Recent content by Stinkerton18

The firmware in that repo is not for the IIGS, it's for flashing onto the Arduino and is based on which of the two models you're building (SMD or through hole soldering). As for the gerbers, you zip up the entire gerbers folder to upload to JLCPCB or PCBWay. All of the files in that folder are...

That's both awesome and now I feel incredibly foolish for soldering 21 freaking wires to 19 pins, when I only really needed 9. 😒 Oh well, at least now I know I have a cable that would also work just fine with a DuoDrive...if I ever get my hands on one of those and 5/14" floppies.

I finally, finally managed to get time to build the DB25-->DB19 cable (wired the same as the DuoDisk drive cable). I can indeed confirm the firmware works with a IIgs. Here's mine fully assembled and connected (hooked up via RCA through a USB capture device) Huge thanks for BMOW for the wiring...

While doing a random, late night ebay search (they're the best really), I found this: Your eyes are not deceiving you. There is a 34-pin Floppy port (pretty standard), a 40-pin IDE port, 15-pin "Game" port, 9-pin Serial port, and physical DB25 Parallel and DB9 Serial ports are on the bracket...

I have a Floppy Emu (from Big Mess of Wires) which works great. It's a little more expensive but honestly worth it. As for your IIgs question, the IIgs uses a 15Hz refresh which not all monitors tolerate/work with. If you can get a monitor for a reasonable price, it's worth it to at least have...

This is part of the reason why I did it the way I did. I didn't have a JST connector to plug into the BlueSCSI PCB (still don't) but wanted to test out the WebUI. Stacked like this does make pressing the button to flash/update the firmware on the "BlueSCSI" Pico a little tricky, but it works...

Welcome to the forums! Apologies again for the misunderstanding.

Thanks for posting this! I recently went to flash/program my newly built adapter, and was having issues getting the sketch to compile. Turns out there's some major changes in the SdFat library that makes the 2.x version incompatible with the SmartPortSD code. Downgrading to the 1.1.4 version...

Granted, I did have to run EZBios to enable LBA48-bit and access anything past the 8GB barrier, but it does work! Installed/Runs Windows 98SE without a hitch.

I've used this mSata to IDE adapter in a couple older laptops, most recently in one with a Pentium 1 200Mhz MMX processor: https://www.amazon.com/mSATA-44pin-Notebook-Laptop-Enclosure/dp/B01GRMUQRG/ That and a reliable mSata SSD (Samsung, Crucial, etc.) would give you a decent boot to...

Windows 7 is out of the question. All Intel CPUs from the 386 through the Pentium iV, are 32-bit only and cannot support more than 4GB of RAM, if the motherboard/chipset can even support that much. It wasn't until the late Pentium 3 (late coppermine/tualatin) and Pentium IV systems that 2GB -...

For those who aren't familiar with the Advantech PCA-6157, it's a Socket 7 Single Board computer with 4 72-pin SIMM slots, no onboard video, ISA and PCI backplane compatibility. I don't remember the exact spec name but it's pretty common/standard with the 16-bit ISA connectors first, followed by...

Maybe it's just me but...those ICs look "oily", like they've been treated to some unusually high heat. Was there some sort of thermal pad on them before hand? Aside from that I agree that it looks like the traces are decently large enough they could be repaired with some small gauge jumper wires.

Made 1 minor edit to the title just to reflect the satire/joke nature in case it wasn't 100% clear for other folks.

Hmmm, very interesting. So it's a Western Digital controller chip, just using Xilinx FPGAs. The biggest question I have is whether or not the CDROM drives show up/are accessible in DOS directly. If you didn't load/modify your config.sys to include any drivers and didn't add/setup your...