Post your Mac 68K Speedup tips here:
1) Load up on RAM. Max out. For some machines, mainly those using 30-pin simms finding 16MB 30-pin simms can be a challenge.
2) Get a cache card for your IIci. Note to those with IIsi's: Don't ever ever insert this cache card or any card for the IIci's PDS slot into a IIsi PDS slot. You'll destroy your motherboard.
3) Get a slotless cache card for your Quadra CPU, or if you can't get the slotless cache card, get a PDS cache card, but that may prevent you from using other PDS Cards.
4) Use System 7.1.2P for Quadras. 7.1.2P? What's that? It is not the System 7.1.2 that shipped with the first PPC Macs. It's the System that shipped with early versions of the Quadra 630. Hard to find, but I found it online.
It's the last evolution of System 7.1 before it became slow and clunky with 7.5.5. You can make 7.1.x like 7.5.5 with add-ons.
Use 7.5.5 only if you have a partition greater than 2GB, or need the machine to run network services. If you must, this page can help trim down System 7.5.5 for 68K (don't forget to run PowerPCCheck to remove PPC code)
5) If your PDS slot is still empty, get a Radius Photobooster and ImageBooster software (from Image Technology, it's a control panel) so that JPEG rendering is passed onto the Photobooster card.
6) Run PowerPCCheck and strip out all PPC code, except the PPC code in the LaserWriter driver. For some reason, the LaserWriter driver won't run in 68K if the PPC code is stripped out.
7) If you're using System 7.1.2, don't install LaserWriter 8.4 or later. It updates your finder and adds the sharedlib manager, which slows down your system.
8) To run modern apps on 7.1.x, you'll need Thread Manager. The last version is 2.1.5, for 32-bit dirty ROM machines, use Thread Manager 2.1.3
1) Load up on RAM. Max out. For some machines, mainly those using 30-pin simms finding 16MB 30-pin simms can be a challenge.
2) Get a cache card for your IIci. Note to those with IIsi's: Don't ever ever insert this cache card or any card for the IIci's PDS slot into a IIsi PDS slot. You'll destroy your motherboard.
3) Get a slotless cache card for your Quadra CPU, or if you can't get the slotless cache card, get a PDS cache card, but that may prevent you from using other PDS Cards.
4) Use System 7.1.2P for Quadras. 7.1.2P? What's that? It is not the System 7.1.2 that shipped with the first PPC Macs. It's the System that shipped with early versions of the Quadra 630. Hard to find, but I found it online.
It's the last evolution of System 7.1 before it became slow and clunky with 7.5.5. You can make 7.1.x like 7.5.5 with add-ons.
Use 7.5.5 only if you have a partition greater than 2GB, or need the machine to run network services. If you must, this page can help trim down System 7.5.5 for 68K (don't forget to run PowerPCCheck to remove PPC code)
5) If your PDS slot is still empty, get a Radius Photobooster and ImageBooster software (from Image Technology, it's a control panel) so that JPEG rendering is passed onto the Photobooster card.
6) Run PowerPCCheck and strip out all PPC code, except the PPC code in the LaserWriter driver. For some reason, the LaserWriter driver won't run in 68K if the PPC code is stripped out.
7) If you're using System 7.1.2, don't install LaserWriter 8.4 or later. It updates your finder and adds the sharedlib manager, which slows down your system.
8) To run modern apps on 7.1.x, you'll need Thread Manager. The last version is 2.1.5, for 32-bit dirty ROM machines, use Thread Manager 2.1.3
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