Cuzza's Sega SC-3000H Nano-ITX Mod

p_o_s_pc · Aug 7, 2009

congrats on that working :toast:

hope the rest goes fine

Cuzza · Aug 7, 2009

not as awesome as chopping up perfectly good video cards with a dremel, but yeah, pretty awesome

Yukikaze · Aug 7, 2009

Cuzza said:
not as awesome as chopping up perfectly good video cards with a dremel, but yeah, pretty awesome

Nah, chopping up video cards isn't awesome, that's insanity :toast:

EnergyFX · Aug 7, 2009

cool mod cuzza!

Easo · Aug 7, 2009

Niiiiiiice...

Cuzza · Aug 8, 2009

Thanks for the comments guys, you always make my day with that.

Now that I know the keyboard works I have ordered the other bits I need

$207.00 VIA Epia NX15000g nano-itx m/b
$20.00 1gb ddr2 533 sodimm
$50.00 picoPSU-60WI
$4.00 IDE adapter for slim optical drive
$50.00 USPS express mail

US$ 331.00.00 total

= NZ$505.48 arghhhhhh I am so poor now

Mark_Hardware · Aug 8, 2009

gee whiz no small order. err, well I mean it is small stuff but, whatever lol.
Looks good, can't wait to see how it all works.

SC-3000-Survivors · Aug 8, 2009

Welcome Back Sc-3000h

Hi!
I'm Francesco the Head of SC-3000 Survivors site

I'm very glad you has started this project, seems really cool...

I must admit that in the beginning I was "shocked" about how you could "hurt" the chassis, but I realized that the irresistible charm of SC-3000 has "captured" your attenton :laugh:

Why not running Mess emulator at the start of the system ? You could rn C64 emulation with an SC-3000, funny!

However you showed a great creativity and I just can't see the time you will post some pictures of the running system

We will celebrate with a beer :toast:

What about some quotation of your project on our site ?

Cuzza · Aug 9, 2009

Francesco, Hello! You may remember I had an email from you some months ago, I was asking how to get my Sega to work. Thanks for your reply, I tried to email you again but your email address kept rejecting my emails so I gave up. Anyway, I tried to power up the Sega but it didn't go, so I'm doing this instead. I hope you like it.

SC-3000-Survivors · Aug 9, 2009

HIIIII

I'm sorry for my email address... I've encountered many problems... but It was nice to know you are doing this project!
I'm sorry to hear that your SC-3000 is dead

but... I think that this project may go futher than one may think!

We have some ideas for the site and the SC-3000 community that this SC-PC can be really interesting

So keep up the good work and go on!

By the way, can we document this w.i.p. on our site ?

oh, I forgot, that video is amazing!!!!! For many people may seems silly but for SEGA SC-3000 survivors it's great!!!!!

MKmods · Aug 9, 2009

Cuzza said:
Thanks for the comments guys, you always make my day with that.

Now that I know the keyboard works I have ordered the other bits I need

$207.00 VIA Epia NX15000g nano-itx m/b
$20.00 1gb ddr2 533 sodimm
$50.00 picoPSU-60WI
$4.00 IDE adapter for slim optical drive
$50.00 USPS express mail

US$ 331.00.00 total

= NZ$505.48 arghhhhhh I am so poor now

LOL, bot have things come down in price......I paid like $300 just for my old VIA Epia PD mobo back in the day.
Excellent job on the wiring and the good deals.

SC-3000-Survivors · Aug 9, 2009

Have you thought about what o.s. to use ?

Cuzza · Aug 9, 2009

SC-3000-Survivors said:
HIIIII
By the way, can we document this w.i.p. on our site ?

Yes, go ahead. Maybe your members have some ideas for me? And running C64 emulation on it, that would be funny. :roll:

SC-3000-Survivors said:
Have you thought about what o.s. to use ?

I was planning to put WinXP on it but I have just installed my only copy of that on my old Socket A machine. So maybe it will be Linux. I have very little experience with Linux so any suggestions there are appreciated.

MKmods said:
LOL, bot have things come down in price......I paid like $300 just for my old VIA Epia PD mobo back in the day.
Excellent job on the wiring and the good deals.

Burn! Well, that's always been the way. Give it another year and I will probably feel horribly ripped off.:shadedshu

MKmods · Aug 9, 2009

I find it hard to believe stuff will continue to get cheaper (HD 4770 for around $100 is an insane value)

I think in the next year or so stuff will start going up quite a bit...

Cuzza · Aug 10, 2009

better spend up large now then!

dr emulator (madmax) · Aug 17, 2009

Cuzza said:
Hey team, here's what I've done today.

Realised the original key diagram was wrong. Updated:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090707/SC-3000H Keyboard connections.png

Managed to answer my own question of how to connect the keyboard ribbon headers, by making an adaptor board. This will also save connecting the floppy cable wires individually. here's the plan:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090707/adaptor board.png

Nice pretty picture. Easier drawn than made though! Went and bought some bits and set to work soldering. I have never soldered a circuit board before so I quickly found my technique left a lot of room for improvement, but four hours later it was done:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090707/adaptor board top.jpg

And the bottom, not so pretty!

http://img.techpowerup.org/090707/adaptor board bottom.jpg

It all works though; I tested all the connections with the multimeter, everything seems just fine. Here it is connected:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090707/adaptor board connected.jpg

Phew, it has been a hard day to produce that, and my room is a mess! I have too much time on my hands. Luckily my assistant is working hard....

Damn, I am totally committed now, no excuses. Things are looking good on the job front so I should be able to afford the bits I can't make.

Peace out
Cuzza

yes my assistant usually looks like that until it's all quiet then he attacks the back of my neck at 2 in morning with a wet nose :eek:

scaring the crap out of me .
have you much to do on ya project?

Cuzza · Aug 17, 2009

All the hard work is done. Basically just waiting on the motherboard, PSU and a couple of other cables and things to arrive in a box from the states. Then I just need to install them which shouldn't take too long.

MKmods · Aug 17, 2009

looking forward to the updates.

I just picked up a Vic-20 from eBay so in the future I will be doing one of these too. I will definitely need your help with the keyboard. Thanks for this thread.

Cuzza · Aug 18, 2009

Well, I guess you could do it my way (the hard way) or this is the easy way

http://www.vesalia.de/e_keyrah.htm

MKmods · Aug 18, 2009

I was thinking of taking the keys out of my new Razor lycosa and using that but than I thought I really need to keep some of the origional stuff....Thanks Cuzza for that link. :respect:

Cuzza · Aug 18, 2009

NP my friend. I was originally planning to get an Amiga 600 and use one of these Keyrah things in it, but I found the SC-3000H and modded that instead. Turned out to be much more fun and unique.

Cuzza · Aug 25, 2009

Well after a couple of weeks of waiting because the company I'm ordering my parts from was out of stock, they are finally on their way. That means in about 2 weeks I should have this baby up and running. Just working on little things right now, like pulling off the funny little stickers that are on the keys. Don't know what they're about but they're ugly and useless so they're outta here.

MKmods · Aug 25, 2009

Im waiting too for parts to show up (Red CF and my Vic 20) waiting sucks.

erocker · Aug 25, 2009

Awesome stuff! Mk, I can't wait to see the VIC-20! First computer I ever bought.

MKmods · Aug 25, 2009

LOL, I owe it to Cuzza. His build looked so like so much fun I just had to try it.

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