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Yes. When I recapped my LC III's logic board, I recapped it with Vishay Sprague capacitors, a really reputable brand, and they're still holding up today

yes, the iconic 7 ball

always recap power supplies on compacts and LCs

just use a period correct USB capture card

Agreed, it is my dream Macintosh

avoid cheap chinese brands. When I recapped my LC III, I used all tantalum capacitors for the logic board by Vishay Sprague, but electrolytics should work fine too. Also, don't forget to recap the power supply, use only electrolytics for the power supply. I had to have mine finished and fixed by...

I have too, cannot recommend him enough as he saved my LC III from a botched recapping job by yours truly and he does amazing recaps and repairs

Ah

That make sense

maybe this project could help pave the way in figuring out how the two halves of the TeraDrive interact?

rerouting the CPU calls to an external CPU

but where's the fun in that?

Well, one way I could make it useful is by using the Macintosh side as a development environment for Genesis games, you write the code on the mac side, and put it on a small SCSI disk that the FPGA makes readable to the genesis side

well, the 68000 and 010 have bus request lines, one where a peripheral can request the bus, and one where the 68000 or 010 responds "sure, I'm not doing anything", the FPGA will assert the bus request line, and wait for the 68010 to grant access, where it swaps the entire bus underneath the...

Not exactly, the Macintosh needs more than 5V, especially if one uses an external floppy drive, but any changes that can turn a Genesis into a Macintosh are welcome

people have seen that a Macintosh is very marginally sped up with a 68010, but I think it would make up for the .2MHz difference between the genesis and Macintosh

I'm going to use as much of the Genesis as possible for what it's meant for. And the power supply will be used because if anyone wants to use an original 400/800k drive, all those voltages need to be present. Plus, I'm kind of giving the genesis super powers with the 68010, as people have noted...

MegaMacs would be a cool name for it outside the US, yeah

The X is to match the naming factor of the CDX and 32X, and a 68010 would make the Macintosh side run faster, and the genesis side crash less

That could be the case. Regardless, a Macintosh Plus and a Sega Genesis sharing a CPU sounds like a really cool idea to me, my idea was to halt the Genesis' 68000, and have its data lines and the Macintosh's data lines banked via an FPGA. The FPGA will use the bus request and bus grant lines to...