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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.

Xellent30s

What is shipped

The warranty card 1 each mylar sheet for protection of our loyal MPU LSI operation manual extraction tool Xellent30s Xellent30s board setup disk that is not what ships with the photograph above.

DIP switch settings

On the board (see photo board) Select the I / O port address for the internal settings of the DIP switches on Xellent30s. DIP switches for setting the P1 of S1, is P0. (See Figure 1). ON, OFF, ON by setting the upper projection of yellow at the bottom is turned OFF. You can set the port area has become the space of $ ECFFFF from $ EC0000, set the port area are not using. In addition, the product shipped, has $ ECC000 ~ $ ECFFFF. (See Figure 1).

Body X68000 (motherboard) attached to the X68000 outer cover and remove the motherboard also has covered shield. Thus, the mounting Xellent30s URL, our “Shinsho dismantling X68000” See's do it carefully.

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.