Well, its been a long long long time coming, but I finally have it, my CC project is nearing completion.
I started out with a standard CC
I got a 575 mb and did the high-res mod
I finally got my hands on a 1.2gb HD and last night I did the HD swap and initialized the HD and then made the 10mb ProDos Partition.
I then did a performa Restore from the performa 500 series restore CD I got my grubby little hands on.
20 minutes after I took the machine apart, I was running OS 7.5 on a fresh 1.2gb 33mhz 32mb ram CC.
I then installed the apple//e card, hooked up the 5.25" floppy, installed the apple//e software and I was playing Wings of Fury once more!
Tonight I have some old software to install and then I need to learn how to navigate around in Apple//e world so I can run software off the 10mb HD and can detach the 5.25" floppy drive so I can once again store the old floppies in safe storage.
I have to say, this CC runs much snappier than I ever expected it to. Honestly, I think it could be a viable machine to use if it could access the internet all the time. Alas it cant, as the apple//e card uses the same slot as the NIC would.
regardless, I doubt running the web at 640x480 would be any fun anyhow, and the bottleneck of the 33mhz might make surfing frustrating too.
I have a few things left to do on this project, including making the back pannel cover fit nicely again. what its future brings, i just dont know, but i have enjoyed this project more than i thought I would.
One thing that would be awsome to do is to have video in including coax so I could hook up the Atari 2600 up to it, that would be a blast, holy grail would be to have all three, NIC, video in, and the Apple//e card all installed, oh and still being in OS 7.5 so the apple//e card will work
Kevin
As you've found, the 575 logic board is pretty snappy - faster than the earliest PPC Macs.
Stuart
I have pics of the completed project.
http://www.vermontel.net/~kevin_ondre/mac%20files/Mystic%20Color%20Classic/Mystic%20Color%20Classic.html
Kevin
I just found a NIC for the CC!!! I had it all along!
I also have a cd with Netscape 2.0 on it....now i have a new thing to test out....getting this CC on line and downloading stuff to it! sweet. but alas I will have to remove the Apple//e card to do so, but thats ok i guess, I can alwasy just slide the MB out and put the Apple//e card back in.
Kevin
Glad to hear of the progress; you may find iCab compatible with more sites than Netscrape 2. ISTR that alternatively you can use later versions of Netscape.
Stuart
I'd love to hack my CC to hi-res. *sigh* I'm envious. 512x384 seems sooo constraining.
for ethernet, you could just use a scsi adapter
Stuart
Scared of botching the soldering and thus wrecking my only analog board.
Isn't it possible to do the mod on the wiring harness instead?
This is the process I followed.
http://www.vermontel.net/~kevin_ondre/mac%20files/Mystic_CC_videomod.doc
its located on my pittiful web list
http://www.vermontel.net/~kevin_ondre/mac%20files/
That was actually pretty easy to do.
I can imagine that this isnt the fourm for this, but I do want to mention that the whole package is up for sale.
Pics are here:
http://www.vermontel.net/~kevin_ondre/auctions/Mystic%20Color%20Classic/Mystic%20Color%20Classic.html
Kevin