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In 2007, 68kMLA member "Mac128" (David Sibley) and myself (JDW) discussed the creation of 800K "MFS" disks and floppy drives that would work with the Macintosh 128K and 512K, regardless of ROM version. Extensive testing was done to confirm what would and would not work. A month later, Mac128...

Two thousand smackers US! Wow. I say that because I have that very card and the original grayscale kit and wire harness, including the external monitor connector. I wasn't aware prices have risen to that level now. Probably would be hard to reverse engineer a video card that complex, but...

Seems you used System Picker and now you can only boot into Dark Castle and quitting restarts the Mac. Meaning, you seem unable to get to the Desktop in order to use System Picker and fix the problem. My advise is to not use BlueSCSI as a substitute for a FloppyEMU. I use my FloppyEMU for...

I made a quick and dirty 4K iPhone video showing a nifty graphics utility that Rob Kim, creator of the IIc "Tangy Pack" HDMI/VGA Adapter, made available on his Github page: DOWNLOAD: https://github.com/rowokii/A2C_TangyPack/blob/main/Software/A2_Graphics.dsk I first spotted his software...

Very interesting. Even though the problem is apparently fixed, it seems clear that we beta testers should probably test the Prince of Persia demo on every new firmware version release!

Problem confirmed while booted into both System 6 and 7.1. Rebooting with WarpSE disabled shows no problem at all, proving the problem is definitely WarpSE...

I've already gone home and the WarpSE machine is at the office, so I shall test that tomorrow!

@Zane Kaminski Just tested with BlueSCSIv2 while booted into System 7.1, and I get pretty much the same Disk score as you... I also tested Prince of Persia, both while booted from my BlueSCSI v1 and then the v2 (with the same SD card). I first booted from my BSv1 and got a freeze during...

How many minutes must we play PoP in order to see the bug?

Zane, you talk about the clocked speed being "limited" to 50MHz, so does that mean your CPLD is clocked higher than that now? What could you achieve with that 2% that you could not without it? That's achieved with your latest WarpSE board revision (not what we beta testers have), correct...

I take it there was never a hard drive in your SE/30? When you have a hard drive like that, then switch to a BlueSCSI, your ears notice the stock fan noise a lot more. But even without experiencing the sheer loudness of a spinner drive, the BlueSCSI is 100% silent, so the only noise you will...

Great! So with the Mac Classic ROM enabled in WarpSE, we would then be able to press Command-Option-X-O and boot from ROM into System 6.0.3, just as a regular Mac Classic can do. And when using the special System Extension you mention, we would then have a 2.5MB RAM disk (contents lost when...

Congratulations on your SE/30 acquisition! It's an excellent machine to get started with in this hobby, and it sounds like you're off to a very good start. And with a BlueSCSI replacing a spinning platter drive, there will be less strain on your power supply. With that said, you mentioned...

So the primary (or only?) benefit of using the Mac Classic ROM in WarpSE is to enable a 2.5MB RAM disk, correct?

You make a lot of good points and I do not wish to diminish the importance of what you wrote in any way whatsoever. But I feel it important to repeat myself. I put the key sentence in orange color in my opening post: No electrolytic capacitor has eternal life. If a fluid-filled electrolytic...

Could be that the SWIM replacement solution by @Kay K.M.Mods won't fit either, but since there's no product dimensions given on his product page, it might be prudent to ask: https://www.infinityproducts.co.jp/product-page/super-wh-iwm-swapper-plcc44-to-dip28-swim-adapter

You'd be wrong about that. Through the years I've read many people talk about what things they THINK need recapping and what they don't. Most of that goes beyond their own personal machine usage experience and also ties in with what they read online, or more accurately, what they DON'T read...

@Zane Kaminski For the life of me, I can't get my 1.44MB floppy to NOT boot now, even with my BlueSCSI attached. It boots every time I try it! In fact, I can boot into System 0.95 and Finder 1.0 using that floppy, and both of my 2GB drive volumes on my BlueSCSI will mount. Takes a very long...

More than 50% of that 4-5 seconds is the AppleScript "application" launching. It's almost all AppleScript. If a knowledgeable person were to write a one-trick pony Extension in Assembly language that would put selected items into the Trash when CMD-DEL is pressed, that would likely be the...

The dot also doesn't appear in the windows of HFS volumes while booted into very old System Software, such as System file version 2.0, which is not HFS aware.