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Radius Thunder pci

pupuklok

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Hello . I have a old radius thunder 1600 pci version videocard found and i put it in a powermac g3 bue and white as a second videocard.
The card worked so far i see the radius logo . But i can not find drivers for mac os 9. There are only old drivers for a older mac os.
Can i use this card on this powermac?
Or must i flash the rom of this card to work on the powermac g3 blue and white ?
The card works well but only lower resolutions i can choose from and of course the card does not have any 3d rendering for games . only 2d games works.
 

Phipli

Well-known member
Hello . I have a old radius thunder 1600 pci version videocard found and i put it in a powermac g3 bue and white as a second videocard.
The card worked so far i see the radius logo . But i can not find drivers for mac os 9. There are only old drivers for a older mac os.
Can i use this card on this powermac?
Or must i flash the rom of this card to work on the powermac g3 blue and white ?
The card works well but only lower resolutions i can choose from and of course the card does not have any 3d rendering for games . only 2d games works.
I think my Radius card didn't like running in Mac OS 9. Trying to think what driver versions I have about. I didn't have the same card as you, I had the more budget PCI PrecisionColor
 

Phipli

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Is it one of these? If I remember, I think version 3.3 is actually mislabeled (it is a driver for Nubus cards), but if you check all of them, something should work with your card... But probably not in the B&W.
 

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Powerbase

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Is it the ThunderPower version of the Thunder card. It had the solder pads but no connector for the optional DSP board.

I used it for a bit in my 0S 9.1 Powerbase for a while. It worked fine but had a sync on green problem. I think I used the Radiusware drivers.
 
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