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Building the circuit on a breadboard externally
Using 5 NAND Gates to prove that there is a hardware problem was very useful, but for a production run using a single 2-to-4 Line Decoder chip to replace them is the next step.
This circuit could now be bread-boarded and tested outside the Z88 card case.
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The four signal and power lines can be seen connecting the card to the breadboard.
Results
The Games play without crashing.
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The decoder chip above works. It replaces 1/4 of the 74139 for the Z88 design.
For the full version, adding 2 OR, dual logic gates to the outputs enables the /CE signal to the design.