I searched far and wide for information on the Interware Booster CV 40 for the Mac IIci with the SE/30. I wasn't able to find much.
I bought one from Japan and tested it with a Twinspark adapter. I can confirm that it does not work on SE/30.
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it probably would, but I'd recommend instead using a iisi rom or a rominator iiI don’t have the skill set to reverse engineer the ROM.
I’m curious whether it might work with a IIci rom in an SE/30?
the rominator ii by @bigmessowires is also 32-bit clean, as it was designed originally with the iici and iisi in mind, but will fit and work in a iix, iicx, and SE/30yeahhh i think you'd need a 32 bit clean ROM. IIci and IIsi are 32 bit clean, whereas the SE/30 is not along with the macintosh IIx and IIcx it was designed from. either way it may be routed differently so the card may not work regardless of your ROM on an SE/30.
I don't think the bus speed is an issue, because this card allegedly works in the IIci, IIvi, and IIvx.
I don't have a IIci ROM on hand. Any way I could buy one?
Hey there, I just found the CL 40-40 Booster that goes in the Color Classic II. It is possible to plug this into the Bolle riser card in an SE30? Or will that cause damage to the SE30 PDS system?Just to be clear, the Rominator is an IIsi ROM image with some QoL modifications. It doesn't have any additional compatibility over the base image. It may happen to work in other machines, but that will be where the original IIsi ROM would also work. So it should be discarded for the sake of this discussion.
There's a few likely scenarios. It's hard to tell which without intimate debugging, though.
For the cards that boot straight into the 040 (CPU is not switchable), then there's a card ROM used to extend the stock ROM (which wouldn't know what to do when presented with a 68040). In some cases the approach taken is patching over parts the stock ROM, replacing code, so the "actual ROM" is a patchwork combination of data on the card and data on the romsimm. In this case when used with an unexpected ROM SIMM, the result is dog food and nothing will work.
Or, that ROM on the card may be trying to "gracefully" extend the stock ROM rather than outright patching it, which can be more tolerant to different ROM SIMMs, but the SE/30 ROM is ancient.
Or neither of those are the immediate issue, but perhaps the additional code on the card is unprepared to deal with the older hardware - this is what goes wrong with the Turbo 601, for example.
And finally, as @alectrona2988 said there could be a gross hardware incompatibility such as not expecting to work with the slower bus clock.
It'd certainly be worth trying an IIci ROM image, though. I just verified it will boot a SE/30.
Hey there, I just found the CL 40-40 Booster that goes in the Color Classic II. It is possible to plug this into the Bolle riser card in an SE30? Or will that cause damage to the SE30 PDS system?
No.Just circling back to this, will the Turbo 601 card work with Bolle’s riser card in a IIsi?