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KISS update 2: taking a cue from the ugly Compact Mac interface sans Killy Klip here. Looks possible to leave the Classic's PLCC CPU in place. Soldering .5 inch pitch headers all around simplifies things considerably. Baseline Performer design would be revamped slightly. Only a .5 inch SIP...

KISS update: looks like ringing the Classic's 68000 pads with RA .5 inch pitch headers or sockets for them simplifies a rework of the baseline Performer design. Just rework the standard thruhole/unobtanium socket interface to support the "ringed" .5 inch header/socket interface within its...

Answered one of my questions, silly of me to wonder about it: So development of a DIP adapter board will be required. Breaking the PLCC pads out with a castellated(?) SMT PCB looks the ticket? 1 - might running the 68000 lines to interface with the SE PDS suffice or will be offsetting to SMT...

Haven't got a Macintosh Classic, but the unavailable socket for its 68000 has been bothering me no end since I kicked off the Performer clone project @Bolle pulled off when I shipped my Performer to him. May be a bit ugly, but I think we might be able to pull off this bodge? 1 - methinks the...

If moving the SCSI address block, is it possible to patch the ROM and hijack the calls to support a Slow/Wide SCSI Bus? Don't recall when or where, but someone suggested that Slow/Wide would accomplish the same thing as Fast/Narrow ATTO Silicon Express II NuBus Card I was looking into cloning...

Indeed, RCPII/SI may be a good candidate? Dunno about acceleration, but does that even have anything to do with gaming? From what I've read, acceleration has mostly to do with things like scrolling the desktop in Illustrator et al, basic QuickDraw routines the wouldn't be employed in gaming I'd...

That almost certainly explains the connector on daughtercard setup. DE-9 card would be swapped out for Coaxial connector card for displays having that input, no?

Thanks for clarification, figured as much when first taking a look at that card. 1024x768@8bit was about perfect for spreadsheet, CAD and Illustration programs. GS TPD card and second card for 24bit on a small display was the go to for DTP in the day. Page layout DTP started out on 1bit B&W FPD...

Next year is the 40th Anniversary of the Plus. Maybe someone can get in touch with the Woz? He might be up for releasing IWM for that milestone and new build project in the ITXPlus? He might even create/recreate a new version for old times sake/posterity? Gotta love a guy with the stones to go...

How much VRAM(?) is on the card? Enough to support 214bit color? @Bolle, I'd go in the other direction. LEM is more likely to be wrong on the specs for this card than for it to have been 24bit capable in that era.

I'd imagine it's identical to the OEM unit. Only change would be to the leave the bottom section solid as opposed to articulated. It's be so much easier to have the opening laser cut out of your OEM bezel . You'd need to remove the cam from the read of the door in order to snug the drive up...

I've been looking into this one for Radius cards recently. https://texelec.com/product/rgbtohdmi-ttl/ Could be simplified tremendously given single bit images on the Compacts? Getting rotation set up for the Portrait Cards is at the top of my list. I think @max1zzz is using the original, analog...

Performer/SE build has no need for direct connection to the 68000, the PDS slot itself is a direct connection to the CPU. SE PDS includes the C16M reference clock that became a standard feature of later PDS implementations. That would be why the clock doubling GAL at U7 is not required for the...

Thanks much for all the input, gang, very helpful. One more in the works: @max1zzz is reshaping ITXPlus. Obligatory Tangent Time: One day I'll get around to building the SE/30 Remix with my dead board, but not a purist about these things whatsoever. I'm a huge fan of @max1zzz reshaping of...

Someone has just gotta model this thing for printing! Adding it onto the back and using a PCB adapter offsetting its neck board gubbins down and to the left is the only possible way to fit my 10" Color CRT "into" an "unmodified" Classic Mac case . . . sort of. 😜

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/working-a-collection-of-68k-thru-g4-macs-into-a-current-tech-2k-1440p-qhd-desktop-environmet-for-classic-os-playtime.37805/ https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/apple-portrait-display-macintosh-se.47675/

Many thanks to @Maurice who disappeared a few years back: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/help-with-portrait-full-page-displays.33377/

Excellent, just starting to work on that setup! Should have that board here in a couple of days, but no cable. Can you buzz the connections from 9pin header on the PCB to the DE-9F positions on the backplane plate for me? Looks like there are only three wires implemented? If so I think that'd...

Any links to any info at all on these cards/displays would be appreciated Eventually looking to clone FPD and TPD cards eventually, but looking at nailing down output/scaling solutions first. Had some luck with TPD/Extron Scaler in the past...

@max1zzz what's all that cable crud at top right of case? Obligatory Tangent: That setup you have would make a great riff on the OUTBOUND 125 for mains power limited Portable Mac playtime. VGA LDC Controller/Panel combo keeps it thin. Front bezel overlaps letterboxing bars. Move KBD to...