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Thought this overview of open-toolchain FPGA hardware might be of interest to hardware hackers looking to build new projects with FPGAs:  https://www.ktemkin.com/exploring-open-fpga-hardware/

Love this game, thanks for fixing this issue!

Looks great! Love the dramatic photos. Seems like the picture is not distorted, guessing you didn't have to mess with the magnets much? I gotta find one of these green CRTs.

Socket wrench was all I needed, looked more difficult than it was. The yoke was a bit of a pain just because it’s fragile and lots of wires were around limiting movement. There’s goo around the anode so wear gloves! 

I messed with the centering rings and improved the picture, but there's still larger geometric distortion on the top and bottom right. I'm looking at maccaps guide and tried to rotate them a bit with needle nose pliers but they were hard to move and adjusted things in unexpected ways since they...

Also here's better pics of the flyback transformer it came with.

Got it working @jessenator! Note the anode (red hole coming out of CRT) is on the opposite side relative to Mac CRTs. You can tell because the neckboard connectors on the amber monitor are 180* off - the missing pin should be on the top left if you're looking at it from the back. Other than that...

For anyone curious, I bought one of the ones on ebay that @jessenator mentioned, and it looks like a drop-in replacement without the need for physical adapters. I haven't yet swapped the yoke as I'm a bit short on time these days and cautious around high voltage electronics :)  Ironically my...

The current steel frame of the SE/30 has a few jobs: Hold the logic board in place above the bottom of the chassis Provide mounting points for the analog board and front case Support a hard drive and a floppy drive Support any PDS cards from moving around Hold the expansion...

Definitely salvaging what I can from this board! At some point my six half-working SE/30s will become three working ones :)   According to the Xceed Color 30 manual, it outputs 640x480 @ 67Hz, so isn't compatible with my 2001 NEC LCD unfortunately. Wish there was some 67Hz -> 60Hz adapter...

After 7 years and dozens of various acquisitions, I've finally got a Micron Xceed! Pretty excited about getting it running. It came from a rusted SE/30 from eBay. I believe this is a Color 30 model. The only damage is some rusting on the PDS connector. After some toothbrush cleaning it looks...

Slightly esoteric question, but to reduce the swapping of accelerators, is it possible to have BOTH a socketed Daystar Powercache 030 AND a Daystar Turbo 040 in the machine, and simply flip the 040 software switch to pick between them? That way you'd have the fastest 030 and 040 in a single...

Same sign me up, want to go all-in on a bolle special maccon ;)  

Sign me up for one as well if these become available. Love the work you’re doing.

Fantastic @Bolle! Many/most of us run SCSI2SD, wondering if there's a way to make room for a SD card or USB header so we don't have to open the case to swap data? 

Kudos, you did it!

Too bad @ants but happy you got a speed up on 040!  Re Tpope’s note about cpanel, see link below on the lack of need for system enabler in MacOS 8 as noted here. Maybe focus on getting OS 8 going on se/30? Or find that driver. Else you mayyybe could try setting gestaltID to 104 as noted in...

@ants in this thread it was recently figured out that there's a pin that needs to be bridged on the twinspark to make it work like daystar adapters to enable cache on SE/30. Maybe this is the answer?

Interesting. I don't understand what changed to make the P33/P34 ones 'universal' then, if prior ones still worked with adapters. The TwinSpark states it can only work with P33 cards, but then again the TwinSpark is most likely a clone of DiiMo's IIsi adapter. 

Be careful @Bolle, that does not look like a P33 card - no label in lower left corner. Yours looks like the regular non-universal powercache card (seen here), which I believe only works in the IIci. Not positive, but there might even be an electrical risk of plugging one of those + adapters into...