I decided to try the desktop 50 pin version of the #BlueSCSI V2 and the #AppleLisaClone seems to work great with it! Pings work, telnet works, apps don’t corrupt on exit, disk parity errors are gone!
So let’s try this thing out! I put the Lisa Clone #BBS back up again (it may be a day or two old from the last time it was run, sorry, disk corruption!)
Telnet to bbs.mc68000.com port 6400 and try it out!
It’s #AppleLisaClone update time! I got the next rev of my Lisa breakout card (power, floppy, keyboard, sound, etc.) and put one together.
It powers on correctly but doesn’t progress to the system test, it’s stuck at the very early power on stage.
Voltages all look correct and in the right places. FloppyEmu powers on. If I hit reset a few times, it randomly progresses to an error 40 (MMU fault) but I think this is a red herring..
Another #AppleLisaClone update! You’ll remember I was debugging my new #AppleLisa breakout board. I was getting strange behavior: system would boot only once when cold, reboots after would hang and not progress to POST.
I focused most of my time on my board. Cutting traces, bodging, testing. Nothing was improving.
It wasn’t until I put in a new CPU card when things suddenly began working 100%!
Soft power, floppy, Mac keyboard input all working! 😎
I have a bunch of saved searches that usually return nothing (RARE!!1!) but as of recently, these normally dormant searches have sprung to life showing things that are clearly not the thing I’m looking for. I don’t think it’s because these products suddenly got posted for sale, I think they’re changing search to make sure it returns something, anything.
Inserting a disk (well, selecting one on the FloppyEmu) doesn’t seem to work though. I’m getting an error 38 which means no boot file on disk. So do I have bad disk images? Did I get the floppy interface wiring wrong?’does the FloppyEmu need a special mode to work with the Lisa?
It does “eject” the disk though so something is working.
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