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Post #1 by uniserver
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateSat, 8 Nov 2014 - 05:03
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/booting-mac-plus-right-from-rom-some-games.572/
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http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/plusrom/index.html

( Rob's Post on his site )

The Mac Plus (and associated machines) have 1MB of contiguous address space around the ROM, starting at $400000 through $4FFFFF. However, the Plus ROM is only 128K in size. This project is for an adapter to allow a full 1MB ROM plugged into the Mac Plus, and a modified ROM image to utilize the extra space as a ROM disk.
Just got mine from Rob, and really makes the PLUS cool. Boots up instant. Works Great!

- just pop old rom's out

- pop new unit in

- solder the 2 wires from rom to A18 and A19 legs of the cpu

and your all set!

If anyone wants to buy a Mac Plus system, with this mod already installed...

talk to bbraun.  He is desperately trying to get rid of a whole fleet of his Mac Plus machines.

I'm sure his prices are quite fair!

My ROM has - Mac OS 6.0.8 installed and some Games as well! 

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heck, this rom with an older OS might even work with the Mac 128k

This one here should also work with the 512k.

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