Recent content by dankcomputing

The freeware versions of 5.2 and 5.1 appear to be hosted here. Should probably mirror them as they weren't easy to find. The non-freeware 5.2 remains elusive.

It does make it much less likely that someone's messed with the configuration. If it was messed with and not reset, I probably would be getting a local console and not the default serial console. It does appear that there's no extra EEPROM or whatever storing the OpenFirmware settings and that...

OK that makes sense. I'm just wondering if something in there's been messed with as I can't get any of the 4 USB cards I have on hand to work no matter what drivers I install. The CPU also still shows as 133 mhz in System Profiler even though it should be 150. Are OpenFirmware settings saved in...

This is apparently one of the first systems to have it. Is it possible that it only works over TTY?

I get a black screen of nothing if I try. The system boots and runs normally (well, I am chasing another problem with getting USB cards working but I don't know if this is connected). I have mashed the CUDA button plenty of times, reset PRAM, PRAM battery is working. The machine apparently...

Nobody's sourced any I don't think, but they crumble so badly and so often that there's gotta be a bunch of whole analog boards for them floating around.

People have been looking high and low for the original VIC-20 switch for decades and it seems fruitless now. I've never even seen it crop up in other equipment. I always liked the CR better, that use of a 120V shaver cord for a 9V connection has always irked me. Did that surplus site indicate a...

With the VIC-20 you can get new PCBs for a VIC-20CR motherboard, move all the chips over, and then 3d print a new side plate, upgrading around the power switch problem (VIC-20CR uses the same power switch and power supply as the C64).

Amiga 060 accelerators typically have a tiny ROM that patches things enough for Kickstart to work. Some of the newer designs skip this and need a patched/post-3.1 version of Kickstart.

Amiga PiStorm 32 doesn't have fully working MMU BTW. Neither does the Vampire. The devs just can't be botha'd. Kinda makes it a non-starter for MacOS. I have some experience with 060 on Atari and that's mostly fine since the Falcon breaks so much ST software anyway. I know of people trying to...

It should be possible to create a more accurate version of the button just by integrating the button piece from a 8100/800/etc style bezel model. Also, would it be possible to do a model for the tray-loading CD drives? Originals are hard to come by,

R129 and R130 are swapped on the diagram. Pulling R129 got me a Machine ID of 63 - the gestalt ID of the “unreleased 33 mhz WLCD derivative”. Here’s hoping it’ll be stable.

Pulling R137 just makes it think it's a Quadra 610 (Gestalt 53), changing R130 to1.2K doesn't make any kind of difference. Ideally I'd want to change this machine's Gestalt ID to 63 in order to get the serial clock correct, but I don't know what resistors to pull/add for that.

There's a 300 ohm resistor already at R130. Do I leave that alone or change it for the 1.2K?