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| Cooking with four burners | |
| Posted by: ScutBoy on 2014-11-16 18:21:48 Thanks to member defor, my Genesis MP is now rolling along in full 4-way multiprocessing glory! I got all the pieces together a while ago, but life got in the way before I could dig up the necessary MacOS bits to install (not knowing initially that BeOS would not work on a disk formatted in OS9), get a CD-ROM driver for my non-Apple SCSI CD-ROM, etc. But now, I've got 4x132Mhz processors running under MacOS 8, and better yet, BeOS5 up and running. I let it run the GLTeapot for about 3 hours today, with no issues. If I would have had more time, I would have pulled out the BeBox and taken a side-by-side portrait. One of these days... 🙂     | |
| Posted by: unity on 2014-11-16 18:23:08 Sweet!!!! | |
| Posted by: uniserver on 2014-11-16 18:25:55 sick sick sick sick  🙂     awesome 🙂 | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-16 18:30:45 Nice...I'm imagining this with four 604ev chips and smiling even more at the thought. | |
| Posted by: Macdrone on 2014-11-16 18:38:53 That's neat. I'd lol a MP classic is machine but finding them for a decent price is tough. Great job that's awesome. | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-11-16 20:20:53 Which mac apps take advantage of 4 CPU's? I assume BEOS does? | |
| Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-16 20:25:17 Photoshop is one of the few I know of. | |
| Posted by: ScutBoy on 2014-11-17 06:04:16 The Daystar software installer had "plug-ins" for Photoshop and a couple of other apps to enable them to take advantage of multi-processing. When I get a chance, I can pull a list out of the readme files. | |
| Posted by: SuperToaster on 2014-11-17 07:13:45 Wow that thing must fly haha 🙂 | |
| Posted by: TylerEss on 2014-12-03 18:44:42 Oh wow, *jealous* *jealous* *jealous* | |
| Posted by: Elfen on 2014-12-03 21:48:06 Very nice. | |
| Posted by: beachycove on 2014-12-04 13:45:23 There is a nice write-up on the machine (though with 4x200mhz 604e) here: www.mause.ca/about/dclick_issues/dc0110.pdf . The article gives the following list of MP-aware software, and it is not as shabby or as short a list as people imagine: •Adobe After Effects Dimensions Illustrator Photoshop Premiere Streamline •Artel Software Boris Effects •Autodessys FormZ RenderZone •Deneba Canvas •Electric Image Electric Image Animation System •Emagic ZAP-Zero-loss Audio Packer •Fractal Design AddDepth Dabbler Detailer JAG II Painter Poser Ray Dream Studio •Image Xpress ScanPrep Pro •Insignia Solutions SoftWindows •LightWork Design LightWorks Renderer LightWorks Plug-in Render for QuickDraw 3D •Live Picture Live Picture •Macromedia Deck II •Media 100 100 Editing software •MetaTools Bryce Convolver Final Effect KaiÃs Power GOO KaiÃs Power Tools KPT Actions Studio Effects •NewTek LightWave 3D •Quark QuarkXPress •Scitex MicroSphere •Specular Backburner Collage Infini-D LogoMotion Replicas TextureScape •Strata Media Paint StudioPro Video Shop •Steinberg CuBase •Synergy International Hollywood FX •Ultimatte Ultimatte | |
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