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| Mystic Color Classic Descent Into Madness |
Posted by: mcbeav on 2024-08-30 10:27:42
I'm primarily posting this to share an alternative back panel for the mystic color classic that can be 3D printed, but I'll share my story and photos that lead to the model, but I'll keep it brief and to the point.
Huge thanks to Kay Koba and JDW for being awesome people!
I bought a mystic color classic from someone in good shape, but it needed to be cleaned up, and recapped. I've never recapped anything before, and I shouldn't have started with this, but I did, I made some mistakes and learned a lot along the way.
- Recapped Logicboard W/ Panasonic OSCON Low ESR Solid Polimer Caps
- Recapped the Analog Board w/ the kit from Console5 (I've since learned how to choose my own caps)
- Stereo Speaker Mod (Thanks To JDW)
- Cleaned, Recapped, Lubricated the floppy drive (Thanks yo JDW)
- Added BlueSCSI w/ SD Extension
- Swapped to full 68040 with FPU
- Overclocked CPU using Spicy O Clock (Thanks To Kay Koba)
- Had to modify Kay's Spicy mount to fit everything I wanted and still be able to access from the back panel to adjust on the fly.
- Added FlippyFloppy (Thanks To Kay Koba)
- Made a janky custom heatsink for the overclock
- Wired a board with a DB19 connector to connect floppemu using a DB19 cable.
- Designed and printed cases for an external bluescsi and floppyemu modeled after the external 800k apple floppy drive
- Recapped AppleIIe card
- Added apple ethernet card
This is the brief version, hopefully you haven't lost interest yet.
I created a new back panel to fit all of the additions. I have not seen a back panel with a slot for an SD card for easy access to the internal BlueSCSI so I added one, and it has all the symbols. I wanted my FloppyEMU to connect using a DB19 cable rather than the IDC20 cable, so I also wired that up as well. I've attached some photos, trying not to make this a giant wall of text, maybe it'll make more sense from the photos. I'm going to clean up some of the models and then open source them. I'll do that soon. Just wanted to show everything off here for now. |
Posted by: dochilli on 2024-08-30 23:35:35
The cases are very nice! I am interested in the stl-files for 3D printing. |
Posted by: mcbeav on 2024-08-31 17:45:32
The cases are very nice! I am interested in the stl-files for 3D printing. I'm going to clean up some of the models and I'll post them up soon. I'll lyk as soon as I get them uploaded somewhere. |
Posted by: nglayton on 2024-08-31 18:38:47
Nice! I Love the 3d printed cases, the back panel is a nice alternative to the other options. |
Posted by: qubitz on 2025-01-10 12:49:43
What Ethernet card do you have? Does that work with the IIe card? |
Posted by: nottomhanks on 2025-01-10 21:31:07
I was just going to say, are you able to run the Apple IIe card AND the Ethernet card in the same machine? I had read that if you had the Apple IIe card installed, the Ethernet card wouldn't be recognized. Or is it recognized if you boot to a different OS perhaps? Please let us know! |
Posted by: mcbeav on 2025-06-05 09:13:11
What Ethernet card do you have? Does that work with the IIe card?
I was just going to say, are you able to run the Apple IIe card AND the Ethernet card in the same machine? I had read that if you had the Apple IIe card installed, the Ethernet card wouldn't be recognized. Or is it recognized if you boot to a different OS perhaps? Please let us know!
I have not tried to get internet up and setup yet, but I believe that you're correct. I don't think it works with the IIe card installed. It's something I need to do more research into. |
Posted by: mcbeav on 2025-06-05 09:15:18
I finally started to open source and post up these models on my github page for anyone who is interested or finds this in the future. The back panel model repository is not yet finished. I'll be making some revisions and uploading some new models of the back panel that would likely be more useful for everyone. Mine has some modifications that I won't be useful for most people.
https://github.com/mcbeav?tab=repositories |
Posted by: qubitz on 2025-06-05 11:53:30
I have not tried to get internet up and setup yet, but I believe that you're correct. I don't think it works with the IIe card installed. It's something I need to do more research into. I've since done my own tests on this and have had no problem getting my Asante ethernet card to work at the same time as the IIe card.
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Posted by: mcbeav on 2025-06-05 12:11:17
I've since done my own tests on this and have had no problem getting my Asante ethernet card to work at the same time as the IIe card.
Awesome! That is super helpful!! Thanks for that!! |
Posted by: dochilli on 2025-06-06 02:08:33
Thank you for sharing! |
Posted by: daanvdl on 2025-06-06 02:40:56
Neat desings, Thanks! |
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