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HYDRA XTREME 512K SRAM Card going on sale next week

AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
edited 2007-05-24 07:00 in Propeller 1
I will start sales of the SRAM card next week for $59.95. It will be sold on the www.xgamestation.com site and hopefully shortly thereafter available on the here on the Parallax site as well. I need to estimate initial manufacturing. We are doing a short run locally like right now, need to know how "short/long" to make it.

How many plan to buy one? Or plan to buy a Hydra with one?

I just need a rough idea, so I can keep the wait time down as we burn thru units and build them. Don't want to make 1000 if 10 people want to buy them initially.

The cards will be sold first come first served until we have more than we can sell. So if we run out then you are queued in order and when the next card is ready you get it kind of thing.

Thanks,

Andre'
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1200 x 750 - 160K

Comments

  • nutsonnutson Posts: 242
    edited 2007-05-18 09:31
    I order 2. PM me to exchange·shipping and payment detaila (I am living in the Netherlands)·

    Nico Hattink
  • Karl SmithKarl Smith Posts: 50
    edited 2007-05-18 10:38
    I'm going to wait till it's on parallax's site, I need other things from them soon
  • El PaisaEl Paisa Posts: 375
    edited 2007-05-18 11:45
    Andre',

    I went to the http://www.xgamestation.com/·place and could not find the place to order the card.

    I would like to buy one.
  • HallomannHallomann Posts: 21
    edited 2007-05-18 13:56
    I want to buy one in 1-2 months^^

    Cheers,
    Hallomann
  • Jasper_MJasper_M Posts: 222
    edited 2007-05-18 14:12
    I'll buy one right when it's released ^_^ ... I was hoping that it'd come on sale on Parallax simultaneously so I could order a protoboard too, but... no can do. : (
  • MinimumWageMinimumWage Posts: 72
    edited 2007-05-18 15:53
    I'll get one, but like others I'd like to order from Parallax since I have a couple of other things I'd like to get from them as well.
  • epmoyerepmoyer Posts: 314
    edited 2007-05-18 18:31
    I'm in for 1. Opening day. SpaceWar! is going full color baby.
  • RedNifreRedNifre Posts: 84
    edited 2007-05-21 04:20
    Hmmm...

    I don't know much about hardware. How does this SRAM card compare to the blank experimenter card equipped with a SD slot?
  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2007-05-21 04:56
    Andre,
    I'm interested in one.
    Mike
  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2007-05-21 05:16
    Completely different creature. The SRAM card basically is STATIC RAM, not SD memory over a serial port. So its 100x faster for one thing, so it can be used for graphics buffers and so forth. Thus, just think of it as plugging another 1gb memory stick into your PC. Same idea.

    Andre'
  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2007-05-21 21:44
    Hmmm, I think you are thinking apples and oranges you are asking about eeproms then srams recast your question maybe? Not sure what you are trying to ask? The card comes with a 128K x 8 serial eeprom and a 512K x 8 SRAM. The design is for a 512K SRAM, so that's hard to increase since the PCB layout, CPLD etc. would change. However, if you can find a larger EEPROM you can always solder on there and replace the other, but I doubt anyone has even taken advantage yet of the 128K I put on there, since most people are still working with the first 32K.

    Andre'
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  • epmoyerepmoyer Posts: 314
    edited 2007-05-21 21:52
    Andre' said...
    but I doubt anyone has even taken advantage yet of the 128K
    SpaceWar does! I've got 12K of title screens and bout 60K of music data (so far) in the region above 32K. The next SpaceWar release will require HAM to install, and the upcoming HDMF release will make it a piece of cake for anybody to shove music data into the upper 96K and play it back from EEPROM on the fly. Thanks...for all the memory.... [noparse]:)[/noparse]
  • Bob the Builder on a C64Bob the Builder on a C64 Posts: 112
    edited 2007-05-21 21:53
    Sorry about the random question, thank you though Andre!
  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2007-05-21 22:02
    BBC64--Did I answer your question though? I wasn't sure what you were asking? Anyway, if I did -- good [noparse]:)[/noparse] And epmoyer, I didn't know that, but of course, we haven't seen this new version yet, since the 1st one just downloaded with the Prop tool, when will the latest one be ready to try?

    Andre'
  • epmoyerepmoyer Posts: 314
    edited 2007-05-21 22:48
    Hmm, its probably 2 weeks out. I've been working on making HDMF a quality release with good tools and documentation so that people can incorporate it into their own projects. HDMF will release some time this week, and will include an HDMF EEPROM playback demo which will require HAM (and which will jam pack the 96K with song assets just to show off [noparse]:)[/noparse]. After that I'll go back and finish the music for the next SpaceWar! release along with starting work on folding HSS support into HDMF.
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2007-05-21 23:50
    I'm thinking about tying one of these to a prop board. Can you tell me what pins you are using. (hopefully none of the usb lines) and also where/part# I can get that socket?

    Thanks
    Oldbitcollector

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  • AndreLAndreL Posts: 1,004
    edited 2007-05-22 06:36
    I just posted the link to the product page, at the bottom are download links for the user manual that explains everything.

    Andre'
  • potatoheadpotatohead Posts: 10,254
    edited 2007-05-23 17:57
    Add me to the list, I'll pick one up next month.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2007-05-24 07:00
    I just ordered one and some more books.

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