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Getting a Rage128 working correctly in a Powertower 225 has been a huge pain. most 3D games freeze the system within minutes of play. I read a bit about them, apparently they're a pain, I only ever got it working in my beige G3. April first, gonna shelf that for another few months, time to work...

I regret not getting a Ice card when they were $300 USD.

I have never seen an LC PDS Graphics card for sale. Accelerated video would be awesome on one of these things. Games that say they need a 68040 don't run particularly well on these.

This got me to sanity check myself, looking at the FPS counter in Doom, looking at every detail Macbench The card has 512Kb of cache onboard, I think it calls itself "Backside cache", it was running at 45Mhz, the standard bus speed of the system. I cranked it up to its maximum (192 or...

I wasn't a part of the Mac world when all of this was happening, more so the PC world, and even then more like the super budget pc world. I haven't used a 601, but I can totally feel the problems with early 7.5 PPC builds and something like 8.6. I'm seeing it years later, and I find people's...

These results are kind of concerning. The 604e card is running at 225mhz with 1mb of L2 cache, the 298Mhz G3 with the the L2 cache is much faster but will crash if you look at it wrong, and the G3 without cache tests LOWER than the 604e. Real world testing, the G3 feels like it's snapper, games...

The processor card I have is this weird XLR8 Interex thing, and it took me far to long to realize that one knob is for the CPU clock speed and the other is for the BUS speed. But I got it running at 298Mhz at 45Mhz bus, so it's slick. Kinda wish I had run a benchmark program to show the...

I have a PowerTower 225 I want to do a fresh install of 7.6 and 8.6 on, install an OrangePC car and get it working (The software for them is hard to find), swap the 225 604 with a 320 G3, swap the Twin Turbo out with a Rage 128, and maybe beat a game or two. Maybe Mechwarrior Mercs on the PC...

Preface, somewhat related, I have a few disks with the minimum drivers to get an old Mac or PC to connect to a network, then I have a "website" hosted on a Raspberry Pi that has a downloads section for anything else I may need, depending on models. This was needed until I got a BlueSCSI for the...

I've been having an issue as of late, with my own BlueSCSI. It's on a Quadra 605, card is formatted, known good, single .hda file. Any version of MAcOS 7 seems to corrupt itself when writing files to itself. MacOS 8.1 runs fine, writes/reads fine, but if I install MacOS 7.1-7.6, if I write more...

I have a PowerTower Pro 225, I feel like I haven't really dug into it too much. I put a bunch of cards in it, upgraded the processor to a G3 and messed with it for a week or two, but I could probably do more with it. Machines in the 100-500Mhz range are my favorite, so I think it's a prime...

I've been busy this year, so all major things I've doneare software things. After getting my hands on a 30-inch cinema display, I played some Unreal Tournament 2004. Invasion is my favorite mode, and I finally found out how to add more monsters. So here I am, gleefully blasting Doom 3 monsters...

Level editors for games like this make them live on forever.

They may have changed something in the 3Gs that make them incompatible with old SATA1. I've had issues getting many SATA SSDs working in my PCIe G5. I doubt the 6Gs will work either.

Posted elsewhere, but here too. I've recently been messing with an 8088 NEC V20 computer with an EMS Board, installing versions of Windows 3.0 and 3.1 Betas that still run in Real mode so they work on an 8088. I thought I installed a beta of 3.1 in Dosbox, but when I booted it on the 8088 it...