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SuperMac Accelerator drivers
Posted by: macsonny on 2020-08-05 17:24:22 Hi All, I recently picked up a SuperMac accelerator card for a Mac SE. I think the card is a 16 MHz 68000 accelerator. I’ve added some photos to show what I’ve got. Does anyone have the drivers for this card or know where I could get the drivers? Thanks macsonny
Posted by: macsonny on 2020-08-11 14:53:44 Anyone able to assist at all?
Posted by: jeremywork on 2020-08-11 16:25:31 Leads on this are pretty cold... it's a SuperMac SpeedCard Thanks to this eBay seller we know what the driver diskette looks like, and handily the front cover of the manual shows a screenshot of the System 6 control panel, indicating that the cdev is likely just called 'SpeedCard.' Perhaps they or a future buyer could be persuaded to image the diskette. https://www.ebay.com/itm/0006279-0001-SUPERMAC-SpeedCard-for-Macintosh-SE-16MHz-68000-Accelerator-Card-/142361808825 Other than that, there was mention of one in a collection here in 2007 and another on arstechnica in 2002. It's a long shot, but if you want to track them down it might still pay off... https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=14878659&amp;sid=2c044bb333fded51c4f0c2bcf45f78a2#p14878659 Edit: One more from 2007, post #14: https://www.bikeforums.net/foo/352410-your-computer.html
Posted by: ArmorAlley on 2020-08-11 17:25:48 have a look here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?67996-Levco-SUperMac-Prodigy-SE-accelerator-board-and-utility-software as well as https://www.macintoshrepository.org/23153-prodigy-se-utility-and-driver-software-disk http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer/documentation/levco/p864-levco.pdf
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-08-15 03:56:35 Just got my hands on one of these NIB with disk and manual and uploaded the driver to the Garden. The floppy disk just contains a single 13k file (the driver cdev). I haven’t actually tested it yet (need to install the card still). Hope it works for you! https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/supermac-speedcard-driver-cdev
Posted by: macsonny on 2020-08-15 06:50:02 Just got my hands on one of these NIB with disk and manual and uploaded the driver to the Garden. The floppy disk just contains a single 13k file (the driver cdev). I haven’t actually tested it yet (need to install the card still). Hope it works for you! https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/supermac-speedcard-driver-cdev View attachment 36518 Oh wow - thank you so much. You are awesome! Any chance you can scan the user manual as well?
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-08-15 07:22:09 Sure! I’ll do it tomorrow.
Posted by: macsonny on 2020-08-15 10:14:41 Sure! I’ll do it tomorrow. Thanks heaps! I’m installing my card in the next few s days. Will let you know how I go too.
Posted by: Crutch on 2020-08-15 12:20:20 I scanned the manual but the Garden isn't loving the file upload right now for some reason. if you DM me your email address I will gladly email you the PDF. Edit - got it to work. Second download link at https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/supermac-speedcard-driver-cdev
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