Hello I recently acquired a mac iivx
fearing it might need a recap job but turns out no battery leak and no mobo damage that I see (other than being dirty)
and it turns on and chimes and runs currently system 7.5.5
it has 68mb of 70ns ram- I do have 32-bit addressing turned on.
it has the full 1mb of VRAM (also 2x 512k 70ns)
I'm using a seagate 7200rpm 9GB HDD with a scsi 68-to 50 pin adapter
my question is this:
While I'm fully aware the iivx is known for being kind of a dog due to the 16mhz bus I didn't think it would be this bad
even playing very early mac games like Oregon trail and the "256 color" version of Leisure suit Larry1-both are very laggy Larry moves slowly in the bar but then outside bar he walks a bit faster (not to mention the long load times in between scenes)
and oregon trail even lags while hunting
I'm running the mac at 640x480 at 256 colors
so my question is this: is there any speedups? other than clock crystal replacements to bump up the bus speed to higher than 16mhz? Should I be running system 7.5.5? I read 7.6 isn't optimized for 68K macs would upgrading quicktime help (my understanding is its a system component)
and if I where to actually find a PDS accelerator card would it even help due to the 16mhz bus?
one last thing: I also noticed that while the VRAM was upgraded with 2x 512k sticks-they are not matching. both are 512k and both 70ns but one stick has 2 chips on it and the other has 4-I do have the original Apple 512Kb kit of vram sticks-would I be better off?
fearing it might need a recap job but turns out no battery leak and no mobo damage that I see (other than being dirty)
and it turns on and chimes and runs currently system 7.5.5
it has 68mb of 70ns ram- I do have 32-bit addressing turned on.
it has the full 1mb of VRAM (also 2x 512k 70ns)
I'm using a seagate 7200rpm 9GB HDD with a scsi 68-to 50 pin adapter
my question is this:
While I'm fully aware the iivx is known for being kind of a dog due to the 16mhz bus I didn't think it would be this bad
even playing very early mac games like Oregon trail and the "256 color" version of Leisure suit Larry1-both are very laggy Larry moves slowly in the bar but then outside bar he walks a bit faster (not to mention the long load times in between scenes)
and oregon trail even lags while hunting
I'm running the mac at 640x480 at 256 colors
so my question is this: is there any speedups? other than clock crystal replacements to bump up the bus speed to higher than 16mhz? Should I be running system 7.5.5? I read 7.6 isn't optimized for 68K macs would upgrading quicktime help (my understanding is its a system component)
and if I where to actually find a PDS accelerator card would it even help due to the 16mhz bus?
one last thing: I also noticed that while the VRAM was upgraded with 2x 512k sticks-they are not matching. both are 512k and both 70ns but one stick has 2 chips on it and the other has 4-I do have the original Apple 512Kb kit of vram sticks-would I be better off?