Recent content by Macobyte

I believe it’s good and standard practice to do so. When I had my SE/30 completely cleaned and recapped that service included the floppy drive. Be sure to replace the cheese gear when you’re in there too.

Thanks everyone for your replies! This is all good to know. We’re spoiled with so many drive emulation options for our old computers.

You don’t list SCSI2SD as an option here. Are they all discontinued? I have a v5.2 in my SE/30 and I like it fine although it was cumbersome to set up and lacked some of the emulator-portable disk image features of BlueSCSI at the time which came out shortly after I bought it. Perhaps for these...

I can’t speak for a CRT shock but when I was a kid and didn’t know what I was doing I took apart a disposable film camera and while messing with it I charged the flash capacitor and then touched the circuit. That was probably twenty-five years ago and I still remember the feeling of it running...

This was Will’s latest guess too and we were exploring it when we had to call it a night; perhaps today I’ll have some time to dig deeper… That ROM worked fine with the same board in his SE so I know it’s not defective. I supposed contact could be the culprit however the only change other than...

Correct; please see my latest reply to a similar comment in the thread. Is there anything else which can cause this bus error, something hardware-related to do with either the drives or power supply? Considering the error occurs with that ROM with different boards, sets of RAM, and boot drives.

I should have worded the bit about also trying the Quantum Fireball with a little more detail… It has an unpatched copy of 7.5.5 and booting off of that drive still causes a bus error with the stock ROM installed. So I don’t think it’s related to the System Folder.

Forgot to mention: If I hold down shift and reboot with extensions off as the bus error message suggests, I get the same bus error message again, so it’s not an extensions issue.

Here’s a mystery I’m trying to figure out. I have an SE/30 with a stock logic board with a BMOW ROMinator II and 128MB of RAM. Also in this machine is a 50MHz DiiMO and a MacCon Ethernet card, and it all works perfectly. I had a spare SE/30 logic board with trace damage which I sent to Will of...

I got my DiiMO off of Buyee last year… They’re much easier to find there but expect to pay around $500. I can confirm the DiiMO works perfectly with a BMOW ROMinator II.

I would be interested in hearing more about your use of modern ATX PSUs. Have you done this in an SE/30 where you did NOT hack apart an original PSU to use its enclosure?

I actually have a spare RasterOps ColorBoard 264 already and have considered this approach. When I swap it into my existing SE/30 I find the draw speeds for windows to be distractingly slow, although perhaps with only the color display performance would improve a little. I also find the 1-bit...

I have a spare SE/30 case and (SE/30 Reloaded) logic board. I had a thought about what to do with these but wanted to ask the gallery if it was even possible first. Would it be possible to create a fully-working SE/30 using only the following additional components? 1.) Original SE/30 internal...

I’m very curious about the PDS cards you have in your SE/30 and how you have them arranged. I own a few cards and can identify a bunch fairly easily, but I don’t recognize any you have except for Bolle’s new grayscale card. It looks like you have at least one right-angle adapter perhaps. Would...

Ah, you must have bought the other one… that one was more expensive than the one I got but mine was untested and yours was shown working in the auction, so I thought the risk was worth saving a few bucks. Congrats! It’s a game-changer and you can always flip the TwinSpark and PowerCache to...