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There ain't no drivers for that card for OS X. 3dfx went out of business and got bought out by Nvidia around when OS X was released. If you're lucky you might get it running as a dumb frambuffer in OS X, but that would be a waste and an insult to such a card.

Non-existent I believe. That's purely a classic Mac OS card. Get the one on eBay that guy was selling?

Got my 10-pack of 62-pin 3 rows D-sub connectors in finally. They fit nicely into the OrangePC 530. Now, time to start wiring it up thanks to @jeremywork

Alright, now that I have a little more time/money. Its time to work on that OrangePC cable...

From what Im seeing and sort of remember, the 8600 came with a 250MHz 604ev on the low end of the scale. The fastest 604e Apple shipped was 233MHz, like you mentioned.

That's... strangely disappointing.

You should do some benchmarks between the different drivers, Hawkeye versus Formac. I wonder if the Formac ones are more refined.

I just wiggle around the mouse. My eyes do catch that moving insect. Like a cat. I think you can set up macOS to 'shake' the cursor, about the same thing but I don't have to set an option that says I'm older.

Yeah, cards that could output two different display were still professional I think at the time (usually had two GPUs on them). I actually saw the dual display ixMicro card on eBay once. I remember the vram packaging was different than the usual Twin Turbos.

For those high resolutions it might be. I won't lie, though. As I've gotten older I sometimes 'lose' where the cursor is :(

Yeah, it was very noticeably faster with 2d than the Rage II in my Powerbase at the time. I do remember using the Hawkeye control panel too. Plus, like has been mentioned, they did have some weird font cache thingie that sped up text (or something like that). I remember the drivers/control...

Here's a picture of the box it came in, if you're interested. I had one at one time.

Just as an aside, I've always wanted to find a Radeon 9100 pic card and try flashing that. You can never find the things though.