[q]What's the best NuBus video card?
I'm looking for a really nice card for my Q840AV, and found a page http://www.lowendmac.com/macdan/2k1010cl.html that I thought would answer my question, but the story has been removed. So now I'm asking this list for advice, since I couldn't find it in the archives. The 840 only supports 2MB VRAM itself, so I was wondering if there is one that supports 4, 6, or 8 MB and fast video. I don't need any special I/O, just a normal monitor. Thanks, Tim -- Tim Larson, Webmaster Skin Specialists - LovelySkin.com 402.334.SKIN For a more beautiful you, surf us! -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
[q]Re: What's the best NuBus video card?
On 2/12/2004 11:17 AM, Powermac felt like writing: I think the fastest boards were the ones made by Radius for the last nubus macs (Radius Thunder IV Gx 1600) since by that time they were one of the few companies left. The built in video is generally faster then anything you can plug into a slow nubus slot, but you are limited to 2mb of vram. Since the 840AV machine has built in DSP's finding a video card with dsp's (the radius I mentioned) would probably be a waste of time (and doesn't work with os 8.x I believe). I have an inexpensive Supermac Thunder 24 (Radius purchased The speed of Nubus hadn't crossed my mind. Good point. Any rough ideas on how much speed one gets from DSPs? Too bad there isn't a card that would just add VRAM slots. Has it been confirmed that the 840 can't use VRAM chips larger than 256k? Just because Apple didn't certify it doesn't mean it won't work; witness the SE/30 and 16MB SIMMs. I am using MacOS 7.6.1 and NetBSD on my Quadra. I probably should have mentioned that. Supermac and rebadged some cards I believe) board in my 950 system that allows for high resolution video (has 3mb+ of memory?) a.. 640x480 up to 24-bit b.. 832x624 up to 24-bit c.. 1024x768 (at 75 Hz) up to 24-bit d.. 1152x870 up to 24-bit I suppose I could reverse all these numbers to figure out how much RAM it must have, but it's going to be awfully tedious to do this for all the cards I find online. (Seems to be 3MB if my math is right.) Interesting that video cards used to be sold by the res/color modes they supported, and now they're simply sold by how much VRAM is onboard. Maybe my best bet is to just make sure I have my VRAM maxxed out. I don't know if hunting/paying for a slow 3 or 4MB card is going to be better than the fast 2MB I could have otherwise. Tim -- Tim Larson, Webmaster Skin Specialists - LovelySkin.com 402.334.SKIN For a more beautiful you, surf us! -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
[q]Re: best games for Quads (was best chess program)
On 2/12/2004 7:51 PM, David and Chie Lee felt like writing: On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:20, Matthew McNeil wrote: There are some great games on my Quadra. Some of my favs: 1. Snood 2. Abuse 3. Hearts Deluxe 4. Maelstrom That was a great game. Some day I'll pay the shareware fee, I promise! 5. Chrial 0. Glider 0.5 Marathon (the original, not II or Infinity - they need the PPC) Hmm, I'm pretty sure I remember playing all three on my C650 before I bought my G3. It sticks in my head because I was running out of drive space (230MB), so had to uninstall the Marathon I was playing in order to install a different one. SimCity 2000 was good too. Tim -- Tim Larson, Webmaster Skin Specialists - LovelySkin.com 402.334.SKIN For a more beautiful you, surf us! -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
