Re: Restoring a Lisa

[Andy Cuffe <baltimora@psu.edu>]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:40:51 GMT, j <jp@theposts.homeip.net> wrote:

>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.
>


I managed to make a Lisa office boot disk with a Mac plus.  The 800k
drive in the Plus can make working Lisa disks.  It does boot, but the
screen appears as almost random pixels.  It clearly can't deal with
the resolution change.  I'm watching ebay for another CPU board to get
the ROMs off.  I'm also interested in getting ROM images if anyone has
some.  A working hard drive and a keyboard are also on my shopping
list.
Andy Cuffe

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