Phipli
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Did you buy it new? Were you pleased with it?Here's a picture of the box it came in, if you're interested. I had one at one time.
Did you buy it new? Were you pleased with it?Here's a picture of the box it came in, if you're interested. I had one at one time.
I found this on a search in archive.org but the download didn't work for me.
This page is more helpful
This sitemap is useful too
Thanks - you confirmed that Hawkeye drivers do work with the Number Nine Imagine 128 II. I wasn't sure.
Here is Hawkeye 5.6.1. I went on a hunt for software yesterday.
I've also attached some older versions, but... Virus check the others because they're not from the official site.
Here's a picture of the box it came in, if you're interested. I had one at one time.
I anticipate it is either/or, not dual monitors. Dual headed cards were very rare until about 2000. First one I know of was a special variant of the ixMicro TwinTurbo (I've not seen one in real life), and it only really came common with the ATI Rage 128 and Radeon era cards (I didn't have similar era nVidia cards so can't say when they started doing it).Also, the card has two video outs. One is VGA (that's the one I've been using to a Dell flat panel) and one looks like a DB-15 but I can't get a signal to any of my Apple monitors. I'm not sure if it's for Dual Monitors or 'either or..' or what. Any ideas?
Did you buy it new? Were you pleased with it?
Yeah - we had a Proformance III, which used the same control panel but branded as Formac - I quite liked the coloured cursor thing! You could also make the cursor massive, but that was less useful.and colored cursors
Yeah - we had a Proformance III, which used the same control panel but branded as Formac - I quite liked the coloured cursor thing! You could also make the cursor massive, but that was less useful.
I anticipate it is either/or, not dual monitors. Dual headed cards were very rare until about 2000. First one I know of was a special variant of the ixMicro TwinTurbo (I've not seen one in real life), and it only really came common with the ATI Rage 128 and Radeon era cards (I didn't have similar era nVidia cards so can't say when they started doing it).
This said, you can easily add a second PCI card and run two monitors. Macs were always much happier to let you use two video cards from different manufacturers than Windows PCs were.
Perhaps someone should make a flashing cursor! There used to be a program that made on screen visuals to show where the cursor was when you pressed a certain key... I forget what it was called. One of my dad's customers used it because they kept losing the cursor.For those high resolutions it might be. I won't lie, though. As I've gotten older I sometimes 'lose' where the cursor is
There isn't any reason to - performance will be identical. They are the same software rebranded.You should do some benchmarks between the different drivers, Hawkeye versus Formac. I wonder if the Formac ones are more refined.
That's... strangely disappointing.There isn't any reason to - performance will be identical. They are the same software rebranded.
I was looking in resedit and there is a hidden dialogue box for selecting a set of image files to rebrand the copy you're running.
Oh, only thing is, perhaps you could experiment with comparing the very newest Formac version, because they go further on than the Number Nine versions (Number Nine got bought out). But I suspect most of the code changes in later versions are for supporting newer cards that aren't the same as this one. Not sure though, perhaps there is a difference. Newest version I have is attached, along with another couple of versions that are slightly more likely to work.That's... strangely disappointing.
What does it add?Thanks again for the help, and the files.
I've tried most of them and am going with the GA 5.9.6.
I don't see any improved performance but there is a teensy bit more functionality in the control panel.
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Glad you asked! I posted the wrong pic.What does it add?
I meant to say, I might have some firmware updates for your card. That might help with zoom on the other drivers. I can see you have firmware version 1.1.0 in the photos, I'll have a look to see what I have on file.Glad you asked! I posted the wrong pic.
I'm using the Hawk panel.
It has a different layout than the others and references the Imagine 128, not just Number Nine.
Most importantly, it is the only one that has a working Zoom feature.
Every other panel I tried, crashed the computer when I selected Zoom.
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