Recent content by modulusshift

It should be quite possible to do a variation with digital video out, incl. color support. At a bare minimum we could probably integrate Toby, the Macintosh II's video card, for 8-bit 640x480, because that card is about as simple as possible and very well documented in the Designing Cards and...

Hey, this is a different take on a project I was considering taking on! My main focus was to output color to a modern external display rather than provide grayscale to the internal one, but this still sounds very interesting, and I definitely don't have any engineering experience in my project...

Silverlining included a First Aid program that actually worked for me, unlike the one on my System 6 disk. (Is that locked to Apple hard drives again?) Verify and repair and it was good. I ran Silverlining’s short tests to see if anything else would go wrong and they didn’t. So, yay...

It booted! It seems to be working, except: all the text is backwards. But it all starts in the right place, so most of the text just gets clipped immediately. Well, I guess I’m about to run Silverlinings so wish me luck. 

So I booted up my SE/30 I've left alone for a bit. I put in a younger (ca. 1995) hard drive I had laying around last time I messed with it, which I used LaCie Silverlining v5.7 to initialize and install a disk driver for. Everything was working fine as of then, excepting quiet audio and display...

@balrog These are beautiful, I almost forgot you mentioned you had them laying around somewhere! Thank you very much for your contribution.

I kinda figured that any card that'd come close to modern resolutions would need acceleration. I was hoping that this discussion would decide on 030 PDS because, selfishly, I've got an SE/30 myself, and also, the increased bandwidth might make higher resolutions more possible. But honestly, the...

So, let me get this straight: in practice, a video card for one of these Macs is, from the Mac's perspective, a RAM expansion that includes one or more frame buffers, and then components that read those buffers and sends them to a display? And that expansion attaches to the rest of the system...

Wow, that's an amazing document you've got there, Bolle. I'm really starting to develop an appreciation for vintageapple.org that I wasn't expecting, they do some amazing work collecting and digitizing all of that. Obviously this isn't going to be a very inexpensive project if I do decide to do...

Are you offering to sell it? Give me a price and I'll consider it, for sure. I'm just across the rockies from you so shipping should be reasonable too.

Oh man, that would have been cool. That's a good thing to keep an eye out for just in case, thanks.

What's the cheapest way to get color video out of an SE/30? Even 256 colors at 512x384 would be perfectly fine. I find that my interests in this computer are more often limited by lack of color than lack of hardware on this. And I could just pull out my Performa 630CD for that, but it takes up...

That label thing is a kind of funny piece of trivia. And you all were right, as soon as the TE jumper was set up, everything ran perfectly. Wow, this machine boots fast with a hard drive.

Okay, that's good to know. I've managed to track down the jumper guide for this drive and I'll see how it's configured later today. Edit: And thanks to SE30_Neal for getting this discussion started. I will try the copy of Silverlining I've got lying around or Lido, if the termination isn't the...

Okay, good to know! I know that the external casing it was in before could select the SCSI ID, and a trace of Silverlining from the last Mac to use this drive showed that it was recognized as 0 when installed internally, so I just assumed it was automatic. What really confuses me is that the...