I have a vintage Macintosh Plus recently removed from long-term storage. It seems to be working well and I added a BlueSCSI emulator which boots fine into Systems 6 and 7.
When I opened up the Mac to modify the logic board with a resistor enabling SCSI power to the BlueSCSI I discovered that it has a MicroMac PerformerPro 68030 Accelerator Card installed. Nothing appears on the Macintosh screen about this, I presume because the driver(s) are not installed. I’m new to all this but reading up (MicroMac still have an old functioning website from 2000 I think - https://www.micromac.com/products/compact_macs.html). I discovered the drivers apparently required to make the Accelerator Card work and I downloaded them.
The one for the Macintosh Plus was a .sit file but I unarchived it and it created a folder with the driver files MM PerformerPro1.6.1 for the non-FPU version of the card and MM PerformerPro1.6.1-FPU for the FPU version. I don’t think my logic board has the FPU installed but cannot be sure since I did not fully remove the logic board when installing the resistor. And according to the accompanying README file I don’t think it matters - the FPU will not be seen if the non-FPU driver is used, but it does not say it will not work.
I’d like to know how I can install the driver(s) on the microSD card of the BlueSCSI. I’m completely unfamiliar with how the system works since the BlueSCSI boots from a single .hda file. Can I just transfer the driver file across to the root of the microSD card or how do I make the driver a part of the booting process so that I can discover if the MicroMac PerformerPro Accellerator Card is working. If I understood the README file correctly a ‘Control Panel’ for the card will be created by the driver on boot-up.
And, if there’s a better forum to post this question in please let me know. Thanks!
When I opened up the Mac to modify the logic board with a resistor enabling SCSI power to the BlueSCSI I discovered that it has a MicroMac PerformerPro 68030 Accelerator Card installed. Nothing appears on the Macintosh screen about this, I presume because the driver(s) are not installed. I’m new to all this but reading up (MicroMac still have an old functioning website from 2000 I think - https://www.micromac.com/products/compact_macs.html). I discovered the drivers apparently required to make the Accelerator Card work and I downloaded them.
The one for the Macintosh Plus was a .sit file but I unarchived it and it created a folder with the driver files MM PerformerPro1.6.1 for the non-FPU version of the card and MM PerformerPro1.6.1-FPU for the FPU version. I don’t think my logic board has the FPU installed but cannot be sure since I did not fully remove the logic board when installing the resistor. And according to the accompanying README file I don’t think it matters - the FPU will not be seen if the non-FPU driver is used, but it does not say it will not work.
I’d like to know how I can install the driver(s) on the microSD card of the BlueSCSI. I’m completely unfamiliar with how the system works since the BlueSCSI boots from a single .hda file. Can I just transfer the driver file across to the root of the microSD card or how do I make the driver a part of the booting process so that I can discover if the MicroMac PerformerPro Accellerator Card is working. If I understood the README file correctly a ‘Control Panel’ for the card will be created by the driver on boot-up.
And, if there’s a better forum to post this question in please let me know. Thanks!