Timtheloon’s A4000cr Alice project

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Hi all I would like to share my A4000cr build with you guys

So here is the spec

A4000cr Alice motherboard (@hese creation) with 3.1 kickstart roms and 16mbs fast ram installed
Cyberstorm MKII 060 rev.1 @ 50mhz 128mbs fast ram
Mediator 4000D MkIII
Indivision 4000D/CD32 MkIIcr with Ratte Auto Switch


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Zorro cards:

Elbox 2mb eflash
Elbox FastATA 4000
Hypercom Plus


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PCI Cards

Apocalypse G4 7410 with 128mb
Voodoo 3000 or ATI Radion 9250
Spider USB
SB128
Pci Network


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Extra is the catweasel not install quite yet which will connect to the Samsung 1.44mb floppy drive with built in USB Card readers

The case is a power computing version of the Elbox case
LG DVD drive
DF1: Sony HD FloppyDrive with power computing XLdrive internal Adaptor
DF0: Gotek in 3D printed case with SD Card internal IDE

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Some speed results

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This one’s for you @fitzsteve :LOL:

A big Shout out for a few members who have made this possible

Thanks hese for the amazing motherboard recreation/manufacture
Thanks fitzsteve for helping with some configuration issues
Thanks
grelbfarlk on EAB for helping me setup the Apocalypse and get it showing the correct memory of 128mb
Thanks dooboos for his 3D print gotek and sd 3.5" bay

 
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That is Stunning, Envious

Cheers TheCorfiot

this is my pride n joy machine

it was a bugger to setup was on EAB till 1 in the morning getting help getting the PPC properly setup

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you may notice a Sonnet in one of the pictures but that will be going in another build now
 
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It's very nice indeed.
I'm still looking for a Mediator for my Tower project
 
truly magnificent!
makes me thinking of reusing my A4000 tower to host my A4000 Alice !
 
Lovely build mate, thanks for sharing. If you can find one get a scsi kit for the csmk2, you should get 10mb/sec synchronous with less CPU overhead than the fast ATA
 
Cheers guys

Lovely build mate, thanks for sharing. If you can find one get a scsi kit for the csmk2, you should get 10mb/sec synchronous with less CPU overhead than the fast ATA

I will start to look these FastATA can be so fussy :LOL:

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one of the part i like is actually the XLdrive pcb but its been through the wars needs a new PCB

need to contact Power computing see if they still have the schematics to make these
 
Cheers guys

Lovely build mate, thanks for sharing. If you can find one get a scsi kit for the csmk2, you should get 10mb/sec synchronous with less CPU overhead than the fast ATA

I will start to look these FastATA can be so fussy :LOL:

Scsi kit for the MK 2 is excellent, I used to run one with a scsi to ide adapter to IDE hdd. They're not at all fussy. Great bit of kit. I used to run an IDE CD off the onboard IDE on chan1 and CF to IDE mounted to the back as chan0
It was great because with no CF inserted it would boot from SCSI and with CF inserted it would boot from IDE but still mount scsi
 
Where's the tissues :oops: :inlove:
 
Give me a shout if you are up for giving me a quick demo at some point fella, I'll buy you a pint at our local :)
 
Real nice machine you got there mate, hope you enjoy it for years to come! Bravo!
 
Give me a shout if you are up for giving me a quick demo at some point fella, I'll buy you a pint at our local :)

When the man cave is done i'll give you a shout, my retro equipment is in up roar at the moment while the room get an overhaul, had to complete this build in the living room (misses was not impressed :LOL:)
 
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