No it's not mine, it's just a picture, but the specs from sonnets site say the whole thing is only 4MB so those are probably 4x1MB chips.Is that photo from one you have on hand? If so, any idea what's under the green heat sink, and the memory chip part numbers?
Really just idle curiosity, but if the thing under the green heat sink isn't an ender, that card can almost certainly be duplicated.
Suggests there's some flavor of standard video chip under the green heat sink. Hopefully standard, easy to find...
So with that FPGA/PROM we might develop a generic PCI<->NuBus translation setup for any PCI card that has drivers usable by 68K or NuBus PPC?Just like you say, the MP540 is the same thing as the MP340 just without the FPGA to translate the bus interface from PCI to Nubus.
They bot use the same Cirrus Logic chipset.
I get emailed everytime someone replies to a thread I am following or posting about. Any chance someone has the thread responses in their email?I need to test my Thunder/24 against my PicklesXA.
Also, it's an incredible shame that the PicklesXA thread was lost to the outage. In that thread we:
Now that's all lost, including the designer's account, etc.
- Identified the rare card.
- Tracked down its hardware designer in Japan.
- Brought him into the forum.
- Had him clarify the various differences between different BUG Pickles cards he designed.
- Worked with him to eventually locate the otherwise lost to time software & drivers.
Unfortunately, no. This thread was started during the window of time that was lost entirely, so it's gone. I will try to see if archive.org managed to capture any of it.
I'll see if I can get some time this weekend to re-run benchmarks in my 7100/80 this weekend for:@Nathan_A I'd love to see benchmarks. A dual RAM card BUG Pickles is a unicorn for me. I'm also curious if it'll see additional RAM if you just keep stacking cards.
I'll see if I can get some time this weekend to re-run benchmarks in my 7100/80 this weekend for:
I expect I'll use MacBench 4.0
- On-board DRAM video
- PDS VRAM HPV card
- PDS A/V card
- Nubus BUG PicklesXA
- Nubus Supermac Thunder/24 w/ DSP upgrade
The trouble is that the full suite of benchmarks that exercise raw graphics functions, basic QuickDraw functions, and application oriented QuickDraw functions take *forever* to run, and due to discrepancies in available bit depths and resolutions everything needs to be run multiple times to capture the disjunctive comparable sets of results. Made worse still by the fact that back then it was very common for hardware to be optimized for specific use cases. Like a card could be great at 24-bit, but absolutely horrible at 8-bit just due to how the drivers and or hardware have been optimized.
Does anyone have any recommendations on what to limit things too? I was basically thinking 8-bit and 24-bit (where possible) at 640x480 and 1024x768 (where possible)?