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    PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

    Yes 100%, go with BlueSCSI v2 if you can. Makes doing stuff like this just so much easier. Then on macintoshgarden.org, you can easily get all the install media up through OS 9.2.2.
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    PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

    Yep one step at a time. Up to 9.1. Now moving on to 9.2.2. For no particular reason but the fun of it :)
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    PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

    Yes and Yes to all this @croissantking! Here it is now with 9.0.4. Taking baby steps.
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    PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

    I am interested in pushing this to 9.0.4 next. But can certainly say it is noticeably slow with 8.6, which isn't a surprise when considering the slow bus speeds. I think maybe what I want to see is if it would be possible to watch a YouTube video somehow on a Blackbird. I haven't actually done...
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    PowerBook 540c - Did a thing (OS 8.6)

    Although I like to stay true to my 68K roots, I recently acquired a PB 540c with the Apple 603e 100MHz upgrade card. So decided to take this up to OS 8.6, because why not? :)
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    Romin-ator II woes in a Macintosh IIfx

    Almost spit up my Diet Coke reading this comment @shirsch!!! But seriously though, there are several things I am waiting to buy from Jurassic Computing. Now I need to add this shim to my list.
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    Fan airflow rating Quadra 700 PSU

    Jumping on this old thread, I think I am going to get the NF-A8 PWM for my Quadra 700 power supply. I finally got to see a Noctua fan up close in an LCIII that I bought from @jmacz. I am in love with that fan! So it looks like the NF-A8 PWM has a 4-pin connector. Did you all just splice up the...
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    Rominator v1 for MacPlus & Flash Tool v1.6

    Just took the poor man's approach. I modified the highlighted manufacturerId (C2C2) and deviceId (A4A4) in the CODE2 resource of the Flash Tool with the appropriate values for my ICs. Worked like a charm. (Proceed with caution however, make sure you enter the right values, understand the type of...
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    Rominator v1 for MacPlus & Flash Tool v1.6

    Decided to play with this a bit last night. Very simple issue, the UnlockFlash(9090) command simply tells the ICs to expose their manufacturer ID and device ID at address 0000 and 0001. I was getting really stuck on the ROM having BBBB at these addresses. So basically just need to recompile...
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    Macintosh 68060 Redux

    Very well done!! I can only marvel at this reverse engineering :)
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    Testers Needed: Modified ROM for LC475/Q605

    To help keep myself organized, I put together a template to use for several iterations of testing different ROMs and SIMMs on my Q650. Attached are my notes, and admittedly my handwriting is AWFUL! But, I think this testing confirmed to me at least that the memory is being sized correctly...
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    Schrockwell's S3/30 Reloaded build

    @schrockwell if you get to the point of selling any completed board builds, I think you'll have some buyers! I'd like to get in line :)
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    Rominator I in a MacPlus, Boot Sound Abrupt Cutoff at the end of Chime

    Yes same with mine. Initial guess is it has to do with the amount of space in the ROM for the updated chime. A while ago I tried replacing the sound bytes, but ran into some issues. I'll need to revisit that again soon.
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    Testers Needed: Modified ROM for LC475/Q605

    Here is probably a better way to visualize what I am trying to say. I'll do some more testing tonight. If this is how it works, then technically I suppose a single installed double-sided SIMM would never be interleaved (ie, banks 2 and 4 populated). So this would be a good way to test this theory.
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    Testers Needed: Modified ROM for LC475/Q605

    @cy384 I'm still digging into this. I wanted to bounce this off of you, so I quoted your above post here. This is from when you booted with 3x 128MB SIMMs. I am wondering if the banks are setup like this in the Q650? So take just one 128MB SIMM.... I see from the wombat tool that it shows the...
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