Mac SE/ARM

#1 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 - 11:57

A gutted SE/30 and a Seagate Dockstar NAS combined into a 1.2GHz ARM server - with both a homebrew ADB converter to use the original keyboard, and a homebrew ARM Cortex GPU to run the original analog board and CRT.

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http://spritesmods.com/?art=macsearm

#2 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 - 12:37

Wow! 8-o Very impressive!

No time to read the .TXT right now, gotta get to the beach! Lookin' forward to it though! :approve:

#3 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 - 18:11

WOW! That is an awesome collection of hacks! I like the SD card reader disguised as a floppy disk

#4 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 - 19:37

Yup, that dude does some interesting work

Check out the rest of his hacks.

#5 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 - 04:53

Ya i remember reading this awhile back, i think he used an open source emulator compiled on top of the ARM CPU.

#6 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 - 18:33

Emulating the original Mac was an afterthought, from my reading: the point of the exercise was a convenient small Linux server.

#7 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 - 00:32

It's cool that the emulator uses zterm through a virtual serial port to shell back into the server.

#8 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 - 04:53

Yeah, that thing is amazing, on pretty much every level.

#9 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 - 16:10

I'd put the over/under as to whether the guy who made this has a girlfriend somewhere around a hundred to one. ;^)

This really is an insane piece of work, particularly the roll-your-own USB video adapter.