I'm gonna see if I can finally make some progress on the color classic for once. Once the tweak is done on the analog board, I'll need to look for someone who can further work on it. Not afraid to get it shipped, and I do have one other person in mind who might dare to comprehensively work on it.
(04-23-2025, 08:07 PM)JackNet Wrote: This was only ever documented in the doping mac guide and this video only showed that page briefly before going with the ol "dremel out the traces" route.
After staring at the sole screengrab on the video of the japanese book shown, which demonstrates that the VGA tweak is theoretically possible via the backplane cable itself, I couldn't make any electrical sense of it after verifying the pinout and where the splices are made (It's mirrored on the page, but still looked overwhelming regardless), so I'll just undo the progress I did to the backplane ribbon and go back to sacrificing the analog board per usual. Would've been a neat bonus to keep the analog board stock, but it's gonna take quite a while to check other resources right now to see if this procedure is somehow better laid out, so for the moment other than plausibly the book (and not without
very thoroughly inspecting the work and pinout), the documented chop and bodge method is the only reliably documented way to tackle this tweak. 2000's was still a wild west era for advice anyway, so I'm not surprised any lick of sane methods materialized and it was just accepted as a given. I'd say this would be a worthwhile point of improvement for future mystics.
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