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  1. eharmon

    Reconnaissance: Modern Diagnostics for your Classic Mac

    The other thing I was barking up with my experiments was the possibility to load custom ROMs over serial for development purposes. Seems like you're headed in that direction with the SDK. It seems plausible this could be used to boot the entire system off a ROM loaded into memory, if addresses...
  2. eharmon

    Reconnaissance: Modern Diagnostics for your Classic Mac

    Oh wow, I was working on exactly this for the Quadra machines (though just a CLI). It can run most of the STM diagnostics, and I was trying to figure out how to work with UTE as well. I can share my notes offline if you like.
  3. eharmon

    WomBOOST - Very Small Performance Boost for your Wombat

    Neat! I love the icon. For a big Wombat does this effectively boost the timings to match the 800 and mythical 40MHz configs in ROM, or are these custom? MacWorld pegged the 800 at about 5% faster than a 650 (see below), so that seems pretty close to your results. (I know you know, but as a...
  4. eharmon

    Quadra PDS connector source?

    $16! Ouch.