black and white M2

hehe ok then the joke did work :-D

 

eeeeeeeerhm is it just me, or is the white M2 a little bigger than the black one ? Like a milimetre or so(maybe even a centimeter) ?

 

Interesting, yeah, I remember seeing them up there. In fact, I bought an Aurora Server from him that came out of Interplay as well. I have a buddy dumping the hard drives since it's a DEC Alpha running a DEC Alpha version of NT 4.0. He sent me a list of what he has pulled, looks like there might be some nice goodies in there.

 

got a document scanner from him i hope the m2 documents fit in so i can create a pdf of it automaticly

@wolverrine hmm thougt that my self when i photographed them but i think now they are the same

 

Do you mind if I ask how much you paid for those two beauties?

Also, is there any estimate on how many of the black prototype M2's were made? This is actually the first picture of a non-dev M2 unit I've seen, that did not come from a trade show or a magazine.

To further indulge my curiosity, are these things fully backward compatible with 3DO software? And is there any way to play these Konami arcade games on them?

 

M2's can not play 3DO games unfortunately. Would have been really cool if they doubled the resolution and smoothed out the textures.

We might be able to play the arcade games but we would need a BIOS loader first. Otherwise you can't do much of anything.

 

So how many games were actually completed for the M2 home system? Is "D no shokutaku 2" 100% complete and playable?

 

My god, this is the prettiest thing I've seen in a while. ;_;

Which arcade games could work on this thing? And is the BIOS hard to get or to load on it?

 

I think only 4 games were made for the Konami M" Arcade board, due to lack of success. The most notable being Polystars. There's also Battle Tryst, a mediocre 3D fighter, and two light gun games IIRC.

 

Last I remember there were 3 M2 games, excluding D2, that were in development. I'm thinking their betas still exist somewhere and will probably work on those retail M2 models.

 

it where more then 3 games... even the developers of diablo had a game in the pipe some kind of sports game i think football or rugby whatever the diference there is (3do financed it and with part of the money they hovered over to develop diablo =)

 

Well, I finally managed to get one of my M2 Development Boards (Rev. H) up and running. The board is one of two I bought off Ebay from a guy called Ray, who apparently had a field day at the Interplay auction and bought a ton of M2 stuff for resale (as well as Nintendo and Sega Dev boxes and an Alpha-based workstation - I also bought a Katana minitower fromhim. Good seller, overall.)

Anyway, the only Nubus-based Mac I could get is an ancient Quadra 650, with a 68040 CPU running at 33MHZ, 24 MB RAM and a minuscule HD. The machine has no CD-ROM, which made it difficult to install the 3DO software, though not impossible (I'm a long-time mac user, and had an old, external Syquest 135 HD handy. Just copied some key CD files to it, and I was up and running.)

Because of limited HD space I was only able to install the debugging package, not the development station package (version 2.7). After installing the software, I inserted the card into the middle Nubus slot, closed up, booted up, fiddled with the machines Virtual Memory and 32-bit addressing settings (isn't MacOS 7.X quaint?) the debugging software finally ran... a window came up, and the lovely M2 card responded "M2 alive..." followed by a bunch of system status stuff. (I'll post some pictures later.) It reports cpu and bus speed as 66mhz and 33 mhz, respectively.

Now I need to get a composite monitor to actually see the card's output (which according to the manuals should be the color test pattern seen in an Ebay auction display a couple of months back), and eventually try to get some stuff up and running, hopefully.

The debugger lets you select between what I assume is a debugger ROM and one off the M2 Memory Card (which means I would have to hook up the white drive unit to the dev card to use that - there is a memory card that was included with that, but I always thought it was a blank.

 

That would be awesome if you could post somep ics up. I would love to see some.

 

Zappenduster has a bunch of pics of mine but I'm not sure if he ever put them up on his site.

 

:happyhap: the emoicon says it all lol. I almost won a M2 Dev kit on ebay..>_< lost it at the last minute $10 over what I had :angry

 

That would be incredibly sweet. I would donate some money for it if need be.

 

It'd be great to have a dedicated M2 site.

 

just was 2 weeks in the dominicanian republic and came back today with 10hours of flight experiences (for each way =) so sorry that i didnt had time to put them up on a page will be doing it later this week when no alcohol is left in my blood anymore =)

irata which kind of screen did you use ? normal pc screen with adapter to the mac or a real mac screen since i didnt had much luck with a adapter =(

 

M2 Dev System

I used an ancient, true beige-Mac monitor (VGA adapters don't work too well for these old Macs.)