Passion for technology

20-09-2014 :

New batch of 5V CPLD's for the MIDI-PAC

11-08-2014 :

Orbit PCB layout has started

01-08-2014 :

Styles CD preview added to music player

12-07-2014 :

New WORP3 website online.

10-04-2014 :

Short Orbit update

31-08-2013 :

New MIDI-PAC firmware version 0.80

21-06-2013 :

General update

It's a while ago that you could read a new message here, luckily this doesn't mean that there wasn't any progress.
As our twitter friend already know, a lot of time has been spent in completing all of the schematics of the Orbit main-board.
To give you an idea of has been done lately, here a short summary:

  • USB PHY, HUB controller, RTC, Audio codec, Audio decoder,
    main memory and VRAM memory chips has been selected and ordered.
  • High speed interface schematic completed.
  • USB PHY schematic completed.
  • USB HUB schematic completed.
  • RTC schematic completed.
  • Audio mixer schematic completed.
  • Audio codec schematic completed.
  • MSX bus and front driver schematic completed.
  • Midi interface schematic completed.
  • FPGA has been selected and added to the library.
You can see, a lot of progress and in fact it's almost time to start with the PCB layout.

20-03-2013 :

MSX music pack update

31-01-2013 :

MIDI-PAC Midi file player

02-01-2013 :

Fresh new year

28-11-2012 :

Parts for the second prototype has been ordered

01-10-2012 :

New pcb boards assembled/updated Orbit pictures

19-09-2012 :

The first three boards arrived

25-06-2012 :

First prototype painted and assembled

10-05-2012 :

Orbit progress update

19-04-2012 :

Receiving the sheet metal parts

15-03-2012 :

Receiving the first plastic Orbit parts

23-02-2012 :

Receiving the first Orbit components

06-02-2012 :

History page

24-01-2012 :

Start of a new project "Orbit"

05-01-2012 :

New MIDI-PAC beta version

02-01-2012 :

New MIDI-PAC sample files

10-11-2011 :

New MIDI-PAC MPC file

23-09-2011 :

Project page template changed

27-07-2011 :

MPCONFIG update

23-07-2011 :

MIDI-PAC Applications update

19-07-2011 :

New version of the MIDI-PAC manual

07-06-2011 :

MPCONFIG update

02-05-2011 :

New MPCONFIG update

26-04-2011 :

New MIDI-PAC version

12-04-2011 :

MIDI-PAC Update bulletin

19-02-2011 :

First release of the MIDI-PAC manual

04-02-2011 :

New MIDI-PAC MPC file

21-01-2011 :

New MIDI-PAC software pack

10-01-2011 :

Giant msx music pack has been added to the download section

21-12-2010 :

New version of the MIDI-PAC PCB did arrive

20-12-2010 :

Download section rewritten, added some more MIDI-PAC utilities

20-12-2010 :

ACE Sound studio programmers documentation added to the download section

16-12-2010 :

MSX Music program has been added to the download section

28-11-2010 :

MPUPDATE utility for MSX-DOS placed within the download section

24-10-2010 :

First two MIDI-PAC modules have been shipped

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