Re: Restoring a Lisa

[j <jp@theposts.homeip.net>]

I'm one of the guys who started Orphan Technology. Our only product was 
called the ROMSwitcher. This was a daughterboard that housed both sets 
of ROMS, and switched the flyback transformer in and out.

The reason you want to go back to the old set of ROMs is (primarily) 
that the Lisa used rectangular pixels, and the Mac (and MacWorks XL) 
used square ones. So....things look funny (circles look oval, etc.)

There is also code in the video state rom that LisaOffice counts on to 
be there, that you loose with the Mac/XL ROM set.

drop the nospam to reply....


On 2005-07-05 04:28:39 -0700, "Vince Briel" <vbriel@comcast.net> said:

> Low level format on Widget drive can only be done on an Apple /// with 
> special firmware if I remember correctly. What ROM's are you needing to 
> replace on the Lisa and Why? I know Sun Rem had screen kits that 
> changed how the Mac OS looked on a Lisa and also had a 800K floppy ROM, 
> but neither would keep you from loading Lisa OS.
>
> Keep your eye out for Widget drive on ePay and you should find one.
>
> Vince