Curious why we call this the Cursed Mac? Check out the full playlist. It's a heck of a journey! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqyJrc2KqbyYZ5s.html

@andrive

3 жыл бұрын

btw you used #MARCHintosh in April

@goeland4585

3 жыл бұрын

The *_cursed_* playlist

@dbtest117

3 жыл бұрын

So does this card use the original ram memory, or is it separated. I have an SE/30 with way to little ram to run anything better than System6.

@kriswhite9324

2 жыл бұрын

@22:50 I think the VRM's are singing

@squiddobutboy

2 жыл бұрын

it's cursed because you have too much stuff you can upgrade

Holy smokes! This is the perfect upgrade for the cursed SE/30! Also the fact that you can switch CPUs on the fly is insane. This video was totally worth all the hyping up.

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Thank ya!

@s1mmermodule

Жыл бұрын

Now it is more of a SE/40 actually.

Dang that dude's drag soldering is slick. Very cool to see people so enthusiastic about their hardware that they tinker so hard they completely reverse engineer it into a superior product.

...Finally! You sure know how to drag out the suspense.

@Voidsworn

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking...wonder what could be done with a FPGA "soft cpu accelerator" in that slot? Could reduce the cards needed/size.

I like your news site - so refreshing seeing a simple news site, which lets you focus on reading and isn't bloated to hell. Useful on a modern machine aswell

OMG, I was so hyped up for this!!!! Nothing better than a Saturday and some Action Retro

This mac is even more terrifying than a 5g nano with a large black spot.

@RisingRevengeance

3 жыл бұрын

na no

@JamesnLollify

3 жыл бұрын

@@RisingRevengeance NO

@couldntmixapotnoodle

3 жыл бұрын

@@RisingRevengeance Oh no my pk cell

@goeland4585

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesnLollify yes?

Ok, this is legit one of the coolest macs I've ever seen. Not that I've seen too many of them, but most try to keep their mac as factory original as possible. This one allows itself to be as insane as it could and I would be really interested in seeing Wolfenstein on this beast, that's for sure!

@goeland4585

3 жыл бұрын

You could probably try running a tiny doom port with this upgrade

Man this is AMAZING. Imagine if someone managed to make a PowerPC Card that could fit into the SE/30. That would be INCREDIBLE!! Though heat would definitely be a bit of an issue too.

@g3monster89

3 жыл бұрын

There was one... it was for the 2ci I think with a 66mhz ppc 601 processor and was also a cache slot upgrade so the cursed Mac already has all the pre requisite requirements to make it work

@AiOinc1

Жыл бұрын

Surely there is some way to jam an 040 to PPC 601 upgrade into that CPU socket there

@jnjgerth

Жыл бұрын

@@g3monster89 that'd be one to see

Rare hardware? Now you're speaking my language!

Still more common than RTX 3090

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Truth

@yolozwek_gaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro true

@SimplyAlonso

Жыл бұрын

Quite truly!

@badcatalex

Жыл бұрын

@@ActionRetro not so much so anymore

@weegeenumberone2

Жыл бұрын

Hell even a 4090

From cursed to blursed

The auto setting works by using the add button which appears next to the list box that says default. This add button lets you add programs that when loaded trigger the speed change.

So, is Bolle going to be selling assembled versions of these?

This is a fascinating snip of history. Kudos to you and thanks to Mr. Bold for his work. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

That video card sounds like a good idea to get. Its sad to see, but also quite nice to see your Cursed SE/30 has finally ascended to its final form. It was a great journey.

@goeland4585

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually a cpu card :p

@awsomewe360

3 жыл бұрын

@@goeland4585 I know its a CPU, but near the end he mentions a GPU he could install.

@goeland4585

3 жыл бұрын

@@awsomewe360 Oh! My bad. I was getting hyped for it too! Haha

I've been waiting for this...

It’s a shame that 68k CPUs are getting more difficult to find. Especially 040/060s.

Sean, where would you even PUT a video card in that thing? O_O Seriously wish the original owner could see this thing now.

@Kara_Kay_Eschel

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking that the original owner would be cleaning out stains from their pants.

@FS--ew3se

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kara_Kay_Eschel 😳

Excellent content. I really enjoyed watching. Must be fun to max that Machine as far as it can go with the org mobo. Those add on cards look to be high quality too.

I love the work you put into your videos man. Keep it up.

should insulate the sd with fish paper. Sometimes tape can become conductive.

This was definitely worth the wait

We've gone from cursed to possessed! This thing is terrifying, but it's amazing to see how far some of this can be pushed.

This mac is freaking awesome! I'd never imagine so much great tech could be crammed into that amount of space. :D

@wesleymays1931

3 жыл бұрын

In 2 years, it'll be a techno brick

This is fantastic! Makes me want to do this upgrade to my SE/30 too!

While a greyscale video card sounds awesome, my favorite video upgrades are definitely the Radius full page/pivot setups. The coolest multi-monitor setup possible.

Seeing a processor that close to the CRT which effectively acts as a capacitor for the tens of kilovolts from the flyback makes me nervous haha :D

Oh yeah, I'd be taking a dremel to that heatsink to fit it in. That would totally be appropriate for the cursed mac! Now you just need a SE/40 badge for the case. Can't wait to see what happens with this next!

It's the Mac SE that keeps on giving

Would be super cool to see the video card upgrade, replace the CD-ROM with a DVD-ROM (OR DVD-RW!!!) and watch some grayscale movies off DVD! (With audio out to a set of nice speakers, of course!) And maybe play some video files from a shared folder on a modern Mac 😃 Super awesome video

@gajbooks

2 жыл бұрын

A 68040 would absolutely be able to play MPEG with the decoder accelerator (I have one that does), but sadly DVDs use MPEG 2. It could totally play video CDs though, or MPEG files off a DVD (if the system had DVD extensions available).

Great upgrade!

Great vid! But why have you put on that Apple-Sticker? Have i missed out on sth? Idk but with the oroginal logo it looks better i thibk

@jonasthemovie

3 жыл бұрын

The bondo job was botched.

You have an exclamation mark in the PCBWAY link. Great video, thanks!!

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Ah thanks!

Dam that's fast... Amazing project. About the heatsink you can do like they done in the B&W G3 Power Mac and remove some a part of it with a dremel just to fit

Great video! What an interesting upgrade too, it's gone from cursed to...blursed?

@MistahMatzah

3 жыл бұрын

There are no color CRTs that will fit. They're all too deep.

@TheMalMeninga

3 жыл бұрын

@@MistahMatzah I think you might have replied to the wrong comment here, mate.

i love this video! i love to be able to see this! (please do a follow up, im curious how the auto setting works with the example for why the shifter is there* *no spoilers ;)

How cool would it be if you could put a colour CRT in the Cursed Mac? Make it into a Cursed Color Classic if you will 😁

@kit7une_

3 жыл бұрын

SE/30 hardware wouldn’t really support that unless you’re using an external monitor card

@montypoes

3 жыл бұрын

@@kit7une_ Well, he did mention something about a video card, so who knows 😎

@alextirrellRI

3 жыл бұрын

With the video card a possibility, finding a 9 inch color CRT that will fit and a way to drive it is the key. But yes that would be insanely cool.

@Cr0frog

3 жыл бұрын

What about a 9 inch lcd panel? It would trully make it cursed and would free up so much space inside the case

@kargaroc386

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cr0frog An LCD would have to be handled *very* carefully. The case is designed to look the best with a curved CRT screen in it. LCDs are flat. You *can* make it look better by making a panel that covers the sides, like i.imgur.com/hEYZUGy.jpg

I saw the 68k news website on hacker news , and I didn't even connect it to one of my favorite youtubers!

yessss,was waiting for this long time

I was so excited for this

I'm utterly amazed that you can literally switch CPUs on the fly, on an operating system that never expected to have more than one CPU in a computer. How is it even accomplished? I take it that both CPUs are on (after the control panel loads) and when you switch CPUs it copies the CPU cache and registers from one to the other and then tells the card which one to start sending instructions to? Fantastic piece of reverse-engineering and fantastic original engineering job by that company in the 1990s. Great video.

@gajbooks

2 жыл бұрын

Given that it crashed with a program open, it may just do some sort of funky system reset and leave non-operating-system tasks in an invalid state. Given that the entire OS is co-operatively multithreaded, I'm not sure why that has to be the case.

I had that micron card, it was awesome. It’s only flaw was every 6 months or so you had to pull it off the CRT and clean the connectors.

Wow that's just fantastic!

Great video. Thank you very much for it.

That is awesome. The 605 was a pretty cool machine.

You should just modify that heatsink and use it now, immediately. Either cut it to contour, or just cut some fins short, it'd work. Also, does "Medium" speed do the same thing with the video clip sound issue?

I bought my Mac Plus that very year and a brand new IIci 2 years later. There was also a company called Sonnet which made CPU accelerators. I think they are still around.

I wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to go for a cheeky overclock, with a heatsink and fan blowing in the general direction you should be able to squeeze a few extra MHz out of it, even on the worst versions of the 040, apparently the final revision could get to around 50.

WoW Sean That Is One Sweet UpGrade I Think The Curse Has Faded Away

Just checked the 68k thread you linked to, looks like it went dead at the beginning of February. Is the project still happening? What’s happening regarding availability?

If i recall correctly from my days with a Carrera '040 accelerator... 030 is the original motherboard CPU. 040 Medium is the 68040 with some caching disabled for compatibility with a handful of janky apps that had trouble with the 68040. 040 Fast is the 68040 with caches fully enabled.

I've been running mini vMac with a Mac plus rom and some stuff goes too fast! I've got my system 6.0.8 (mini vMac), then my system 7.5.3 (Basilisk II) and I'm waiting on a Mac mini (2011) to run Sheepshaver for PPC emulation! Macintosh garden is amazing with all the downloads you can get for retro Macs! Wow! this is about the coolest thing I've ever seen! Love old macs. I did work experience at a Mac store when I was 15... The technician I was working with opened up a Mac all in one, can't remember if it was a mac plus or se but he touched the crt at the back and got a shock!

Do they have add-on cards like this for the prior model SE Superdrive at all? Cant find the SE-30 or any of the accelerator cards for less than one lung and a kidney anywhere.

seeing that old website reminded me of the OG spacejam website - what a beautiful time-capsule!

what an amazing mod! did I miss them saying if it was available for purchase?

This is the best video so far!

Loved it! I’m also an accelerator freak. I got a PerformerPro for my Classic, but I could not install it because I’m moving and I’ll have to wait till I set to the new home.

the link to the 68k site for the card just goes to the homepage, is there a better link out there to the article for these upgrades?

The Carrera Auto mode isn’t auto. It is preset, you have to add the different programs to the list I reckon.

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh that makes sense

JLCPCB cameo in a PCBWAY sponsored video. Haha, great 🙂

you should definitely try chuck in a colour CRT in that thing

this is AMAYZING

Hey, did you insulate the capacitors on the scsi to SD adapter so they wouldn't short anything on the back of the cpu card?

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Hah yep, I used an insulating sheet that came from an old laptop hard drive

How the Auto setting works it that you have to tell the control panel with which app it needs to automatically throttle down. That's why you have a list below that with an Add button. You have to explicitly tell it which app it auto throttles with. It's not obvious at first, but the list grays out when you take it out of Auto mode.

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Ohhhhh! Thank you!

Hi! I own 2 sccelerator cards: the Hypercharger 020 and the Siclone si3033, do you have manuals and / or drivers for those cards? Thank's!

very cool that would be a great up grade for my Mac Se/30

Do you know anything about the Supermac Superview graphics card for the SE?

I waited so long for this video!

Are there any more of these cards sold? I would love to have an SE/40.

Im curious if you can put this in a 68000 SE

Surely this could be very intense!

I wonder if the make a lcd screen replacement for Macintosh se

Love that single bit asteroid picture

This is so cool!

I have a radius rocket 68040 accelerator card, and a macintosh iisi, i plan to put it in it, would you happen to know if the extension in the video might be compatible with my original card? I can find the original radius extension but i think it only works with system 7.1, would be cool to try and have a 68040 iisi running 8.1

I installed OpenBSD on my SE/30 around 2001 and then thought about the futility of such an accomplishment considering I had an IBM Power 5 based server on order that would run Suse Linux 11, AKA, a real machine running a top OS.

Most of the 040 speed comparisons I’ve seen have been on Amigas, good to know the difference is about the same on a classic Mac!

Awww yessss. Here it is!

The Quadra 605 was my first mac, got it from sam ash here in nyc...

This reminds me of my 68k dream machine. A seamless fusion of the Macintosh SE, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Atari Jaguar, Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), and so on... Just merged into one machine as if it were always meant to be that way. Unfortunately, the machines are all so different that it just wouldn't actually happen IRL. The only thing they have in common is the 68000-family processor at their heart.

I had a hard disk upgrade for the mac 512 which allowed to connect a hard disk. Since there were no scsi ports it clipped to the buses on the mainboard. Crazy times

You could immediately tell that it was running off the 68040. What an amazing difference.

Great! subbed!

With a 256 color video card you can even play DOOM (very slowly) on a stock SE/30. I'd love to see how this performance upgrade handles it!

Now for an 040 with a faster clock oscillator…one wonders is the 060 is compatible with the 040 architecture.

Totally get that video card!

Amazing!

I wish there was more love for the Mac Plus. Can't find any accelerator cards for it.

can you put an 68060 revision 6, overclocked to 95Mhz in there?

I wish I could figure out how to cram one of my 68060s into a mac SE/30...

Hi, new viewer here. I have a question: What makes this Mac “cursed?”

@ActionRetro

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome! I found this thing already with the paint job, and all sorts of crazy stuff inside it. Check out the playlist! kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZqyJrc2KqbyYZ5s.html

Does anyone know where to find the Control Panel that put a virtual 640x480 screen into memory and allowed the 512x384 screen to be moved all around the virtual screen? This allowed certain software that was 640x480 to run on the original Mac LC 512x384 monitor and I think might work on the SE/30, as well.

can i buy one of these for my beloved iici?

4:53 i have the same tweazers,although diffrent font,and that SONNET e gpu case....

I used to browse the web on an unmodified SE/30. Even using the Lynx text-only browser while dialed up to a university Unix server, it was far from optimal. Thankfully by the time I actually had to use the graphic web in the 90s my college roommate had handed me down his Power Mac 6100 which was a considerable improvement.

Getting more insane every time.

This is such good news. I want one really bad, and I think there are enough people out there who do to go into mass production on this, rather than just a hobbyist project.

@failboatman9689

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, a card full of out of production ICs sure is a good candidate for mass production, except it's not.

@markpstapley

3 жыл бұрын

@@failboatman9689 Ok I'm game, name a few of the out of production ICs that "Bolle" has used then....

Sorry if this is off topic, but thank you so much for Frogfind. You actually gave me a reason to connect my retro PC to the internet.

That's an incredible accelerator combo. Processor and ethernet with space for video -- fantastic.