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Neat.

NEC chipset I've heard are fairly well supported under classic Mac OS. Is there a USB field at the top of the system profiler page on 'Devices and Volumes' that says like USB 0 or something?

What's the actual chipset on the card itself?

I like the idea of a Pi-Rocket. You'd get a 'fairly' modern computer, that can directly interact with the Mac it's in. That'd be something I could get behind. I personally don't care for the idea of the PiStorm. It's neat and I respect the work that went into, but I don't really understand...

I agree and see your point. But as Jeremy Clarkson said, "This is brilliant, but I like this." as I slap the top of my cheap metal box with a single-core processor and spinning rust drives.

I was looking at it a bit, but did it 'replace' or add to motherboard memory? The brochure seems to imply it added onto it. Was there a memory controller on the card itself?

Just curious as I was working away today. I got to thinking after seeing the se/030 Ram expansion board (with 256MB onboard), how hard would it be to do that for a PCI Powermac (especially the RAM limited models: 6500, etc). Somehow interface a memory controller and maybe a gigabyte of fixed...

Are you trying to make an... eOne?

I found the old head to head Xlr8yourmac had between Sonnets 1GHz G4s and the 1.1GHz G3s, and the 600MHz (without the downclocked bus) had twice the memory performance of the G3s. The downclocked bus of the higher G4s effectively halved their memory performance to basically what the G3s were...

I think the higher (500 or 600MHz) clocked ones Daystar sold were 7410s. I think they might have been overclocked ones at that (in some article from back in the day I remember reading).

Unnecessary unless you're running beyond 40MHz. Plus, hardware overclocking isn't needed anymore as you can software overlock easily (for us end users). https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/upgrade-mc88920-to-mc88916-for-lc475-p475-q605-advanced-soldering.48616/

Yeah the G4s supported the newer/better MPX bus while the G3s were stuck on the older 60x bus.

Hol up. How long has macOS done the window snapping thing? I just now noticed that windows will 'snap' to another window. On ventura.

From a quick looks, it seems Quicktime 6 could once you got it the MPEG-2 playback component (a separate purchase at the time). Edit: Initially available for classic OS, it seems. I'm not sure if the Pre-X Mac OS Quicktime 6 could use the MPEG2 component. That might have been a OS X only thing.

As already mentioned, there is a software overclock option avaliable now for these machines. You can probably take your current 25MHz 040 to 40MHz fairly reliably.

Are we talking about Easter Egg images in general? Classic Macs were rife with them.

In sunny Costa Mesa California. Was gonna try to head down to Infinite Loop till I realized it would be 14 hours round trip 😔

Barring any issues with the PCI bridges on PCI cards in those machines, are those chipset supported by any Mac drivers even? I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.

My understanding is, without an actual upgraded ROM (solder in the slot if you need to) you CAN NOT bypass the memory test.