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Apple Portrait Display & Macintosh SE
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Yes, the Radius Pivot SE/30 PDS video card, which was quite common in Compacts and also makes for a decent card to drive a standard VGA monitor.
Radius Pivot Card SE/30
Profile: Radius Pivot Card SE/30 video card for 68030 Processor Direct Slot (PDS).
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Yes, but that won’t work in an SE.
Yeah, I'm aware of the solutions for the SE/30 but was curious whether a card existed for Macintosh SE's (to drive the monitor in monochrome).
You need the something on the order of the SE version of the Radius FPD card for any hopes of running the Apple Portrait Display. It's doubtful if the syncs would align in any case. Even if it could work you're looking at single-bit on the Portrait, not GS.
Just linked to my experimentation with the Radius TPD card in the SE in a parallel thread:
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Portrait setup should be much the same kinda rigamarole, haven't played much with that one yet.
Just linked to my experimentation with the Radius TPD card in the SE in a parallel thread:
Radius TPD/SE up and running . . . on an LCD no less!
Still need to get it set up for black on white, hopefully that's only a question of tying RGB inputs together at the VGA end of things, but my LCD success should give hope to others with SE cards dedicated to proprietary displays. After the Adjust in Progress screen dropped away, some patience...
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Portrait setup should be much the same kinda rigamarole, haven't played much with that one yet.
I believe that Radius and Lapis both made SE video cards capable of driving up to a two page display, so some digging in those veins may be useful. However, the trouble with these cards (as often for the SE/30 too) is that the connector may be proprietary, or even something as unfamiliar to our eyes as a BNC barrel connector. And the Apple Portrait Monitor itself has an extremely odd connection port. It can be driven from a standard Mac DB15 port if you have the appropriate converter cable, but they are not exactly common.
I was pretty sure that I had seen a pic of an SE hooked up to a FPD somewhere, and lo and behold, have managed to find the image here: .
You could try contacting the guy on Flickr. He seems to be an SE fan and may know the deep lore.
I was pretty sure that I had seen a pic of an SE hooked up to a FPD somewhere, and lo and behold, have managed to find the image here: .
You could try contacting the guy on Flickr. He seems to be an SE fan and may know the deep lore.
And another one:
Ah sorry, didn't read
As did a lot of other manufacturers. A lot of video cards for the SE were kind of "universal" as in that the video controller was a FPGA that would get the bitstream for different resolutions and timings loaded by an INIT. That's how Lapis did it, a lot of combined accelerator/video cards did it the same way (Mobius, Extreme Systems/Total Systems/*randomword*Systems, Novy... just to name a few)
Radius themselves had three different cards for the SE I think. They all were "Magicbus" cards that either needed the jumper card to attach to the PDS or would plug into one of the Radius accelerators (and I think a few accelerators from other vendors had a compatible port as well)
I've got the Two Page Display card:
The Full Page Display 69/75Hz:
And the Full Page Display 64/68Hz:
The older Full Page card outputs TTL, the 75Hz card while there is no RAMDAC outputs separate sync signals and a level reduced TTL signal to drive the analog channel on the newer 75Hz displays.
The Two Page card outputs a single analog channel that includes composite sync.
The Radius Full Page Display 69/75 card should be able to drive the Apple full page monitor.
@jmacz You should check here.
If you check screenshots I've posted on the garden, you will see that this card should be able to drive the Apple Portrait monitor.
If you check screenshots I've posted on the garden, you will see that this card should be able to drive the Apple Portrait monitor.
I have an SE with a Lapis card, 9 pin. I have been trying to run a Radius FPD with the same 9 pin connection but I have not had any luck. Anyway, here are the pictures of the card and the ports. I have tried to learn what the problem is as I can find no particular software on the original HD that relates to the card. For reference and would appreciate any suggestions from the knowledgable crowd.
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Cruising the fleabay and thought of you @jmacz:
Damn these prices though!!
Sigma Designs PageView SE Video Card for Apple Macintosh SE PVA-SE-PV88 | eBay
I am unable to fully test, as I don't have the proprietary Sigma monitor. But I will stand behind it as working 100%!
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Damn these prices though!!
I would love to do that with all my cards but ... I don't have any ROM dumper :-/
I will ask a friend of mine to see if he can help for that.
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