Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 03:08:10 AM
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 03:08:10 AM
If by chance someone wants to part with one, I'd be interested. I'd really like to hook up a logic analyzer and see about cloning it.
Thanks,
Brian
Thanks,
Brian
Title: Re: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on August 07, 2014, 01:51:54 PM
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on August 07, 2014, 01:51:54 PM
Quote from: "barcher174"If by chance someone wants to part with one, I'd be interested. I'd really like to hook up a logic analyzer and see about cloning it.
Thanks,
Brian
Hello Brian: I have one I paid $600 for , they retailed at $695 .... I'm willing to loan it to you, if you cover shipping as I think you would be able to reverse engineer it . It doesn't look that complicated and I'm thinking the parts inside the box would may be run $20 a hundred at the most as it looks like Apple rom chips on a pcb. It would be cool to make a few of them. I'll see if I can track down the original developers and ask permission but so much time gas passed it's like abandon ware. Best regards Rob
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 03:18:54 PM
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 03:18:54 PM
If anyone else has one I'd prefer to shoulder all of the risk. Otherwise, yes Rob, I'll take you up on your offer.
I'm not entirely sure what a fair price is but I'm willing to put up $700 for the device and a free clone if I'm successful.
Thanks,
Brian
I'm not entirely sure what a fair price is but I'm willing to put up $700 for the device and a free clone if I'm successful.
Thanks,
Brian
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: mikeboss on August 07, 2014, 04:25:17 PM
Post by: mikeboss on August 07, 2014, 04:25:17 PM
Quote from: "barcher174"I'm willing to put up $700 for the device
wow, that would be quite a lot of money.... I sure didn't pay that much for mine.the box was developed in switzerland (I am living in switzerland) and I was in contact with one of the developers involved back then. unfortunately at some point he just stopped responding to my e-mails... he mentioned that there might be some complete DayDream boxes in the basement as well as blueprints etc. fun fact: I own one of the cubes they used to develop the DayDream!
EDIT
it was in April 2012 when I exchanged a few e-mails with Andy Grawehr of Quix.
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 04:42:46 PM
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 04:42:46 PM
From the images I've seen I don't imagine this is complicated from the hardware side. I'm going to guess there is an initial handshake of some kind followed by a dump of the ROMs to memory. With modern dev boards I think we can make short work of this one. I don't think this device is in any way worth that much money, but I'd like to entice somebody out of one while I have the bandwidth to look into it.
--
Brian
--
Brian
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: mikeboss on August 07, 2014, 05:02:01 PM
Post by: mikeboss on August 07, 2014, 05:02:01 PM
do you still have working MO drives? I would be interested in a trade maybe. I own three (one external with the canon-SCSI board) dead optical drives. I'm willing to part with all dead drives plus the DayDream for two working drives. what do you think?
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 05:24:12 PM
Post by: barcher174 on August 07, 2014, 05:24:12 PM
I only have my personal drive left. It's very likely I can get 2 working drives out of your 3 and the spare parts I have left. If you're willing to wait for the turn-around time (whatever time in shipping + 2 weekends to do it), I can do the repair on them and send you 2 back.
--
Brian
--
Brian
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on August 07, 2014, 06:04:49 PM
Post by: Rob Blessin Black Hole on August 07, 2014, 06:04:49 PM
I will sell you mine for $700 actually $695 and a clone sound good . That trade sounds good for you. It is a really cool app as the NeXT actually boots up as a Mac showing how close in Architecture it was to the Quadras .
A rumor I heard is that someone had one of the MaC 601 or 603 PPC upgrades running on a NeXT but I've never seen it . I have paid less for DayDreams as well through the years , so it would be cool to have a clone solution , if you wind up needing a 2nd one I'll still loan it to you.
I actually bought a quadra and painted it black and was going to try and install NeXT on it , I'm guessing I would need a NeXT rom dongle though lol.
Let me know if I can be of any help !
A rumor I heard is that someone had one of the MaC 601 or 603 PPC upgrades running on a NeXT but I've never seen it . I have paid less for DayDreams as well through the years , so it would be cool to have a clone solution , if you wind up needing a 2nd one I'll still loan it to you.
I actually bought a quadra and painted it black and was going to try and install NeXT on it , I'm guessing I would need a NeXT rom dongle though lol.
Let me know if I can be of any help !
Title: WTB: Daydream ROM box
Post by: pentium on August 11, 2014, 10:17:40 AM
Post by: pentium on August 11, 2014, 10:17:40 AM
I should of never sold my daydream kit back in 2007....
