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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Radius Rocket & Quadra 950 | Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-11-20 22:23:07
olePigeon, sorry I got confuzzled earlier in the discussion, mostly I post stuff when I'm half asleep . . .
I just posted info about Quadras and Rockets in the Radius Rocket Guide/Troubleshooting Thread.
It basically says you gotta run RocketShare for a Rocket to be compatible with a Quadra, confirming what your manual says.
When you got it running you were doing it under RocketShare, correct?
I didn't know that it shut down the main processor. Hmm. I'll throw Macmetex a message and see if he's ever seen the Saturn V software. Supposedly the Saturn V software doesn't disable the CPUs, and lets you use all your Rockets + Host machine. That'd be RocketShare, the reason Radius developed the Rocket was for multiprocessing. They made a lot of money selling them as accelerators for turning Mac IIs into Quadras though.
| Posted by: olePigeon on 2012-11-21 16:31:15
I've figured it all out, I was unclear how the Radius Rocket worked in the first place. So it either works as the primary CPU or as a host machine. I have it working on my IIci. I also discovered that it accelerates your Radius video card regardless if you're using the Rocket itself. Not sure how or why. I tested the video before and after with my Rocket installed, and the benchmark does indicate a difference in performance (even if perceptually I can't tell the difference.)
| Posted by: Byrd on 2012-11-21 17:50:01
As the proud owner of olePigeon's Rocket 33 😀 , what machine would it be most suitable in? I've bunged 128MB RAM in the board.
My IIfx - with paltry 8MB RAM - can I use as purely an accelerator, and access the 128MB RAM?
The venerable 950 - maxed with WGS card running System 7.1 - as a psuedo dual processing 68K powerhouse?
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-11-21 18:11:58
Wow, WHOOSH!!!!!!!!!!! ICBM! :O
Either. really, but that 8MB IIfx really needs that extra RAM and it isn't a Quadra . . . yet! [🙂] ]'>
Fly high, 'mate!
| Posted by: Byrd on 2012-11-21 18:41:20
So, the RAM is definately seen by the IIfx? That machine is quite temperamental (power supply issue), but I'll give it a shot, cobber!
| Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-11-21 18:59:03
When you run the Rocket under RocketWare 1.5 . . . there is no spoon . . . erm . . . the IIfx ceases to exist . . .
. . . except as enslaved by the Rocket as an I/O device, with its own little 6502 I/O minions . . . the Rocket becomes the spoon . . .
< /Matrix mode >
. . . erm . . . it becomes the IIfx, but knows it's a Quadra, with all that lovely local bus RAM on board, hoarding the IIfx ROM, copied into its web of deceit and telling its bold-faced IIfx lies in the "About this Macintosh" window.
< Shakespeare in Love mode >
It's a mystery!
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