I've bought myself a Sharp X68000 sy as a 40th birthday gift to myself!

Being the way that I am, I've done a boatload of reading about what the best games are, what operating systems exist, and what modern homebrew projects exist as far as interfaces, adaptors and expansions. It's an active scene!!

But I'd like to hear from the BBSphere, who here has an X68000? What's your hot tip? What do you recommend checking out?

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I've bought myself a Sharp X68000 sy as a 40th birthday gift to myself!

Being the way that I am, I've done a boatload of reading about what the best games are, what operating systems exist, and what modern homebrew projects exist as far as interfaces, adaptors and expansions. It's an active scene!!

But I'd like to hear from the BBSphere, who here has an X68000? What's your hot tip? What do you recommend checking out?

Crazy jealous - thats one of my crown computers to get one day. I've heard about people importing them from Japan...

You gonna do any videos on it, or writeups? At any rate - hope yer enjoying it man. W0wsers.



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But I'd like to hear from the BBSphere, who here has an X68000? What's your hot tip? What do you recommend checking out?

Lucky you, I am jealous. I do not have an X68000, however I do know that computer had the best port of Street Fighter II

Lloyd (neoshock) sysop @ Classic Computing BBS
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You gonna do any videos on it, or writeups? At any rate - hope yer enjoying it man. W0wsers.

That's the plan! Predictably it didn't fire up right away, but there are signs of life. I've ordered a bunch of capacitors and stuff to restore it, so that'll be a few livestreams/videos easy! :)

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That's the plan! Predictably it didn't fire up right away, but there are signs of life. I've ordered a bunch of capacitors and stuff to restore
it, so that'll be a few livestreams/videos easy! :)

Awesome - pretty sure I'm subbed and will keep an eye peeled. :P



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Awesome - pretty sure I'm subbed and will keep an eye peeled. :P

Last week I began the task of recapping, but also took the opportunity to probe around with the ol' oscilloscope.

I've verified the CPU is good, the clock crystals all work, and the ROM BIOS is working at least to an extent.

Something is halting activity, even though the CPU comes out of, and remains out of reset. The 68000 itself has some other signals that can cause this, related to how the CPU can release the bus to peripherals (e.g. when you use accelerators in Amigas).

I was talking about it with some of the gurus at our local retro meetup last night. He isn't familiar with X68000, but is very familiar with the CPU from troubleshooting Amiga systems, and gave me some things to explore next.

At present, all signs point to a busted logic chip, or a broken solder joint or trace somewhere Maybe a discrete transistor.

I'm hopeful! I'll be doing some Youtube uploads once I get further along, and will definitely post updates on here!

Stay tuned! :D

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Awesome - pretty sure I'm subbed and will keep an eye peeled. :P

Last week I began the task of recapping, but also took the opportunity
to probe around with the ol' oscilloscope.

I've verified the CPU is good, the clock crystals all work, and the ROM BIOS is working at least to an extent.

Something is halting activity, even though the CPU comes out of, and remains out of reset. The 68000 itself has some other signals that can cause this, related to how the CPU can release the bus to peripherals (e.g. when you use accelerators in Amigas).

I was talking about it with some of the gurus at our local retro meetup last night. He isn't familiar with X68000, but is very familiar with the CPU from troubleshooting Amiga systems, and gave me some things to
explore next.

At present, all signs point to a busted logic chip, or a broken solder joint or trace somewhere Maybe a discrete transistor.

I'm hopeful! I'll be doing some Youtube uploads once I get further
along, and will definitely post updates on here!

Stay tuned! :D

Will be watching...



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Will be watching...

Project is on hold for a little while, as I'm moving house. But to provide an update: I was able to verify the integrity of the ROMs and the CPU. The interconnecting ribbon cables between the motherboard and IO board seems OK, but the connector on the IO board side may be sketchy.

I've bought one of these RasPi Pico based logic analyzers to try out. 24 channels per unit, daisy chain-able, up to 100MHz, plenty for this system!

https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer

Once I'm set up in my new place, I'll have a better workspace to lay everything out and get stuck back into it.

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