DOS on Power Mac

[V.Yakob]

Hi folks,

Last week I received the long-awaited Reply (Radius) Dos On Power Mac card.

There is potential for upgrading: add video memory, replace a processor with support for up to 200 Mhz, and replace the L2 cache card.

In this regard, I have a question for the experts of this forum.
On the reverse side, there are memory chips, do I understand correctly that these are chips (NEC 424210-60-G) of video memory that I can install in sockets?
Now Pentium 133 Mhz is installed here. Who has had experiments with replacing the processor on similar cards? What is better to install to get the best experience?

L2 processor cache for 256 KB is also installed here, I have never seen such boards and did not know about their existence. Can someone show me the lots on ebay or somewhere else so that I can understand what to look for?


Surprisingly, the card turned out to be new, but at first it seemed to me that it did not work, because the standard PC Setup (1.6.4 and 2.1.7) did not identify this card.
It uses its own application.

And also, as you can see from the application, you can't allocate memory from Mac, only setting the memory stick.

This was installed on Mac OS 9.2.2 in Power Macintosh G3 MiniTower without any problems.
I'll probably have to use Mac OS 8.1 to test the network. As I understand it, this application requires OT 1.x, but it will not work with 2.x.

I haven't tried it yet, but maybe someone has already tried it. Will Windows 98 work on this card?
I also plan to change the computer ID with "Wish I Were" on Power Macintosh 9500 to try PC Setup again.

 

[V.Yakob]

I continue to experiment with this card...

Windows 95 is installed and works fine, but here, as you can see, you can share the network interface in the application. That's what I did.

I tried to do it myself without instructions, studied the instructions, tried again and again -- it doesn't work.
Whenever the DOMODI.EXE driver is loaded from autoexec.bat, it hangs.
In Device Manager, the network card driver is marked with an exclamation mark, there is also another sound device that requires attention, but again, nothing can be done about it.

I conducted an additional experiment -- the DOS on MAC installer can only detect OpenTransport 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, if you install 1.3 or 1.3.1, the absence of OT is reported.

There is nothing to do, you will have to take out the card and install it in the Power Macintosh 9500, if this card is made in the likeness of Apple, then you may need older network controllers on the motherboard.

After installing the card and booting Mac OS -- freezing.
Reboot and booting Mac OS -- freezing again.
Reboot, reset PRAM and booting Mac OS -- freezing again.
Freezes in random places. It may seem that everything is fine, and then it freezes.

I had to install the native 604e 200 Mhz processor instead of the installed G4 350 Mhz (NewerTech).
I'll also try to use NewerTech without extensions, maybe it will help. Now I couldn't get to it because of constant freezes.

Success, Mac OS works fine and I was able to safely download the Win95 disk image from AFP share, which was prepared earlier on G3MT.

I deleted the network settings, added DOMODI.EXE to autoexec.bat -- the network works!! Voila!

Apparently, in order to use this card fully, using a remote network adapter, you will have to leave it in PM9500. As a result, it will be a machine capable of running Mac OS 7.5.2 - 9.1, DOS/Windows 3.1x/Windows 95 and BeOS. Maybe +Rhapsody?

The body PM9500 was damaged as usual during disassembly.
I also noticed that there are no images of floppy disks from this card in the garden, I will definitely add them later.