. So… go to the shop section and pre-order now! 😉 As always every purchaser has his unit assured and shipping is done in order of purchase. For this new batch the expected date when the shipments will start is September 2022, and the available quantity is Read more…