I hate flea markets, unlike my children and their mother. But this morning I was well advised to go with them.
I found this nice PowerBook 180c for 30€. Even if it's dead, it would still be a bargain.
Comes from a battery-bombed Quadra 610.
I was thinking that by cutting off all the pins and hoping that the rust could be removed, the chip could be modded into some kind of BGA-ish that could be placed on a custom adapter PCB which would fit into a 68040 socket.
A lot of effort for a less than...
Well, it was that simple. With the aforementioned modification to the System file, the Gestalt ID returned by the machine is ‘99’, which corresponds to the LC 580. And the Soft475 extension doesn't accept this, quite logically.
However, it is possible to work around the issue via Wish-I-Were by...
For some unknown reason, the Soft475 extension doesn't work on my CC Mystic. It is crossed out in red during start-up, as if it didn't recognize the machine. The control strip doesn't work either.
My Mystic doesn't have the VGA mod and boots with patched systems (gestalt 99 edited from 21 to 10...