Scott Small on Nostr: Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate! This year, I'm starting off the month with a ...
Happy #MARCHintosh to all who celebrate!
This year, I'm starting off the month with a collection of #VintageMac #NuBus video cards that I've picked up off eBay over the last couple of years. It's time to find out...
...which is the fastest/slowest?
…which one(s) are accelerated? (or _pretend_ to be)
…does having the drivers installed make a difference?
…what resolution and colour depth is supported? (Is lowendmac correct?)
...do they support breaking into MacsBug?
…can they boot into Linux? Or do they only work under #MacOS?
The results may surprise you!
Here's how it's going to work. Each day, for the next few days, I'm going to take one of these cards and put it into my Mac IIfx, running System 7.1.1. I'm going to run at least two benchmarks - a full benchmark from Speedometer (so we can see if, say, the video card degrades CPU performance) - and a video-only benchmark from MacBench 3.0. (1/2)
#RetroComputing #68K #Apple #Mac #ClassicMac
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