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SuperSVGA
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Macintosh Portable M5120 doesn't want to boot
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It sounds like unstable power especially if it's inconsistent in how far it starts up. Are you able to check the +5V rail with a multimeter?
May 28, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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You would have to completely move them out of their current space from the code side in order to have contiguous RAM. This does...
May 25, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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Depends on how much RAM you want to add. What you would want to do is change where the CPU thinks the memory locations are (i.e. edit...
May 23, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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Without separating the CPU from the computer in order to rewrite addresses, you would have to move other devices on the bus to different...
May 22, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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It doesn't take much, the basic process is disabling the built-in ROM with the switch/jumper on the board, putting the ROM on a PDS...
May 22, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Cloning the IWM (sort of)
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The Disk ][ card did not have any PALs, it was all general logic and two PROMs. I fit it all into a single ATF1504 at one point...
May 22, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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Unfortunately the 68000 only had 24-bits of address lines connected. To address additional memory you would need to implement some sort...
May 22, 2025
SuperSVGA
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The "most powerful" 68000-only Mac?
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The Portable tops out at 9MB (not sure about the PB100) but I moved the ROM higher into the memory space to make space for 15MB of RAM.
May 21, 2025
SuperSVGA
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One thing I was thinking about lately, who has the most powerful/fastest/most capable 68000 Mac out there? I’m only counting the...
May 21, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Macintosh IIcx slow chimes of death; diagnostic return code 0000FFFF0001.
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It's through the serial testing interface that's available in pretty much every single Macintosh with a serial port since the SE. The...
May 18, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Macintosh IIcx slow chimes of death; diagnostic return code 0000FFFF0001.
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Since it's returning 2 that means it's the second ROM (I think that would be MH, I can't remember) that failed checksum and the others...
May 17, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Macintosh IIcx slow chimes of death; diagnostic return code 0000FFFF0001.
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If switching to another known good ROM set doesn't work then it's probably an addressing issue. You're clearly getting far enough into...
May 17, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Cloning the IWM (sort of)
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The DIP-28 could definitely fit everything you need in roughly the same footprint. Here's a rapidly put together render: The PLCC-44...
May 16, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Cloning the IWM (sort of)
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If you're not intending to connect a physical disk drive you could probably just leave the programmable logic out and just use the...
May 16, 2025
SuperSVGA
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Macintosh Portable 5126 Help!
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It should be going between the two capacitor legs, it's not connected to the capacitor. That's just one of the serial port lines so it...
May 10, 2025
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