I’ll also try to get an image of the trouble screen. I’ll update again tonight after I’ve tested with the new monitor. I’m going to test it with a different monitor tonight to see if that fixes the problem. It looks like there’s supposed to be a blue box in the center of the screen, but it’s chopped up and skewed and all the text is unreadable. Everything worked great until I got past the Debian splash screen, at which you have to press enter to boot from CD.Īfter I press enter, however, the screen becomes distorted. I tried to install Debian via the netinstall CD over this weekend. Please leave your comments, questions, concerns, etc. I’ll have more specific questions when I’m ready to begin the installation process, I’m sure.Īpologies for being a bit long-winded. If I’m not on the right track, someone please let me know. iso files, so I’m downloading them right now. I think I read somewhere that most users don’t need more than just the first three. But I’m not sure which one I need, and that’s a lot of large files to download. Of course, I really have no idea how to go about doing that, so…Ĭan anyone take some time to help me out with this? I’d be extremely grateful!Īs far as I can tell, I need one or more of the. My goal for right now is to install the latest stable Debian Linux release. You just touch them together, and, voila! The computer turns on! I will hook this to the power switch on the SNES case eventually, but right now the wires work just fine. Oh, and see my high-tech power switch? It’s the pair of yellow-and-red wires sticking up. I have to do a bit of cutting on the back panel to allow the ports on the main board to stick out. Right now, nothing is actually mounted in place. I’m still waiting for my SNES controller adapters to come in the mail, thus the conspicuous absence of controller ports on the case. (The business end is currently in the lower left of the case.) There were two firewire ports on this adapter as well, but I didn’t need them so I cut the device in half. There are two USB ports at the back of the board, but as I want the SNES controller to USB converters to be plugged in at all times, I’m getting two additional ports out of an adapter that came with the board. I’m going to cut off the clear bits as they’re just in the way. The ATA device cable I’m using is a 10" round, which fits fairly well. It’s the little black device in between the hard drive and the cable. This requires me to use a latptop hard drive converter to be able to use it with this non-laptop device. I’m using a 100GB Hitachi Travelstar laptop harddrive. I’m using a Pico-PSU (tiny board where the orange and yellow is) paired with an external power supply (think of a laptop’s power setup). The mainboard is a VIA EPIA M10000, with a 1Ghz processor. It’s… a bit cramped, eh?Īll these specs here are from memory right now… I’ll look up more details and / or provide links later. ^ Here’s the SNES computer with the top off. It’s been humid and raining, so I haven’t been able to paint it yet. The bottom half of the case is still the unappealing drab yellow. The cartridge slot where the “Super Nintendo” logo appears is the original color. The top half of the case has been painted. It’s a decent match, but it’s a blue-based grey, where I really needed a red-based to get the slight purple hue. The best paint match I could find was from Krylon’s “Fusion” spraypaint for plastic line. I figured that with some spray paint, the yellow ones could look just as good as new. The grey one, unfortunately, was slightly smashed on alternate corners. Two of the cases were an old yellow-plastic color, and one was grey. I purchased three cases from Ebay for $20 (including shipping). ^ This is the SNES case mostly closed up, with the electronics (sans controller converters) tucked away snugly inside. I have a website in the works for more in-depth information. With the help of some pretty tiny computer components and two SNES controller to USB port converters, I will be able to play games on a computer running Linux, using SNES controllers. So when I heard about the Mini-ITX motherboards, I realized that I could not restore my SNES, per se, but make a new one. Unfortunately, my SNES is on its last metaphorical leg. The SNES, with its two-dimensional graphics and abundance of quality games of the RPG genre, is, hands-down, my favorite console. I’ve always been a fan of the “old-school” games of my childhood. It’s been a while since I first posted about needing an unused SNES for a project, and while I haven’t posted anything else about the project, I haven’t been idle.
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