The buttons are the white and grey ones, so I guess it isn't going to do much for me. Is this the unit where I need the bios loaded from the front flash port? That and thank you for the info on adapter. I doubt I can do much with this thing and will probably be selling it. While it is pretty cool, I would like to see it go to someone who would actually do something with it lol. Cheers. Fred
i think the flashport is a pcmcia port but iam not sure since i didnt check out my unit so much (time is a killer) the most important thing you need is the m2 hardware card or a working full stacked console unit
Hey vespertillio where did you get yours at? Well I found out some bad news. I tried putting my Laptops PCMCIA card into my dev unit and it didn't fit It's too wide. Some good news though is I acquired some dev docs so when they get there I'm going to check out this BIOS loader.
Hey there RPA, I received it from a fellow member of Atari Age. Thats a bummer about the pcmcia slot. I was hoping that would be the way to get it booted up. I still have to find a power supply tho lol.
Hmm interesting. I didn't know anyone else besides justice_is_blind had a M2 at Atari Age. Was it a PM deal or did the seller start a thread in the marketplace? Anyways I still feel confident in the PCMCIA HDD BIOS loader idea. I didn't try to put it in my M2 console, just in the CD drive box. This just means that it can't be programmed with the CD drive box....at least I don't think. Until I get the dev documents these are all just theories =)
could you get a little more specific on what dev documents you get ? i have right now: 3do m2 hardware installation guide 3do m2 release 3.0 manual and in the mail to me is the full 2.7 manual just saw there is a chapter 3do m2 link / dumb programmers guide maybe thats the bios thing must check out later
The 2.7 version from the same guy you got yours from. I emailed the guy after I lost the auction and asked him if he had any other M2 products and he said he had one more complete 2.7 manual left that he was going to put on ebay. He sold it to me for what I bid on the one that you won. If he shipped on Monday then I should be getting them this week.
Ahh well stick around! The more M2 owners here the better. Need as many people to bounce ideas off of as possible.
iam getting a little angry on this type of trades but ok =) you will get your manual probably earlier then i cause mine hase to travel around the ocean just tell us what you get on the pcmcia thing btw. wherent there different type of cards i remember something on the line of pcmcia 1 and 2 ?
I'm not sure what you mean by the first sentence. I do believe that the M2 uses Type III cards but Type I to Type III are all the same width. The PCMCIA card that I used was the same width as them but it was definitely to wide to fit in the drive unit. Might fit in the M2 console though I just haven't tried yet.
there you have to clear which you mean the last picture on your message is of a demo/ intro scene (scifi themed race) which is a 3-5 sec movie and is on the release 3.0 cd from the 3do m2 software toolkit as mpg i can load it up if you want but there was another racing game of which i only have some images no moving pictures some kind of formula 1 game i think oh and i got hold of 2 mags that reported on the 3do m2 prototypes in 1995/6 will scan them this week, they have much clearer pictures of the prototypes btw. was the fz-55 ever released ?
The FZ-55 is on the russian Panasonic website : http://www.panasonic-solutions.ru/bank/terminal/product.htm
nahh with those buttons on the site i would say it fits a atm more and we talked already about them in russia could anyone get a translation of the russian panasonic site babelfish doesnt work =(
yakumo next time you walk by that coffeemachine take a screwdriver and get the m2 out of it so we can be sure :death
