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Wanted Miracle Super Gold card in working order.
Should be original EP1810 chip with original "INGOT21" label.

I working on SGC card clone, I have original green SGC ( refurbished ) but I dont sure about EP1810 original or not.
Card dont work properly and my clone too.
I see the best way - to check the original SGC in working order.

Don't worry - there was only ever one INGOT chip produced for the Super Gold Card so far as I know.

Unfortunately, if a Super Gold Card does not work in my experience it has either been a memory issue, or the INGOT chip has failed...

RWAP wrote:Don't worry - there was only ever one INGOT chip produced for the Super Gold Card so far as I know.

Unfortunately, if a Super Gold Card does not work in my experience it has either been a memory issue, or the INGOT chip has failed...

I have EP1810 chip unprotected, I thought that Miracle systems protected all EP1810 chips from reading. Therefore I thought my chip is programmed by user.

I still hope to find and buy working SGC, possible anybody have one.

Great that you are working on it!!!

We need a SGC + QUBIDE too ^_^

tetroid wrote: to check the original SGC in working order.

Will your check be invasive? If you can ensure your check will not affect the board integrity, maybe someone could lend you his supergoldcard...

Cristian wrote:

tetroid wrote: to check the original SGC in working order.

Will your check be invasive? If you can ensure your check will not affect the board integrity, maybe someone could lend you his supergoldcard...

I plan to check without destroy.
This is good idea, if I can not find who can sell SGC.

tetroid wrote:Wanted Miracle Super Gold card in working order.
Should be original EP1810 chip with original "INGOT21" label.

I working on SGC card clone, I have original green SGC ( refurbished ) but I dont sure about EP1810 original or not.
Card dont work properly and my clone too.
I see the best way - to check the original SGC in working order.

First of all, great job on your GC clone, it's running fine here

While browsing my hard drive I seem to have found the original Miracle System equations for INGOT 20 (and according to Google picture search that version did exist for the SGC). Might that help?

Cheers, Marcel

That would be tremendously helpful over here as well. I'm sitting on piles of 68EC020 and 68EC030 CPUs and DRAM here.

Btw do you know it is INGOT when in fact it should be LINGOT ?

Why ?
Because it comes from the French word LINGOT but as the French uses a lot ' le, la, les and l' ' with nouns, it produced something strange when the English heard or read this word.
L' is used with French words starting with a vowel sound and words starting with 'EN' 'IN' 'AN', when singular. (of course it is more complicated !)
The English just heard or read that there is ' L ' in front of a vowel sound in the French word LINGOT (mixed with the English way to pronounce it ), and considered the French word was logically INGOT, and the French were saying 'L'INGOT'.
But no, we say 'LE LINGOT' (and the 'T' is silent).

Huh. I just thought it was Ingot, because an ingot is a block of gold, and it's a gold card?