croissantking
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Absolutely, I’d like to experiment with populating the soft power circuit if I can find a reference for it - maybe an early iMac logic board.I think the main thing that makes this project intriguing are the possibilities for a tighter integration than is possible or practical with a regular PCI card (the ability to power the machine on using the power key on the early Apple USB keyboards and being able to boot from a USB disk being two things that come to mind).
I’d dismissed booting from USB as impossible since not even early iMacs or B/W G3s/Yikes! G4s can do this.
I didn’t know there was a difference in terms of the sound chip. Is the Screamer the ‘Crystal’ chip you can see on most personality cards? What benefit does the improved chip have?I kind of want one, if only for the supposedly improved sound chip they use (Burgundy instead of Screamer). I seem to recall that the Burgundy sound chip was subsequently used in a later model of something, an early iPod, maybe? Or maybe it was something else known as Burgundy? Perhaps this notion is a fabrication of my tired mind?