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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Can you insert some quotes from previous posts to remind us what this is about? EDIT your post, click the [ ] button to toggle off BB code, position the text insertion point in your post where you want to insert a quote, find the old post that you want to quote and click the REPLY button of...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    Yes. 0 to my-self dev enet 1 encode-int " PLSCCPort" property .properties device-end dev doesn't open the device. It just sets the active-package. For the console problem, I wonder if serial can remain the input/output device and you open the graphics device manually. Like this...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    I suppose I can understand that the ndrv might not be sufficient to opening the graphics device if it wasn't opened in Open Firmware beforehand. That just means the ndrv was poorly written. Looking at the code for property, it uses my-self if it is not zero. Otherwise, it uses active-package...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    You're talking about fixing the Open Firmware console? Does it matter if it's screen/keyboard or serial port? Some might prefer serial if they have another computer and a serial port connection. Default for PowerSurge machines is modem port. Usually it doesn't matter because boot usually skips...
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    "This version of MoviePlayer requires version 14 or 15 of the Codec Manager. Sorry."

    Did you do as I suggested to find the version of MoviePlayer that doesn't work? Not sure about Codec Manager. I thought it was referring to Component Manager. Maybe they're related. Things -> Codecs -> Components ? QuickTime 4 Reference mentions the codec manager once. The supermario source...
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    "This version of MoviePlayer requires version 14 or 15 of the Codec Manager. Sorry."

    Select "Recent Applications" from the Apple menu to open the "Recent Applications" folder. Select the "MoviePlayer" icon, then select "Show Original" in the "File" menu. This will select the application that you are trying to run. Select "Get Info" from the "File" menu. What version does it...
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    New Web Resource: The Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software (a.k.a. a whole lotta icons!)

    I didn't notice any special characters that don't exist in other icon data links. Might want to log a bug with FireFox. What about PowerFox? https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/powerfox-new-web-browser-for-leopard-on-powerpc.5024/
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    Apple Lisa 3d Case Project

    If the base is 350x350 then that's 495 mm diagonal. Of course, a 495 mm long rectangle could only have a thickness of 0 in that case. So I googled this: "thickest rectangle 450 mm in length that can fit in a 350x350 square" it says 𝟒𝟒.𝟗𝟕 𝐦 I did not verify the math.
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    New Web Resource: The Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software (a.k.a. a whole lotta icons!)

    Can you right click the bad icon and do "Open image in new tab"? You can copy the url using something like "Copy image address"? The first missing icon (top row, 4th column) has a url like this...
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    Bondi Blue iMac Restoration

    Makes sense. I have a dump of that one. You wrote v3.0.2f but I think it's 3.0.f2. The ROM dump has 13f2 which I take to mean 3.1.3f2 but I'm not sure about stuff before 3.2.4. See "List of Open Firmware versions" at...
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    Bondi Blue iMac Restoration

    Right. USB booting wasn't added to Open Firmware until 3.2.4f1. Backporting this would be difficult but not impossible. What's the "built on" date/time for your Open Firmware version? Open Firmware versions were strange prior to 3.2... I created patches for Beige G3 to support LBA-48 in Open...
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    Apple Network Server MacOS based ROMs found

    I used Jasik's MacNosy to disassemble the "mace" container from the Apple Enet 2.4.5 extension. I made a script to dump the string tables from the .asm file. The property name PLSCCPort is at offset $7C1 in the string list global glob72 in AppleEnet.asm (the .list file disagrees on global...
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    Apple Lisa 3d Case Project

    Real floppy drive is too deep. If you're going to include one, Have the opening on the side (like iMac CD ROM). The front floppy slot can have other stuff - SD card(s)? https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/the-apple-lisa-inside-an-fpga.5292/post-46958 Is the ESFLOPPY SD a separate device from...
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    I think one of the goals is to be able to use the 68K driver unmodified without having to write a new driver. This driver is on disk or in a ROM on the card?
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    I suppose one could take a video of the display to see if the raster is horizontal or not. It must be horizontal according to the timing info posted at https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/page-buffer-capture-from-radius-fpd-se-vram-input-first-baby-step-to-cloning-card.52646/post-594899 57.283 MHz...
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    Weird.. post deletion?

    An owner of a thread can delete the work of others by deleting their thread? That seems wrong.
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    Disconnecting data bits is one way to determine order of the bits. We know the order of the bits as seen by the Mac CPU side: big endian with the most significant bit being the left most pixel. Disconnect a bit on the VRAM. Try to set or clear all the bits. Read back the result. The stuck bit is...
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    The CPU is a 68K CPU. QuickDraw will use 68K CPU instructions such as MOVE or MOVEM to read and write pixels from and to VRAM for scrolling, or for drawing icons or windows and the mouse cursor. Are you thinking that the Mac has a framebuffer that is separate from the framebuffer of the Radius...
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    Does the Radius FPD/SE provide a vertical blanking interrupt?
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    Page Buffer Capture from Radius FPD/SE VRAM Input - First baby step to cloning Card

    Random access input and the serial output are both 16 bits wide. Figuring out data order of one will determine the order of the other. Can you map the PDS data lines to the VRAM input lines? That will tell you the order of the bits. But you said there's a GAL between the PDS and VRAM so...