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Offline Chrispy5486Topic starter

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Using an amiga for DCC control of model railways
« on: January 30, 2026, 06:26:45 PM »
Has anybody used an amiga for dcc control? If so, how did you do it? Software & hardware?
 

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Re: Using an amiga for DCC control of model railways
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2026, 07:57:08 PM »
Hi Crispy,

Have not done anything with that on the Amiga. But used a Esp32 to operate a train. You should use ASM for sending data to the serialport of the amiga. Then use a driver (LMD18200T) circuit to power the track. You can then superponate the signal to the "always powered on track". Look into the protocol to understand how the packets are build so the train can use that. First there is a preamble with some zero's followed by the train ID. This just all binary like the rest of the commands, direction, lights on/off and sound.

So your first step would be how to create a packet to operate the train. Be sure to get the timings right or your train might start to function irratic.

Cheers Henk

If i got time i will look into it because it is nice to use amiga for something like that.
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