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Yes, I'll do the SCSI driver as well, though that should be easy using the same process as the video ndrv and it doesn't remove the external SCSI boot requirement, so I'm going to do that last. For me getting the Ethernet working is more important. The video extension is based on the 53m30...

Okay, I have internal video working for Mac OS on 1.1.20.1 with the 2.0 ndrv. I created an extension shell for it in ResEdit and grafted the code fragment into the data fork with a hex editor, and it worked on the first try. I'm now hacking the Startup Disk cdev to make the restarts better...

No, I don't think any of the 2.2 ROMs will work for MacOS, only 2.0 and 1.1.20.1. Love to be proven wrong, but I couldn't get it to boot on 2.2 and the others are not significantly different. Yes, 1.1.22 is the shipping ROM for booting AIX, which is what's in my production 500 (which boots AIX).

1.1.22 is the production ROM, which definitely won't work. 2.2b6 could be interesting, but doesn't have many differences from the 2.2NT ROM which does not seem to boot MacOS either, at least not in my testing.

It's not understood right now why it doesn't properly handle the cache. Repeatedly flashing the ROMs to test guesses isn't anyone's idea of a good time. I don't think this can be easily solved until we get the ANS emulated, which I know some Smart People(tm) are looking at, but doesn't yet...

I'll look at this when I'm back on that console (remote again). The drivers won't change the need for 1.1.20.1 to boot from the external SCSI port, though. My main mission is just to make Mac OS reboot reliably on 1.1.20.1, and that would be enough for me. The internal video isn't that great, so...

To distill it a little for folks who aren't sure, the main point is whether you need hardware support or performance. The 1.1.20.1 ROMs do not support internal video, internal SCSI and (it turns out) internal MACE Ethernet, and you may have to reset the board or monkey with Open Firmware between...

I received @trag 's ROM SIMMs and tested them out thoroughly. One of the four appears to be a dud and I'll send that back to him for a post-mortem. The other three work. I was able to boot from the internal SCSI and internal video as advertised, and it even fixed my problem with the onboard MACE...

They're now announcing a 64C version. Looks pretty nice.

The Rage 128 will work fine with the ANS. You may or may not have to change the output-device to it; I don't know how the 2.0 ROM works in that regard.

Are you doing that on the internal video, or a video card? What resolutions and colour depths are you getting?

Definitely confirm the drive jumpers. If the SCSI ID and term jumper blocks were connected to the tray, the ANS backplane is doing the work for you. When you disconnect it, the drive will not be terminated and be likely ID 0. 256K cache was not a standard loadout for the ANS (it came with 512K...

The answer to your GEOS question is, have the GEOS disk in the drive and tap the RESTORE key. The answer to your other question is, de gustibus non disputandum. :)

Interesting. Do you have cache installed? Which speed CPU? A very stupid question: is the drive terminated/has a sane ID? The ANS backplane does this for you but otherwise you'd have to jumper it connecting it to any other system.

That seems surprising - did you use the 2.0 ROMs or the pre-production ROMs? What happened when you tried? Since you have an ESB there, it's possible there's a hardware difference that 9.1 doesn't like. My own ESB is busted so I can't confirm that. Crashed like how? You wouldn't need to mount...

No, not vapourware at all - Wheels was very popular with power users for a time (early-mid 2000s) but it has steep system requirements and wasn't anywhere as widely used as regular GEOS. GUIs have never been particularly popular in the C64 scene and only GEOS had wide currency because it...

At last check, https://cbmfiles.com/ but it doesn't look like it's been updated in some years. "Click Here Software will be making available for free downloading the following applications for the Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128: Wheels 64, Wheels 128, plus all the major GEOS apps such as...

Last I heard, Wheels was still commercial software (though whether Maurice is actually selling any copies is another question). As another data point, I rarely used GEOS back in the day and for me it was mostly a curiosity; it was too slow for the tasks I needed and it wasn't as easy to program...

I remember talking about that back in the day. Seems like there were too many issues to iron out in the end, as I recall.

These things happen.