Recent content by Trekintosh

I have one of these Que! Fire drives, the back section contains the USB and/or Firewire adapter board. For some reason this drive is just... missing it?

Really I’m desperate for any and all information I can get on how to do this properly, pci may be slow in the grand scheme of things but it’s far and away the most complicated and fastest bus I’ve personally touched.

Great questions! I don’t have a ton of answers because I have only a basic overview of how openfirmware works. I’ll have to lspci the machine later. I was hoping to find someone with OF experience to help patch it if it came to that. I wired the breakout basically the same as the...

Fun read, and impressive work!

I think I enjoy embellishing PCBs even more than designing them....

That was easy. Using Hirose LVDS connectors for the breakout ribbons. I'll mark these up with silkscreens and then double check some connections then send it to fab and see what happens. Don't worry, I'm not using the G4 iMac G3, I'll be using the original G3 logic board for testing until I...

Yeeeeesh, what an idiot. There sure aren't three pin 31's in the PCI address space. Not sure how that happened, I'm gonna guess I accidentally copy/pasted the 31 label instead of 28 and 29, which are conspicuously absent. Better still, I left the board at home because I thought I was done with...

Holy shit what a slog. Since this port doesn't have a name I'm officially designating it as the SL_Mezzanine port, since it's extremely similar to the tray loader's mezzanine. I didn't bother beeping out the ethernet and firewire pins, if someone *desperately* needs me to I can, but I would...

Why's PCI have to have so many goddam pins??

IT BEGINS!!!

Yeah my molar despises the startech sata > ide adapter. I tried multiple ROMs, too, an A and a C. It works *okay* with the green no name adapter except once you actually boot it just hangs on the desktop forever. (Using an Intel 60GB SSD) I ended up going with a flashed SATA card courtesy of Xodium.

I appreciate it, but really I'm looking for games that are actually from the late PowerPC era, since I'm trying to make my exhibit mostly chronological for each computer.

I've got a big-ish PowerPC exhibit for VCF that I do, and I'm just old enough that I don't really have any memories of these later machines in a school context. Does anyone know any good edutainment for these later machines? Especially since my iMac G5 runs (sorbet) Leopard so Classic isn't an...

The air wafting out the top isn't detectably warmer than before. I do have a 40mm fan strapped to the horizontal output transistor heatsink on the analog board, pulling air upwards so as not to fight the existing convection. It did run through the Norton system benchmarks without any hiccups or...

Yeah you can see the sort of thing I'm talking about in your after close-up shot of the ADC CRT. Look at the spot from the light's reflection and see the swirly scratch marks, except I was dumb and used a linear motion with my paper towels, so it was far more noticeable.