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This is a good point; there *were* lots of "2.5D" games that used the FPU. Also, yeah, if you're doing a lot of PostScript, then various DTP apps will do it much faster with the FPU! Good catch!

You will see two differences: Software that requires a FPU will be able to run, when it could not run before. Software that falls back to FPU emulation will run much faster in its FPU-bound code. Note that there is not very much software that fits into either category. Certain Photoshop...

I don't believe anyone has tried it; in principle, it could work. The biggest issue you will encounter is physical space; the IIsi NuBus adapter fits in a IIsi. The difficulties you will have will be similar to the ones I had installing a IIsi Daystar adapter into the SE/30...

The AWS 95 Update was a CDROM-based update, not one of the small floppy-based ones. It was well over 10 years ago now, but it ran fine on my SE/30. Is it hard to find now?

There are PDS Ethernet cards for the Mac SE, though of course they'll be getting harder to find as time goes by. That feature where ebay emails you might be useful. There were also SCSI Ethernet adapters where were compatible with the Mac SE. Good luck!

Dana, I adore your loving photography of these old Macs. Grats on getting 'er out of the closet and running! What do you reckon is the cause of the flickering green channel? My Mystic's red channel does that sometimes. A quick lookover of the analogue board revealed nothing, so I'm afraid the...

Oh wow, *jealous* *jealous* *jealous*

I highly recommend going at least to 40MHz bus. It really does help. If you're doing a lot of work, you might lower the multiplier on the 601 so you can go to 45, 50, keep pushing and see how far it'll go without the CPU clock being the limit.

One thing that comes to mind as a gotcha is that you don't have access to UNIX-style sockets under MacTCP. I would assume that most SSL / TLS libraries you find are written for a system with UNIX-style sockets. The "GUSI" (Grand Unified Sockets Interface) library exists, and claims to give you...

Better... it was a 50MHz 68040 SE/30. 8-) 50MHz was only stable long enough to get the screencap, but 48 ran like a top for years and years.

I really enjoyed my Turbo040 clock chipped @48MHz. http://www.fenestrated.net/~macman/Turbo040/

You guys are an inspiration! Now i'll have to go take a closer look at my board with gangster pinstripes.

I've very much enjoyed OpenBSD on mine; XFCE runs like a champ on it under OpenBSD, though I'm still an Enlightenment junkie from back about '99.

From the appearance, I would guess that the VRAM ICs were damaged by the capacitor goo leakage. I've got a board in this condition, but only on half the screen. The VRAMs are UC6 and UC7 on the SE/30 board. They are hard to find replacements for, but they do come up from time-to-time.

Strata VideoShop is a good choice. It was commercial software, released as freeware by the vendor. It has most of the editing capabilities of something like Premiere. Supposedly FusionRecorder can capture better framerates than any other software on the AV Quadras by not using a QuickTime VDIG...

That's awesome that it runs, but I'm still unsure how you exchange data with the rest of the world. Does the floppy-sharing still work? Do you need the Rocket SCSI-II card and a SyQuest drive?

I assume you get no networking on the Rocket with this setup (i.e. the AppleTalk-over-NuBus hack stops working in post-7.1). So, how do you load software into the Rocket? How do you get data back out of the Rocket?

... why not try it with a Duo 2300 and RocketShare? Seems much more likely to work than a 68030 Duo with RocketWare. ...a 2300 in a DuoDock+ with a Rocket and a DOS card would be pretty spiffy. PowerPC, 68k, and x86 all represented.

I'm not an expert, and I don't even play one on TV, but I do have years of experience as a talentless hack. I've found that it doesn't seem to get any worse, if you remove the source of the problem (leaky capacitor goo) and get it nice and clean.

I ran YDL Champion Server on my PowerBook 5300 with 24MB RAM, but 24MB RAM was a lot more back then than it is now. Is there documentation as to the size of the ramdisk that comes on your install CD? Alternately, can you mount you install CD in another linux box and unpack the compressed .cpio...