Restoring a 3DO devtower

pics? I don't have direct experience with 3DO hardware (especially rarer ones) but I have seen a fair few PC cases, including those dating to early to mid 90's.

 

Its a full tower but dont really know the make,i will check it out tomorrow if i can find any marks on it.

Here is an old photo of mine:

 

Oh holy moly I am angry now.
I actually had one of those back in 05. My father had found it sitting on a curb, and him knowing I was a computer geek brought it home so I could part it out. At the time, I personally thought it was a computer and remember that I found it humorous how tall the tower was. It was in near mint condition, just it did not power on because the board was dead.

/Someone slap me.

 

OK. *slaps virtually*

Does the casing of the tower is similar to a PC ATX case or it's unique?
Maybe doing a little modding on a normal PC case could resolve?

 

Im pretty sure I have owned something identical (or extremely similar) and it was just a case I picked up for a machine. Nothing unique if I am correct.

 

Probably had a previously unknown prototype 3DO version of Tomb Raider on the hard drive, too.

 

Interesting. Do 3DO use Panasonic "MKE" drives?

 

I think I posted on the wrong thread http://www.assemblergames.com/forum...find-development-hardware&p=742615#post742615 . I guess I had too many tabs open and clicked the wrong one.
I just searched 'AT computer case turbo' on ebay.
I have seen cases like that a long long time ago.
AT is 'advanced technology' while ATX is 'advanced technology extended'. ATX is what has been popular for the last 15 years. Wiki on AT cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_(form_factor)
That dev kit is using an 'IBM AT' style motherboard and case.

I would think the same case is out there somewhere.

 

I still have my dev tower kev. I'll take a look and see if I find any markings

 

Yes. A different firmware than the normal PC drive but with the same hardware (same MCU, same DSP chip) with just a few GPIO pins connected differently to prevent one from swapping the ROM chip (was socketed and DIP lol).

I remember modding a 2x MKE (CR-563) drive to repair a old Goldstar 3DO in 2006. (I had to perform serious modding on the drive the board and replace the drive firmware rom)