Recent content by ZaneKaminski

The other day I was itching to make the right angle PDS adapters for my 6100 and 610 but I wasn't sure of the exact dimensions. There seem to be several types and I dunno which dimensions (in terms of where to position the connector on the right angle board) are applicable to which adapters...

This guy sells one: https://www.tinkerboy.xyz/product/tinkerboy-usb-mouse-to-mac-converter-adapter-for-macintosh-with-db9-mouse-port/ Not too expensive and the case design is quite professional! Nobody seems to be talking about it; the designer posted on AppleFritter several times, but last I...

It’s complicated...I puzzled it out a bit more. The LC II has no less than four signals called reset. Two “power-on reset” signals are generated by U12, which is an MC34064 “undervoltage detection chip.” U12’s function is to pulse those reset signals when the power is turned on or recovers from...

Wow! I did not know this. I thought it would not be possible to dump it from the Mac. Maybe the Egret is the same as one of these 6805 MCUs, and if so, we could burn another: http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/6805/Single_Chip_Microcontrollers.pdf The Egret has 28 pins and evidently...

The system runs when reset is high (above 2.0 V) and doesn't run when reset is low (below 0.8 V). When the computer powers on, reset should be low, but then it should go high and that in turn causes the processor to work, startup chime, etc. So if it's always low or going back and forth, the...

Looking at the schematic briefly, it seems that U10 6805 microcontroller drives the system reset low, since the physical reset button on the LC II is hooked up to the 6805's reset input. I would check if the system reset (available on the PDS slot) is ever going high with a multimeter or...

Good news! The 8MB SIMM works! Thanks to all of the testers for their diligent work on the 2 MB SIMM! @JDW uncovered a significant defect in the 2 MB SIMM which is possibly the reason it didn’t work in his SE/30. Fortunately the 8 MB SIMM doesn’t have this issue, so hopefully that will fix...

Thanks! What I mean is a little different than what you’re saying though. I’m talking about when an application has a DMA disk card read into an a buffer owned by the app. This buffer will often be in expansion RAM. So for a read operation that moves a disk block from the card into an...

Oops, didn't see the posts on page 4 earlier when I replied... Ooh, I will look into MindExpander, including just personally. Hm yes, I would like to, but BareBones still exists so I will have to ask them. Hopefully they agree. Unfortunately it's still ~600 kB, which is a lot heavier than...

Hi everyone, My friend Garrett Fellers and I design, manufacture, and sell vintage hardware through his Garrett's Workshop brand. One of our products that's been out for a while is our GW4201-series "RAM2GS" RAM expansion card for Apple IIgs. (eBay...

Sorry for my absence--please check your PMs. Yes, it should have been programmed when sent to you, but a mixup could have happened. I am not sure if the programmer can program my ROM SIMM, but it can certainly read it out (if indeed it originally supported that feature). The ROM is here, named...

The memory manager only moves memory when you make a call to allocate a pointer or handle, or when you call a (toolbox) routine which does the same. Memory never gets moved at interrupt time, so it’s not like you can be going through the code and all of a sudden the memory you were using has...

Yes, but I think it's better to have 6.0.8 on the 2MB and 7/7.1 on the 8MB. The RAM disk (which of course you don't have to use) requires 7.5MB of RAM on the 8MB SIMM but only 1.5MB on the 2MB, so it's sort of fitting that the 6.0.8 version has a smaller RAM requirement to use the RAM disk. Ooh...

Yes, I believe so, but you have to break it up into its own function like so: asm void foo() { ... }

For the record, CodeWarrior 6 works quite well on my unaccelerated SE/30, and I recently used it to develop the control panel for my ROM disk. My impression is that CodeWarrior is basically a THINK C clone but the compiler is a bit more modern. Only issue was that I had to hook up a SCSI CD-ROM...