If you're mostly concerned with the speed of X, you should get something like an ATI Rage or Radeon PCI card.
Any useful links that you would recommend please?
Sure. Newegg has the video card: http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?Submit=Go&DEPA=0
It's $40 USD, but you have to find a PC to use to flash the ROM.
Get these files: http://people.freenet.de/amichalak/flashrm2new.sit
The Sapphire is supposed to run at 183 MHz, but some are 150 MHz parts, and some are 133 MHz. It's hard to complain when the cards are so cheap. Having done more than a dozen, most will run at 183 MHz.
If not, you need ROMs which are set up for lower speeds. I'll post links to modified ROMs when I have a few free minutes.
Thank you very much, I've struggled with my old voodoo3 under ppc linux for to long, they are now supported to a small extent but a ATI would work better under both MacOS and MDK. A 32mb Mac Radeon sells for $20au more than the pc 64mb version, the possiblity of flashing the rom is very appealing. I'll check through the links, thanks again.
Sheepshaver was a shareware mac emulator for PPC BE in the begining and worked like mac on linux. Sheepshaver for nix seems to be progressing well, doing a fair job of emulating a ppc mac on intel hardware. I'm sure it does a much faster job on macs running OSX or the BEbox you mentioned above. I haven't tried it with ppc MDK, MoL works fine.
Sheepshaver was never intended to run any sort of Mac software on non-PowerPC hardware. Perhaps you're thinking of PearPC. In any case, SheepShaver became what is known as MacOnLinux, which is not a good name because GNU/Linux isn't the only system that runs SheepShaver. But Linux eccentrics will be Linux eccentrics...
Sheepsaver was BEos software for the mac version.
http://www.emaculation.com/sheepshaver.php This is out of date as I have OS9 running on intel MDK. I dont know the story of PearPC or MoL for that matter. One works very well, the other just works but its improving.
Sheepsaver is ported to a few different systems, mac nix and OSX included. http://gwenole.beauchesne.free.fr/sheepshaver/files/
L2 DIMMs can be bought off of eBay or elsewhere for very cheap. I got one for my Motorola Starmax for around $5 USD total, shipping included.
Excellent point, I jumped straight to a Gx upgrade which was wrong. Any mac works better with a cache card installed.
Not necessarily wrong, but more expensive.
Anyone who jumps straight to a Gx upgrade is wrong if cheaper options are available, I should have started at the start, not jump so far ahead if I try to give advice.
How much would VM play a part in choppiness, 96mb of ram isn't bad until you install OS9+ then the hard drive starts doing extra work. A extension set to suit video capture and VM off may help a little maxing the ram wouldn't hurt or cost much either, sorry shades of the pci mac list there.
You shouldn't go into swap if you have 136. Heck, even with 96 you should be fine unless you've got extra software running.
We will dissagree on that point. If the mac is running OS9 the system can be drawing over 50mb from boot, out of 96 thats a fair slug for the system in question, my feeling is turning off VM should improve the video capture but some extension trimming would be needed. Not an area I do much work with. You may well be right, thanks for your thoughts.
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