2. Yes. Two cables need to be soldered to the Interrupt line (same as ACSI and FDD) and /DSACK1. Otherwise IDE won't work.
But I will write a documentation with photos where to solder the two cables to the mainboard. I'd say it's pretty easy.
3. Yes.
4. Depends. Have a look at the DRAM ICs. In general: all SIMMs that work with a MagnumTT will work with caTTerror V.1:
http://dev-docs.atariforge.org/files/Ma ... ish%29.pdf table on the left hand side.
When the project is in its final stage then I will publish a list of DRAMs I tested myself successfully. 4MB/8MB SIMMs seem to be
non-critical. I used these with either 8 or 16 ICs and 2 or 4 ICs respectively without a problem. Access time is non-critical either.
TT's 16MHz bus is pretty slow. Even 100ns should work - if you can get such slow PS/2 SIMMs anywhere.
5. Yes. You can either buy an already patched TOS 3.06 (US/UK/GER/FR) in my shop or you can apply the patch yourself and
program/burn the EPROMs yourself.
The patches are textfiles based on the syntax of Markus Heiden's incredible TOSPatch program:
http://download.markusheiden.de/atari/tp306v20.lzh
But I have to check the patches for US/UK/FR TOS before publishing them.
Four patched 3.06 EPROMs will be available for 12EUR.
6. Shipping: somewhere in the 10-15EUR range. Board cost: somewhere between 80-120EUR.
7. When it's done
Honestly: I haven't put any progress in the project lately. It's summer and OTOH noone seemed to be interested in the project at all.
As I wrote earlier in this thread: I'm not gonna spend hundreds of Euros on 4-layer PCBs if just one, two people show interest.
It's easier to burn the banknotes immediately.
