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  1. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @JDW -Yes, I ran the tests on a few of my drives, including my Iomega 100Mb: And my external SCSI2SD drive: And I tested other functionality within the program, including it's ability to mount drives, such as my Iomega 100Mb: Seemed to all work well.
  2. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    So I jut got done installing SCSI Director on my SE running O.S. 7.1 off of it's original 20Mb drive. So far i just did a simple test: get SCSI director up and running. And, it appears to run well, instantly seeing the multitude of SCSI devices that I have currently attached to this machine...
  3. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @JDW -what O.S. are you using with SCSI Director Pro 4.0?
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    I've been doing some more testing simple testing, such as running my "After Dark" fish screen saver run indefinitely, including an hour so far today-with no problems. Another interesting test, this: This is an original 400k disk that my parents gave me back in the late '80's with, of course...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @phipli And a superdrive? Yes! I had both a super-drive and an 800k drive hooked up. The 800k drive was inside the mac and hooked to the front port; the 1.44Mb drive was hooked to the back port and hanging out on my desk. Additionally, here is a shot of my floppy chip:
  6. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    So I tried to duplicate the test results the @JDW had where he was able to read 1.44Mb floppies off of an SE board with only 800k capabilities and.......nothing, womp womp. Maybe there is another fundamental difference between the re-loaded board and a stock one? There shouldn't be, but there...
  7. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    This is pretty amazing! I will re-install my 800k SE board in my test machine later today when I get home from work and duplicate this test.
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    Sounds like my old job at a local college here in Northampton. They would throw out so much perfectly good equipment; the desktop machine that I use for work that runs Windows 10 Professional came from this place. And despite the fact that it is from 2011, it works just fine, albeit with an...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @JDW -I had a similar problem trying to run Visual Basic on my machine with Windows 10 Professional. Of course, in my case I also installed a program called "Stop Windows 10 Updates" because I got sick and tired of having everything set up the way I want, and then they through and update at you...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @Zane Kaminski So I have flashed and tried the.7a-fastscsi firmware in my SE. The good news: As expected, there is a very significant performance improvement in SCSI throughput speeds. The test with firmware .7a-fastscsi is on the right; on the left is a test with firmware version .6f...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    I also did some more quick tests with the .6f firmware, including a perspective drawing using MacPaint 2, as well as running Speedometer. Again, these tests were done with the 1.44Mb Superdrive board while booting off of a 20Mb Hard drive running O.S. 7.1. Additionally, I used the Iomega drive...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    Hello All, I did a quick video of my machine booting up, and tried to explain some of the things that I have done/seen and the equipment that I've been using. I had to break it up into two parts to get it to fit here! In this video, it is starting up with the .6f firmware.
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    Also, I guess I should re-iterate that I am using stock Macintosh boards with the accelerator; I do not have any re-loaded boards. I now have both an original 800k and 1.44Mb Superdrive board available for testing purposes.
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @Zane Kaminski -The power supply was so low on voltage that nothing would come on, except the fan. So I simply swapped the board from that machine into the machine that i have been using for testing all along. This is my SE SuperDrive: And this time, I wrote a note to myself on the computer...
  15. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    So I tried to fire up my SE Superdrive......and nothing. Long story short, it looks like the power supply in it is in dire need of a re-cap. Just another of the 138 or so projects around here that I need to get to at some point in time...... Anyways, I pulled SE Superdrive board out of that...
  16. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @JDW -I was getting checkerboard screens sometimes at startup when I was using the last firmware update from Zane. So far with the latest update that I've applied-.6b- I haven't had that problem, but then again I have only used me SE twice so far with this firmware. @Zane Kaminski -do you want...
  17. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    Soooo......I installed firmware .6b onto my WarpSE accelerator and then fired up the machine with, once again, the caddy-loading CD-ROM (Apple CD300) and an 100Mb Iomega SCSI drive attached to the external SCSI port, and the machine fired right up! I also did a test similar to what @JDW did...
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    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    However, this morning when I went to fire up my SE with the same SCSI devices attached, I once again got a checkerboard: So I shut the machine down, and then turned it back on.....and it fired right up. I'm still using the WarpSE.GW4410A.1.0 firmware that @Zane Kaminski sent me last week, and so...
  19. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    @JDW -Thanks for the video-very informative! I haven't noticed any problems with the mouse pointer in my test, but then again, I've been testing item that I tend to use in my person setups to see how they perform....I actually never thought to try Mac Paint, although I have run Photoshop 1 with...
  20. JTRetro

    WarpSE: 25 MHz 68HC000-based accelerator for Mac SE

    I also was finally able to get the Iomega drive up and running, running it in conjunction with the CD-ROM. No problems accessing the Iomega drive either: