Recent content by JT737

That is an impressive haul!! I will definitely be looking for what you post to the Trading Post!

I'm excited to see what becomes of this! I am lucky enough to own what I think is one of the best video cards for the SE/30- and Interware Grand Vimage 24-16s. I like it because it is one of the few video cards that has acceleration that works with the SE/30, and while the acceleration seems...

@bregard - I think that it probably has something to do with the Daystar 68040 accelerator, but I'm not sure. I wonder if you are getting enough power from your power supply to properly power up everything. Does your Grand Vimage card work fine with a 68030 based accelerator card (If you...

That's where I got mine from during the pandemic- for $355. I too have been searching for another one....and have even gone so far as to buy a few SE/30's from Yahoo! Japan with video card connectors sticking out the back of them. And......no luck. I too haven't seen one for sale in...

@bregard -I have a GrandVimage 24-16 installed in my SE/30, which is an awesome video card. I have the GrandVimage control panel installed to control it, which includes the ability to turn on the card's video acceleration! As for the VDR-2A, I don't think that they ever had a control panel...

That's a clean looking SE/30!! Good find and save.

From what I understand, the VDR-2J and VDR-2L are capable of different resolutions other than just 640x480 (as seen by the addition of more clock crystal to control the vertical and horizontal resolution) but I have never had much luck in making it work.

These are all PDS cards for the SE/30; my guess is it different from a nubus BIOS (because of the different kind of expansion slot) but I'm not entirely sure. Anyways, I have both a -L and a -J versions of these VDR-2 cards; here are the BIOS dumps for them and pictures of their associated cards:

@jasa1063 - I have both an Interware VDR-2a and a VDR-2l; attached is a copy of the BIOS from the VDR-2a. Let me know if you need a copy of the other one as well.

I didn't know that.....thanks for the info! I will admit, that while I have a few BMOW ROMs I mostly use ROMs that I received from Zane....who I guess isn't on the board anymore (I do believe he helped found Tinker Different). I was beta testing them for him...and have been so impressed by...

@jacopodn -that's what the BMOW ROM-inator is for!! You'll definitely love it. Mode 32 works as well, although I prefer to replace the ROM with a 32-bit clean one.

Agree with what @obsolete said. I have probably half a dozen different kinds of SE/30 ROM SIMMS; if they are stock, they all (at least from what I have seen!) do the same thing. I think it mostly came down to what kinds of chips they could get their hands on at the time to use in them. Most...

@derFunkenstein You could always get an accelerator for your SE! I was actually beta testing an SE accelerator that was made by @zane, called the "Warp SE"; it is based on a 68000 cpu clocked at 25Mhz. It works great, and is still currently in one of my SE's. Sadly, I haven't heard anything...

Has anyone had any luck getting this card to display on an external monitor? I've tried a few options so far....and not much luck, yet. I've tried directly connecting a monitor to both the VGA port(LCD monitor) and the CGA port (an old Tandy monitor). The Tandy seems to want to work....except...

I know, right?! Every time I have opened up one of these with a Maxell battery, the board is usually a total lose. This was a first for me. Kinda does, doesn't it? However, every time I encounter a Maxell battery bombed SE/30, the metal chassis is also rusted. I'm just glad it didn't take...