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Apple Set Top Box
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-06-13 20:03:15 This was my eBay conquest. Sorry if anyone else was trying to win it :tongue: . I wanted an impossible project and I think this is it.
Posted by: bibilit on 2019-06-14 02:34:49 Pretty nice, time to find a suitable Rom for it IIRC
Posted by: Charadis on 2019-06-14 09:23:18 Cool, those have piqued my curiosity even as of late. Are they usable for anything than a showpiece? Congrats on acquiring one, too
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-06-14 10:59:08 Pretty nice, time to find a suitable Rom for it IIRC Yeah this part might be annoying. Apparently the ROM-inator SIMM programmer is discontinued so I need to find another way to either write my own ROM or have someone do it for me... Thinking the LC 475 ROM is the one to do. Cool, those have piqued my curiosity even as of late. Are they usable for anything than a showpiece? Congrats on acquiring one, too The special developer units with a different ROM and a video card that fits in the expansion slot would be probably easier to experiment with. These ones just kind of expect a T1/E1 service with an Oracle server at the other end. I do have some ideas I want to try though.
Posted by: Solvalou on 2019-06-14 16:18:29 Nice I wondered who won that eBay auction. Keep us updated.
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-06-14 18:25:51 Also if any other set top box owners have the red ROM stick with the "LC 475 GM" label, I'd like a dump of that if possible. Or I might be willing to just buy it and/or related set top box parts.
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-06-14 23:14:27 So I've already got this booting off the drive from my LC 475... There's no video so I dropped a copy of MacCheck in the startup folder and then used command-I to bring up the brief info box and took a screenshot. Pulled it off the drive after. Since I can't actually see what I'm doing, it's tough trying to make this thing display good detailed hardware information...
Posted by: PB145B on 2019-06-14 23:19:03 Wow, this is cool stuff! I’ve always been intrigued by these things.
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-07-03 22:22:45 On a whim I ordered a gglabs 2mb ROM with a Quadra 840av ROM image... Unfortunately it does nothing. I was hoping it would be close enough to the AV hardware and give me TV output like on the AV Macs. Now I need to maybe figure out how to take my original STB ROM dump and add to it, then burn it to this SIMM.
Posted by: johnklos on 2019-07-03 22:29:14 If I remember correctly, AV machines require an FPU. Try swapping in a full m68040.
Posted by: netfreak on 2019-07-03 22:48:01 If I remember correctly, AV machines require an FPU. Try swapping in a full m68040. You got my hopes up there... Threw a full 040 in but no change. I'm probably going to be stuck with figuring out ROM disassembly.
Posted by: maceffects on 2019-07-05 21:28:52 Please keep us posted, I’ve had many over the years and always wondered what it could do. I’m certain something could be done.
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