Recent content by cbmeeks

My story is worse than that. I had a perfectly working Quadra 700 and when I moved in with my GF (this was 20 years ago), it somehow got lost. I think it was accidentally tossed in the "garbage pile" and my dad hauled it off to the dump. Oh...and I only paid $20 for it.

The Mac IIsi I have came with a network card. What I'm trying to do is get it to either work with my DHCP router, or at least let me configure the network address. The only reference I can find is this page: http://www.simonstl.com/projects/tcpip/mac/mactcp.html Unfortunately, when I follow...

Thanks for the replies. The first computer I will try and get going with this is my Mac IIsi. Any tips for that computer? Thanks

I have several Macs ranging from Mac 512K to Mac IIvx. Only a few of them have working SCSI drives and I have no actual disks. What I would like to do is install my Blue SCSI in them (I may build several if this works out well). So I'm looking for a place to download various systems, apps...

Don’t take this as advice, but I have taken old PSU’s from PC’s (AT and ATX) and have literally hosed them with the water hose. The VERY dirty ones. I did the same thing with an old Mac PSU too. Just made sure they were bone dry before testing them. It helps that summers are brutal here and...

Sega should have done what Atari did and just add up all the bits.  The 68K with it's 32-bit registers plus the 16-bit address bus of the Z80.  So the Genesis is a 48-bit system.   LMAO. At least they had Blast Processing.

Yeah, I think the 68000 and Z80's (for sound) are some of the most popular arcade processors from the 80's/90's.

Oh yeah, huge fan of the Parallax forums. Yeah, I've heard of the MiSTer project.  I don't want to use FPGA for the CPU.  At least not at first.  I will be using FPGA (and/or CPLD) for glue and video but not the CPU. Unfortunately, the project is on temporary hold as we just bought a new...

I haven't decided if the CPU and framebuffer will share RAM.  My initial thought is that they would.  I don't really want to get into anything like cycle stealing/stretching or anything like that.  My intent is to upgrade this machine to '020/030 one day and that method (like the original Mac)...

Small update... This weekend was unproductive.  I had FOUR large deployments (for my real job) that took up most of my weekend. I did manage to solder the small QFP-64 68SEC000 to a breakout board.  This breakout board will next get 64 wire-wrap pins soldered to it so that I can use it. Next...

Thanks everyone for the interest.  I don't have a blog yet.  But I really should start one.  I really like the format that BMOW does with his projects.  I might follow something similar. I'll either post my progress here (if no one objects) or just post a link to my eventual blog. In the...

I'm sorry if I am way OT here. Last year, I designed a 65C02 computer and had some boards made.  It worked very well and I was very happy. My next move was to design his 16-bit big brother using a 65C816.  Seemed like a logical choice (still is, really). However, there was something pulling...

Holy crap...I forgot I have one of those Apple II 3.5" drives!  I got it with my IIgs years ago.  So, is it easier to transfer disk images over to it than 400K disks? Your blog is looking good.  Do you plan on doing any posts about how to transfer images over to those disks?  My primary PC is a...

Yeah, I may be interested.  :-) I will send you a PM. Thanks!

I've tried 15 times to upload more pics but all I get is an error message.  Even pictures much smaller than the ones that worked.  Not sure what that's about. https://www.dropbox.com/s/72u5g2aa1b64lab/Photo Dec 08%2C 2 14 01 PM.jpg?dl=0