WANTED --- Radius Two Page Display driver --- WANTED

[fehervaria]

I have a Radius Two Page Display - with the very rare ROM version 3.3
Does anybody have to original Radius.sea.hqx and the CL_SEA_PL.sea.hqx for the ROM version 3.3

Here https://vintageapple.org/macdrivers/radiuscards.html is only the content available - but the file's links are pointing to nowhere :-( anyway they are for the newer 4.x ROM
I am searching for the Two Page Display card from 1988 with the ROM 3.3

Please, if any of you have these disks or disk images - PLEASE contact me and load up to the macintosh garden (there is only for the ROM 4.x versions available)

 

[jasonbuchwald]

Hi there- any luck? Mine is the rom 3.3 version as well! I did, however, recently find an archive that has the rom 4.4 file, which could theoretically be used to update our roms! I don't have an eprom burner, but I am talking to someone who does. We shall see!

 

[Trash80toG4]

I've got a lot of Radius boards. Their ROMs and Drivers are often backward compatible. Have you tried the 4.4 driver?

 

[jasonbuchwald]

not yet! but I might when I have time! I believe one has rom 3.3, the other 4.1. I'd love to figure out a way to use the cards with non-radius monitors.

 

[Trash80toG4]

Good & reasonable HDMI scaler: Extron RGB-HDMI 300(A)

At @Trash80toHP_Mini's request, a thread about the HDMI scaler I found myself using to do vintage Mac stuff on a modern screen. It works, at least for me, really well and I'd recommend it to other folks as well. It is also not *that* expensive. The model is Extron RGB-HDMI 300 or 300 A. I...

68kmla.org

 

[jasonbuchwald]

Thanks- yup, I saw that, but I'm holding off for now to see what Rom McAdams comes up with. I sent him my se/30 TPD card, he wants to try to make a small adapter to make it work. But...I might try that scaler as well, as I have two Mac SE TPD cards as well!

 

[jasonbuchwald]

Also- does that scaler have BNC inputs? The TPD cards I have for both the SE and SE/30 have BNC output- how does it connect to the scaler?

 

[Trash80toG4]

I've another thread about TPD/SE and adapting that single BNC output to VGA RGB inputs for a multisync LCD panel. Have you seen that one? Pretty much still need the scaler to pull it off even after that I think.

ROMs have only to do with Driver/OS combo support IIRC. Getting the output from there to a clean, crisp image is another thing entirely.

One day I've gotta get all this stuff out on the bench and hook it up again. Maybe if I beat my head on the bench hard enough I can jangle enough of the loose bits between my ears out into a comprehensible report thread?

Doubtful . . .