Radius Stage II Rocket in a IIci

[KennyPowers]

I finally replaced some corrosion-damaged ICs in my dad's old IIci, recapped the PSU and logic board, cleaned/lubed the floppy drive, and it booted right up. As you can see, he had some goodies installed:



Front-to-back are a Daystar 040 accelerator, a Radius Stage II Rocket, a Radius Paintboard Prism GT, and a Pro AudioSpectrum 16. After copying all of the software for this stuff to floppies in preparation for replacing the hard drive with a BlueSCSI, I decided to play around with the Rocket card a little since it always sounded pretty neat. The software literally has a rocket-launch-style countdown:



Then...it's a mac...in your mac

 

[retr01]

Do you have OrangePC for a "PC in your Mac?" I have been looking for an OrangePC card for my IIci.

 

[KennyPowers]

Do you have OrangePC for a "PC in your Mac?" I have been looking for an OrangePC card for my IIci.

No, these are the only PC cards I have, and they won't work in a IIci...

 

[Trash80toG4]

Set your IIci and appropriate small monitor dedicated to its output next to your daily driver. Rocket dedicated hi resolution VidCard output KVM switched to your big screen. Wombat/USB conversion on the KM line goes without saying.

 

[KennyPowers]

Set your IIci and appropriate small monitor dedicated to its output next to your daily driver. Rocket dedicated hi resolution VidCard output KVM switched to your big screen. Wombat/USB conversion on the KM line goes without saying.

I understood...some of that

 

[retr01]

I have a monitor connected to a switch for my Apple IIGS and IIci. I can share the same keyboard and mouse across IIci, SE/30, and Apple IIGS, as well as my MBA (MacBook Air) with a USB KVM. Each vintage computer has its BMOW Wombat for ADB/USB conversion.

One day I will convert everything to an HDMI switch to my big screen.

 

[Trash80toG4]

I understood...some of that

LOL! Welcome to my world of word wreckage. GRLF has a name for the sections missing from line of thoughts expressed in words, can't think of it offhand.

Under RocketShare you can dedicate extended displays to Rocket and host.
__ Period correct display sits on top of IIci processor shared host
__ Rocket display from VidCard fed through KVM to your daily driver big screen
____ HDMI adapter not expensive, that's how I use my VGA deprived 42" flat panel from 6400/6500 testbed
____ Haven't got BMOW's Wombat USB<->ADB converter yet for ADB Mac playtime on main setup, some day, G4 only to date.

Any clearer now?

TLDR:
Vampire Video has my Rocket propelled SuperIIsi project experimentation halted for a while now. Fix for that is coming, but backburnered. Vampire Video resolution's inadequate for running Rocket in a window and I wasn't able to force it into full screen. RocketWare acceleration's incompatible with the IIsi. Musical Mac installation workaround required for Rocketizing the IIsi, that and honking big component upgrades for Power/Cooling budget.

I could use the Portrait Display, but the DuoDock+ has that held down on the Apple Display Unit. Portrait Display on IIci next to main setup would be something to consider . . . too many screens in the way there as is though.