Video out SE/30 to VGA or HDMI

[amedeo_68k]

Hi, do you think it is possible to grab the board video out from a compact Mac and convert it to standard VGA ?
On J12 there are HSYNC/VSYNC/VIDEO. It should be possible to convert to VGA… I guess…
ideas ?
Thank you

 

[cheesestraws]

You might find this blog post useful:

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[rjkucia]

Depending on your needs, you can use a RaSCSI to emulate a video adapter:

PowerView SuperView

PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS. - Pi...

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It's not built in to the main branch yet, and I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it should work

 

[BlueBoy]

Adrian Black from Adrian’s Digital Basement on YouTube posted a video a while back on using a device called RGBtoHDMI to get video from a Mac Classic and convert it, believe it or not, to HDMI. It should work exactly the same for any B&W compact Mac if you tie into the correct signals.

 

[amedeo_68k]

Cool, thank you

 

[nottomhanks]

I have the Radius Pivot IIsi DB15-VGA-HDMI output going on. Works really well!!

 

[Megaheinz]

Depending on your needs, you can use a RaSCSI to emulate a video adapter:

PowerView SuperView

PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS. - Pi...

github.com

It's not built in to the main branch yet, and I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it should work

Did anybody got this working on a Macintosh se/30? When I try to install the drivers, it says no compatible hardware found. When I check with SCSI Probe, I can see the radius. But no chance for installing the drivers

 

[rjkucia]

I still haven't tried it on mine - it sounds like it needs some reworking before they'll move it into the main branch, and I haven't bothered to switch branches to try it

 

[micheledipaola]

Did anybody got this working on a Macintosh se/30? When I try to install the drivers, it says no compatible hardware found. When I check with SCSI Probe, I can see the radius. But no chance for installing the drivers

Is the Raspberry connected to an external screen when you start the powerview service there? I guess It should be... I made it to have it working yesterday - now I have a second screen in a corner / portion of an old HP 1600x1200 LCD. It doesnt seem to change size tough, even if I select portrait screen in the driver dialog, and it doesnt get to fullscreen.

On the other side, adding the powerview feature kills the web interface of rascsi and you can only configure it via SSH -so not sure if this is worth keeping yet, probably not ready enough.

 

[Megaheinz]

Thanks, I could live without the web-ui, since I am a linux admin, I don't care using the terminal, did you do that on an SE/30? Which System version you are on? Which driver for the powerviev? Thanks in advance

 

[micheledipaola]

Thanks, I could live without the web-ui, since I am a linux admin, I don't care using the terminal, did you do that on an SE/30? Which System version you are on? Which driver for the powerviev? Thanks in advance

Yes, SE/30 with Bolle accelerator .
I tested it on a System 7.5.5 installation, using Powerview driver recommended on the GitHub page (It says control panel v. 1.01). Now I am planning to test it on 7.5.3 and maybe other flavors of System 7.x too.

 

[Megaheinz]

Ok, let's see. I try it now on 7.1, since I have no luck with 7.5.5. I can see the GPU in all known SCSI monitoring tools, but all 3 drivers I find complain about no fitting hardware installed

 

[Megaheinz]

Nope, still doesn't work. Now I. will reset my pi and try again

 

[micheledipaola]

Nope, still doesn't work. Now I. will reset my pi and try again

Sorry I forgot! When you open the PowerView install, it will not recognize the card but if you go to Customize Install, you can handpick Powerview software and install it anyway - then it will work

 

[Megaheinz]

I try now, let's see. Thanks

 

[Megaheinz]

Do, no luck with my se 30, can't activate it, will probably try on one of my other machines

 

[micheledipaola]

Sorry to hear... but anyway I went back to the main branch, I will give it a shot in a few months

 

[Megaheinz]

Will do the same, will get an Apple Color Classic today or tomorrow. Enough Color for me ;-)
But thanks for your help