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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    I did mention that in #7 You can set output to ttyb:57600 to increase the baud rate. A small patch is required to enable 115200 or 230400 bps. I made the commit in my DingusPPC fork. It makes it easy to get into Open Firmware on a pm6100 and it allows editing/saving the nvram...
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    Powerbook 180 & Tunnel Vision

    A ghost window is visible in the last image of #1 It appears to be a ghost of the "Work" window from the image before that.
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    You can but there's also a checksum to update. It's a simple algorithm so you could just make a perl or python or bash script. You can look at the DingusPPC source code for the format. Normal NVRAM has the Open Firmware variables at offset 0x1800 but the Copland NVRAM has Open Firmware variables...
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    I didn't touch System Picker. I used System 7.5. Not 7.5.5. I don't know if that matters. Capslock snag key might work if you press it as soon as you see the happy Mac. Or maybe before that when you see the gray screen.
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    I can at least get into Open Firmware with DingusPPC emulating 136 MB of RAM. I probably won't be able to get to a sad Mac until SCSI emulation is working properly with the Open Firmware SCSI driver. Copland may require a second Mac connected to the modem port for debugging (but they do say it...
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    All those numbers had to mean something :)
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    I wish I had bothered to look at the Figure 5.2 that Figure 8.5 was pointing to when I was looking at Figure 8.5 the first time.
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    I believe it's an actual Apple Open Firmware implementation that uses some info from System 7.5 (search for >hwinit). I don't know how it compares to the stub you mention. It's more than just a device tree. It has Open Firmware packages and drivers. It has version 2.0 so it's newer than the...
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux

    Apple did make a Open Firmware for NuBus Power Macs. It's part of the Copland boot process. It is loaded by System 7.5 and uses some info from System 7.5 (video framebuffer information, Open Firmware section of nvram from a binary file, etc.). It is being discussed on the DingusPPC discord. I...
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    Congrats on solving the problem! The LS166 did appear to be shifting bits correctly - all characters being displayed had all bits matching the bits of a character from the Video ROM (Figure 8.8 #5 ) which means bytes from the Video ROM were being received by the LS166 correctly. The...
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    MFM Floppy Drives?

    Open Firmware does contain code for MFM drives. Open Firmware, 2.0.2 for PM 4400 and 7220 can choose between a MFMfloppy device and a swim3 device depending on some value read from a board register at offset 1a000 of OHare. There's a Open Firmware driver for swim3 but not MFMfloppy. In Open...
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    Important question, Can I use a single pump if one LCS pump is broken!!!!!

    I don't know anything about that. The PCBs from DIYINHK are not mentioned in the air cooling links I posted. They are mentioned here: Past summer project - G5 Quad LCS rebuild LCS Issues Late 2005 Quad
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    Cpu0 and cpu1 help needed.

    I have no info regarding G5 air cooler compatibility with G5 liquid cooled CPUs. I linked some air cooling threads at #9
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    Important question, Can I use a single pump if one LCS pump is broken!!!!!

    These are the recent ones: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/because-i-can-air-modding-a-quad-with-pc-coolers.2427612/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/air-cooling-a-late-2005-g5-quad.2455900/...
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    Important question, Can I use a single pump if one LCS pump is broken!!!!!

    There's a couple Quad G5 air cooling threads on MacRumors. They use third party air coolers - 92 mm.
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    Cpu0 and cpu1 help needed.

    MacRumors has a couple recent threads on converting a Quad G5 to air cooling.
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    The point of setting all the bytes in the text to all the same value is so that you can find that byte value on the bus. You're saying the VIDEO ROM is getting all the bits of the value correctly? That doesn't seem possible. Did you compare VID6 to the IOU with A9 to the VIDEO ROM? Do they match...
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    Here's another test program. Change the value in line 5 to any bit pattern or character you think might be helpful. 5 TEST = 255-64 10 FOR Y = 0 TO 23 20 AB = INT(Y / 8) 30 CDE = Y - AB * 8 40 OFFSET = CDE * 128 + AB * 40 50 FOR X = 0 to 39 : POKE 1024+OFFSET+X,TEST : NEXT 60 NEXT 70 POKE...
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    I think so. Do you mean the IOU at E5? I guess if you're done looking at all the traces to the Video ROM at F4 then sure, try the IOU chip. You said all the traces had variable signals. Did you check the voltage levels to make sure that low is low enough and high is high enough?
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    SOLVED Apple //e with PAL composite video displaying issue

    This is a better test: 10 HTAB 1:VTAB 1: PRINT " `Aa": PRINT PEEK(1024) " " PEEK(1025) " " PEEK(1026) " " PEEK(1027) I tested it at https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple//e The result is 160 224 193 225 which are 0xA0 0xE0 0xC1 0xE1 The problem you're trying to track down is why character 0xA0...