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x86 card revival thread

taddy

Active member
Is it working? I couldn't get my AM586 working in my 630.
The standard configuration of 6100+Houdini II works,
but I have never been able to get it to work with the Cyrix 5x86 100GP configuration.
So I don't think it will work.

However, even if it is not working, the panel is getting very hot,
so there is still a possibility that it can work if the cooling is strengthened.

Does it work with the DX4-100Mhz-ODP configuration?
If it doesn't work, I'll revert to standard.
 

micheledipaola

Well-known member
Hi everybody, I am kind of crossposting this from another thread, so sorry if I am breaking some rule - I got one of the excellent Mac286 replica cards made by @max1zzz and I am trying to figure out how to make it work. Max was so kind to add in the package the Mac software disks and even the 5.25" DOS floppies, which I can use connecting the Apple PC 5.25 drive to the card(s).

I installed the cards in my Mac IIfx, turned off 32bit addressing, configured the control panel extension for managing the serial interfaces as "compatible" and started the Mac286 v. 3.02 program. There I set external floppy to PC drive, and D: root directory (this is the shared dir between System 7 and DOS) to a folder that contains up-to-date DOS commands, coming with the program.

Everything seems fine, I can boot dos from the floppy, then I run FDISK and partition the virtual C: drive (which is a file on my Mac hd), then I have to remember to activate the partition :D (damn DOS...) , then I format C:, copy DOS files from floppy 1 and 2... and then when I boot, the autoexec run commands DSTEP1 - 2 - 3 (which should activate the shared dir) ... and then it hangs there. Any chance to solve this, or find a manual anywhere for the card (it's two days of googling and I can't find anything)? what would be your hints? also @max1zzz if you shared your C: drive file online somewhere, could you please point it out to me / us here?

Thanks all in advance!
 

micheledipaola

Well-known member
Answering to myself but it might be useful for other users:

on Mac Garden there are images of the MS-DOS C: drive file (10 or 20 megs) already set up, so that solved the drive issue -
but what really did the trick was using System 6 (6.07 to be precise, the last localized version AFAIK) because the card seems to work only every now and then under System 7 even with 32bit mode off and serial ports on compatible mode.

Now let's install GEM and / or Win 2.03 :D
 
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