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Headless eMac
« on: October 21, 2011, 07:33:34 AM »
Aside of low Graphical Memory, my only real gripe with using MorphOS on an eMac is the crappy crappy crappy monitor which displays WAY to freaking dark, so much so that even boosting the brightness and what not does nothing to improve my movie watching experience, though it does manage to give me an instant head ache.

So I'm considering this at the moment, would be a fun project if it ain't any more difficult than it looks here.

Has anyone tried this?

http://www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com/eServer/
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Re: Headless eMac
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2011, 08:02:33 PM »
I'll look for those pots...

In the mean time I think this would be one of those projects only worth doing for the fun of it. Obviously I'd rather have a Power Mac or a Mini with 64Mb of video RAM, but if I could re-case this, I'd consider keeping it and then later just registering a second copy of MorphOS for another Mac.

My problem at is finding connectors that plug into the eMac mother board so that I can make some adapter cables.
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Re: Headless eMac
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2011, 07:56:31 PM »
So should I just use solder to connect all the pins that should be GND, 12v, etc. Together then solder the corresponding cable to those points?
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Re: Headless eMac
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2011, 08:08:40 PM »
So here is my work in progress...

http://www.amiga.org/forums/album.php?albumid=146

Rather than re-type my problems I'll just let you read them here:

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8109&forum=11
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Re: Headless eMac
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2011, 06:47:26 AM »
Success, photos and how to coming soon! :)
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