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Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 13:16:10 Does anyone know what the heck this is?? I am trying to find drivers for this accelerator board, but have no idea what it is.. The S/N is blank, and it has no writing on it that can identify it.. Plus it has these odd wires and orange chip looking thing on the back side...
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-01-14 13:34:36 looks like a cpu / memory upgrade for an Mac Se.
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-01-14 13:35:31 might not need drivers... might be just a pop on and go.
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 13:38:08 well i tried messing around with it, the board includes spots for 2 rom chips, so I have the rom chips in the regular board AND in this board, plus ram in each board.. Should I be removing the ram/rom chips from the main board and only using them in the accelerator? It does boot up but I am not sure how I can tell if it is working
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2015-01-14 13:52:03 Nope, gotta shut down the 68000 at boot. Check NuBus Mafia over on 'fritter and have the Duck go to Gemini+Accelerator at a rough guess. Somebody OEM'd those in 68020/68030 for several direct marketing outfits back around 1990.
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-01-14 13:53:56 that is a pretty good question. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B49Tq8u-p8sKRjhwZ3l6clJkcjA&usp=sharing dl this and run system info.
Posted by: sadmanonatrain on 2015-01-14 13:54:21 I had a board that looked very similar to that. It was called 'Orion' by MacPeak systems.
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 13:56:34 Nope, gotta shut down the 68000 at boot. Check NuBus Mafia over on 'fritter and have the Duck go to Gemini+Accelerator at a rough guess. Somebody OEM'd those for several direct marketing outfits back around 1990. This didnt really make sense to me. So you are saying that I have to keep ram/rom in both boards correct?? No idea what that second sentence means.. 😀
Posted by: uniserver on 2015-01-14 14:00:59 when you run system info, if it says you have a 68020 and FPU installed then you know its working.
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 14:50:16 Yuppers System Info Says Test CPU: 68020 @ 16mhz Test Display : Built-in Video (1 bit) Test Volume: Hard Drive Test FPU: Software Does that mean everything is working?? What is FPU?
Posted by: unity on 2015-01-14 14:53:35 I have one of these. Good info in this thread. I never tried using it yet.
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 14:54:24 Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 14:54:52 I have one of these. Good info in this thread. I never tried using it yet. sweet! Glad to hear!
Posted by: rickrob on 2015-01-14 15:09:29 Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk I used to have a Novy Quick 30 that had extra RAM and you had to use Connectix Virtual to get the extra RAM to work.
Posted by: rickrob on 2015-01-14 15:15:42 You can find Conectix Compact Virtual 3.0.2 over on Gamba's page http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/71more.html
Posted by: miniMOJOman on 2015-01-14 15:43:42 Great, ill play around with it.. Connectix Compact Virtual sounds more like Virtual Ram and not enabling ram, but will check it out 😀
Posted by: rickrob on 2015-01-14 17:14:22 It was , but it worked with on-board memory on some accelerator cards. It's worth a try.
Posted by: Mac In France on 2015-01-14 17:55:04 I used to have a Novy Quick 30 that had extra RAM and you had to use Connectix Virtual to get the extra RAM to work. I do not understand, Virtual ram is ram on HD, I can 't see why to activate real ram with virtual ram ... I suppose this card is for multiprocessing, maybe photoshop acceleration
Posted by: Mac In France on 2015-01-14 18:08:36 Havent gotten more than 4mb to work in it though... still trying to figure it out.. I know I have more than 4mb in both boards... so idk If you do not get the soft to use it, it will stay in a cloud (an old one) the principle is the same as for the PC cards on mac or Dos cards on Ap Yuppers System Info Says Test CPU: 68020 @ 16mhz Test Display : Built-in Video (1 bit) Test Volume: Hard Drive Test FPU: Software Does that mean everything is working?? What is FPU? It says FPU : Software There is a 68881 on that board..... ple II
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