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Xellent30 is a CPU accelerator board for the X68000 series and was manufactured and sold by Tokyo Systems Research Co. Ltd. from 1995. It is equipped with a MC68EC030 CPU at 25MHz and 68882 FPU at 33MHz. This product is intended to have similar speed of X68030 and is available for the following systems.

Xellent30s

Package contents

Everything what can be seen in the previous pictures.

• Xellent30s board
• Xellent30s setup disk
• Instruction Manual
• CPU extraction tool
• Antistatic sheet
• Instruction manual
• Warranty card

DIP switch settings

• Select the Xellent30s I/O port address by using DIP switch.
• Default DIP switch settings are S1 and P1 OFF, P0 ON. (See Figure 1)
• Set upper yellow switches to ON or OFF. ON - UP, OFF - DOWN
• Address space from $EC0000 to $ECFFFF can be used. Please select address that you are not using.
• Factory default settings are $ECC000 to $ECFFFF (See Figure 1)

Hardware installation

The X68000 motherboard is covered with EMI shielding plate, therefore the mounting of Xellent30s must be done carefully as instructed in the following instructions.

Testing the Xellent30s

When you have finished installing the Xellent30s, Your Advantage. Analog RGB, with minimal configuration of the keyboard, turn on the unit after it was confirmed that the MPU is mounted on the motherboard socket Xellent30s. Body does not start, etc., if any, let's check the parts off the power immediately. After confirming that the body starts to start the Human68kVer3.0 disk supplied with this product, “Setup Disk” chk_xel.x in Run. “CHK_XEL.X” is a program to check the operation of the 68EC030 (diagnostic program) is. Then, please follow the instructions on screen.

Register MPU boot selection menu

Initially the unit was powered on, Xellet30s starts 68000 mode. The MC68030 is actually to work, you need a software operation. MC68000, a program to start the user to easily choose either to start MC68030, are included in the setup disk. Register MPU boot selection menu to SRAM following procedure. (1) provided in the current directory and ch30.sys ch30inst.x. The above installer ch30inst.x • • • Select the MPU SRAM resident programs start menu ch30.sys • • • • (2) and type ch30inst [Enter]. Ch30.sys are now registered to SRAM. There is insufficient free space of the SRAM can not be registered. If so, please delete the program without first residing in the SRAM. (3) In this “boot selection menu MPU” I reside in the SRAM. Cursor keys, numeric keys, or you can choose you want to start the MPU.

DIP switch settings, etc., was taken from the instruction manual Xellent30s Systems Research Inc., Tokyo.

* The product's manufacturer, Research Systems, Ltd., Tokyo is.