Greetings all...new X68000 owner here.

So I picked up a nice looking CZ-601 (ACE) that is basically a paperweight.

After researching this forum and other boards, I have re-capped the PSU completely and the CZ-601 is still dead.

What I'm wondering, since I'm new to the X68000, is what is the expected behavior of a working system on power on?

I'm guessing with the hard power switch on (on the back), the POWER LED on the front of the case should turn red, and the fan stays off.

When you press the soft power, I'm guessing the POWER LED on the front of the case turns green and the PSU fan comes on.

Can anyone confirm this is true?

As for troubleshooting the PSU, I'm also guessing that one of the +5v wires (orange?) to the bottom board (where the soft power switch is) should always be around +5v even if the PSU is hard powered on, but not connected to anything as the board needs +5v for the soft power.

Thanks!

I know someone who uses a BenQ BL702A at 15khz with the x68000. A little bit chopped at the bottom, but it does do 15khz.

I bought a Dell after seeing it mentioned on the amiga list, only to find that it didn't do 15khz 

No, you can't mount HDD images in any way. [edit] You can't mount physical drives either.

Yes you can write floppies natively, details in the link at the bottom. To write DIM images you need DIFC in addition to 9scdrv mentioned in the wiki article.

Link

Hello all,

Sorry for reviving this old thread, but didn't want to ask a question that has been asked before.

New member here, expecting my first X68000 ACE HD any day now. It comes already with a SCSI2SD installed and with loaded SD card. Still I was wondering the following, related to below quote. Is managing an X68000 HDD on a PC only possible via an image file in the multiple ways described in the tutorial(s)? Or can I, just like I do with my Amigas, put the SD in a USB card reader and mount that as a X68000 HDD in an emulator on Windows?

Quote from: cr4zymanz0r on June 15, 2014, 02:44:07 PM

Is there a reliable way to edit this image from a PC to add more games/files to it?

Pretty straightforward. transfer though Disk Explorer gave me lot of errors.
So i mounted the image with XM6, installed games/transfered from old image/whatever (Gotta love "No Wait(VM)"), raw image transfer to x68000 SD/CF/HDD with winamge or something like that.. That's it.

Other question: Are there tools on the image for dumping floppy disk image files to real floppies natively from the X68000? So my question above would also be about copying floppy images to the HDD image

Any news on a v5 image maybe?

Actually, this raises a question about arcade monitors. “Stock” japan market trisync monitors will be fine, but has anyone tried it with aftermarket chassis like Wei-ya? I had a monitor upgraded to trinsync with a wei-ya chassis and Chihiro wouldn’t sync with it, it wasn’t well documented but it was a known incompatibility.