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I also build most of the MiSTer addon boards

No worries, we know you'll get there!

Congrats AL, Cautiously optimistic.

That's impressive. Every 1541 I've ever gotten was broken and in the case of the Newtronics mechs, unrepairable (bad heads)

VME was super common for Motorola 680x0 based industrial and scientific embedded systems (and PowerPC later on). They didn't have to reinvent the wheel, and theoretically, could leverage cards from other systems.

Been trying to find one of these for ages. PM please Thanks!

It does not, the input to the adapter is specific to the TT030 VGA port pinout. I have been looking at a version for older Mac and Sun ECL outputs.

Legacy Pixels is me, and I do still have these available Thanks!

This is "the way" Over at Legacy Pixels, we don't take any payment until there is an item tested and ready to ship. Oddly enough, I have had people get upset that I wouldn't accept a pre-order...

A later model 2 might be OK overclocked (they switched to the 64 bit SoC for later 2's)

A pi 2 won't do it. You need a pi3 or 4 (a or b) or a pi Zero 2

Yeah, no. Recall that the 1st meg (plus 64K) on a PC (real mode) was fundamentally different from any other memory, and the only place you can run executables. Most often, the challenge was freeing up enough of that space for the program under consideration. Memory managers handled mapping the above 1 meg ram so that programs could access it (really just horrible bank switching or copying...) . They also exploited 'empty' spaces above 640k, but below 1 meg, for small things like mouse drivers. It wasn't plug and play, and it wasn't a lot of fun. For a challenge, get Doom running under DOS on a 4 meg machine, oh, and you'll need Lantastic to support your ArcNet cards..... Better than chip, fast, slow, whatever? Probably, but it wasn't "just run this magic program and it will all work" either. Full disclosure, I came from 6502 and 68K, and you'll never convince me that segmented memory is anything other than an abomination unto mankind ? I remember having to learn about and choose from the 6 different memory models that Borland C supported... 'fun' times.....

I have a Rigol 1054Z that I really like for most go to things, along with an old HP 54645D MSO.

OK, cool. Finishing up a VT100 terminal respin, I'll look at this next

So, to clarify what is desired... box thingy that you plug in a standard PC keyboard and mouse (PS/2, or possibly USB), which then plugs into the keyboard port on the Mega ST/STe systems?