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by zenxyzzy
Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:50 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
Topic: ROM PAC replica boards
Replies: 5
Views: 69018

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.
by zenxyzzy
Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:47 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
Topic: ESGG External RAM Disk
Replies: 24
Views: 142721

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.
by zenxyzzy
Tue Mar 25, 2025 2:43 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
Topic: sorcerer 2 switching power supply
Replies: 1
Views: 8524

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 ...
by zenxyzzy
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...