Share your knowledge on these two classic MPCs

By elmacaco Thu May 05, 2005 10:47 pm
That would be so badass but I don't think so...

Paging doctors Mike and Rohan, please report to the operating room... ;)

By mpc3000le Fri May 06, 2005 12:34 am
elmacaco wrote:That would be so badass but I don't think so...

Paging doctors Mike and Rohan, please report to the operating room... ;)


The "boot screen" name is only part of it.

That picture above is from FORAT ... hardly a serious change.

Infact a pretty rudimentry rom dump, re-combine, hexedit, string replace, re-combine, re-burn scenario.

Worth $$$ for the time it takes to do, and of course, knowing how to do it.

Kudos to FORAT for offering this as yet another way to modify the cosmetic of an MPC3000.

A by-product of the 3.14 ROM set version that I re-coded software for is that you get some extra stuff to make your machine unique.

This includes a modified boot screen that makes your machine even more unique. Quite a lot more modified than what you may have seen on other sites.

The "other software changes" are of course more important than a personalised boot screen.

Cheers to Mike for hosting the upgrade files for the "free-to-try-and-use" floppy version.

As some folk may or may not know, 3.14 is only the start.

Rohan.

By elmacaco Fri May 06, 2005 1:38 am
makes me all giddy just thinking about it!!!

By elmacaco Fri May 06, 2005 6:22 am
No, but you know, I'll try it and see what happens.

By mpc3000le Fri May 06, 2005 6:58 am
djames wrote:just out of curiosity, can 60 users with the 3000 upgrade use this 3.14 upgrade via floppy. I'm sure the answer is no, but it does'nt hurt to ask.


Your MPC60 if booted from an MPC3000 OS.SYS file on disk will freeze and display a long winded version of the "sorry but an error of blah, blah, blah, write down all that caused this to happen, etc, etc, etc"... error.

The OS for an MPC3000 is coded for ... an MPC3000 ... not an MPC60.

Allthough an MPC60 and an MPC3000 use an Intel X86 compatible type processor... The MPC3000 is very different from a hardware point of view.

Don't bother trying it.

Rohan.

By elmacaco Fri May 06, 2005 7:31 am
OK, I was really just gonna see what error screen came up, but thanks for the warning.

I in no way expected it to work, it might have been a funny screen tho.