Creating the PCB

After drawing the schematic and switching to the PCB design, the first thing I did was to arrange all components in a similar way as on the original board. Since I did follow the slightly modified version of the schematic with different memory chips, I had to make some changes, but overall the look is similar.

Original board layout, by Grant Searle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Layout, and ratsnest lines

 

 

And so, after more than a year, (where I decided multiple times that it was just to hard and almost gave up), it is finally completely routed:

And since KiCad has a 3D display tool, I can now compare my version to the original: