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- Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:50 am
- Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
- Topic: ROM PAC replica boards
- Replies: 5
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Re: ROM PAC replica boards
i've tuned it a lot since the original design. it clamps the original rompac board really well, and the new ones are mechanically identical.
- Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:47 am
- Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
- Topic: ESGG External RAM Disk
- Replies: 24
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Re: ESGG External RAM Disk
I'd seriously consider throwing a socket on here for a real time clock. this ramdisk makes the sorcerer very capable of running cp/m 3,
because the common bank being a ram-pac is plenty big enough, and the bank switched 768k gives a lot of pages for disk buffers and
ramdisk.
because the common bank being a ram-pac is plenty big enough, and the bank switched 768k gives a lot of pages for disk buffers and
ramdisk.
- Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:43 am
- Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
- Topic: sorcerer 2 switching power supply
- Replies: 1
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sorcerer 2 switching power supply
here's my sorcerer 2 hack of the day: the sorcerer 2 power supply gets really hot, and that's because it has a really big shunt resistor for the 5V supply and a pretty simple design. I've replaced my entire power supply board with this hack, which uses a picopower switcher plus a little 5v switcher ...
- Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:25 am
- Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
- Topic: ROM PAC replica boards
- Replies: 5
- Views: 69018
Re: ROM PAC replica boards
I've fabbed 10 of the rompac's, and built and printed 3d models of the rompac. i wrote it in openscad, so it's easy to modify. the repo for the rompac is https://github.com/cm68/exidy-rompac I'll post a real picture of the assembled beast once the latest one comes off the printer. i've also put it o...