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For European buyers that contact me directly (outside of ebay) I always offer to declare the package value as they wish, with the caveat that I can only insure the package up to the declared value. And, of course, customs clearance is out of my control, though I can supply documentation upon...

Thanks for the kind words JDW. That's a nice comprehensive review. I have some more info posted on my vintage-friendly site here: https://zigzagjoe.com/30Video.html Best bet is to PM me for purchase. I do list items on ebay (and is the best "live" listing of my stock) but everything is more...

I don't know that it's any brighter than stock video as far as pure B&W tones. I did notice that with the Xceed also. I believe it's a property of the video amp section of the neckboard. I would say on average it's probably still slightly dimmer than the stock video. I also noticed that the...

Haha, sorry, I might be a little touchy on the clones thing :P Yes, the neckboard I use is a derivative of Bolle's to be specific. Same basic circuit but bits moved around but functionally identical. Yeah, there are some minor performance differences but the majority of what Mac OS is doing is...

My card (30Video) and Xceed support optionally driving an external monitor while keeping the internal display active in black and white. Internal resolution remains 512x342. Bolle's card does only the internal display but at a higher vertical resolution of 512x384. That's the main difference...

Glad you're enjoying the booster and LCD kit :) I don't recall if you have one of the boosters with the ROM-Boost function on it, there's a switch on the back for that which increases ROM access speed by 2.5x. If that switch is present and you have a third party ROM, you can disable the ROM...

I believe @MacintoshLibrarian had something similar in mind with my card. The middle connector is intended for inserting logic analyzer probes, but it can also be used for a second PDS card. Note that these weren't intended for use in a case so you would need a modified chassis if you really...

Yep. There is a question of if it's the LB or the card, while I function & burn-in test each card for an hour or two during QC there's always the possibility something has gone wrong. So, it's time to eliminate variables.

I already had a sidebar going with this user predating this thread, but I will lay it out here in more detail. This is uncharted territory, I do not have a Synchr030 to test with and only performed some testing with the booster while I had one on loan. I don't recall if I tried Synchr030 with a...

In my experience system info CPU tests are not significantly influenced by OS version (between 7.1 and 7.5.5) as the tests are algorithmically heavy tests of specific CPU traces rather than an application benchmark (such as MacBench) that makes heavy use of Toolbox calls. As a result, I only see...

Actually, now that I think of it, that speedometer version may have come from jag's house... might be why it was missing. I found the image with the Synchr030 benchmarks and some other amusing things. OS versions were not controlled as these are a collection of older benchmarks but it shouldn't...

Interesting. The speedometer version I use is 4.01 verified by version strings in ResEdit, so not sure where the disconnect is as it absolutely came from either MG or MR. Possibly one of their files is misnamed. MacBench is fine for certain uses. CPU benchmark is OK as an application-type...

Here is Diimo at 50mhz without cache vs the booster. These are (old) Speedometer 4.01 numbers. I believe this is after I modified the socket Diimo for 50mhz FPU operation (normally it is 25mhz), not that speedometer is an accurate FPU benchmark. I avoid speedometer these days as it's a mediocre...

Booster is faster than the Diimo (when cache is disabled) as the Diimo has to latch data to/from the card-local data bus. For this reason the Booster is always faster at accessing the system bus compared to cached accelerators. Of course, cached accelerators typically have a ~ 90% cache hit rate...

Original boosters and my V1 boosters have identical to stock audio in Tetris and prince of persia when run under System 7.1. Installing Sound Manager 3 or 7.5 will cause the audio glitches. V2 boosters have correct audio under both OSes. Audio works differently compared to the SEs; The issue...

Here are some comparison numbers using Norton System Info. The Interware design does not implement /STERM in the SE/30 form, so the Xceed cards (and any other) which require synchronous bus cycles will not work at all. There are some additional notes in this thread. I have moved the logic into a...