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Huh. Interesting. I had a Thunder IV GX in an overclocked and L2 cache upgraded 6100/60 way back in the day. It think I got it for a couple hundred $$$ back then after everyone had moved on to PCI, but before I was able to buy my first PowerComputing PCI-based clone. I ended up selling it after...

Are you talking about additional ways to enhance the Rocket or something else? The Rockets all have 128k of L2 cache for their onboard CPU... I think?

Is that a thing? I didn't realize that. I haven't tried yet, but I am currently expecting my SuperMac Thunder/24 + DSP to work properly in my 8100/100 despite it being a PowerPC machine. I suppose I shall find out if that's true or not relatively soon.

Taking a little break from graphics & PCI stuff to enjoy some choice 90's era beats, or at least the tools used to produce them... a Digidesign Audiomedia II w/ Sound Designer II. This guy usually lives in my 8100/100. Thanks to some help from @cheesestraws it's going to get some company...

Speaking of making a "sleeper" workstation, here's the Radius ThunderColor 30/1600 (w/ 4x DSP board). Including the original box and all the goodies. I also have a working 30/1152 version of this card, but without the box, etc. At some point I should probably trade or sell the 30/1152. I...

Yep, that one is mine. I vaguely recalled that you could use multiple cards back when they were originally released. Mostly what I remember though was running "Gerbils" in software rendering mode back in the day and thinking how amazing it must have been to have silky smooth "hi-res" Gerbils...

Also in the vein of the earliest 3D accelerators available for the Macintosh... the Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card. Here's an excellent thread from a few years back on VOGONS that dug up a lot of excellent details and did some fairly detailed testing and comparisons...

I really thought I'd seen 'em all at this point. Your description makes sense. So the Quadra 900 here would normally be running its bus and CPU at 25 MHz, and this thing clock doubles the bus and runs the CPU at 50 MHz. Makes sense. It's like a 68040 DX2 ;) Kind of neat that you can defeat the...

Behold! The Radius Thunder 3D. A hopeful entry into the PCI 3D workstation market. I've wanted one of these things for about 25 years, and I finally got one. It has a 3Dlabs GLINT 500TX and GLINT Delta chipset on it. The only rarer bird of this ilk that I can think of is the Newer Technology...

What sorcery is this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373428484553 ? I grabbed the photos for posterity.

I could plausibly facilitate this. I have a Rocket Stage I board that I could pull from my 7100/80 to use for testing.

I have to assume that those boards are basically '040 PDS boards? I wonder if other I/O boards could be made, like an Ethernet one? Or, a hybrid Ethernet SCSI to move all the I/O for the Rocket to local PDS instead of over the host Nubus and the various forms of chicanery required to map and...

Excellent. Do you know of anybody around here who has one of the SCSI boards? Using the search for such a thing has extended beyond my search-fu.

Interestingly the layouts of both the Stage I SCSI and DSP boards is pretty simple looking. At least component-wise. They seem reproducible. Especially the SCSI board. There's barely anything to it. That Emulex IC is still available, so as long as that GAL can be dumped, then it seems plausible...

That PCI expansion thing is bananas! What could you even use that for? I know that industrial computers based on the 68040 eventually had PCI busses on them, but they were for running stuff like QNX, VxWorks, etc. Are there even any Mac-compatible PCI device drivers that are 68k for running on a...

It was in Japan. Price went North of $400, which was my limit.

I just lost an auction for a Radius Rocket that had the SCSI board on it. The price shot up beyond what I could justify spending since I already have a Radius Rocket w/o such a board. Does anyone have or have pictures of these boards? As far as I know there was the DSP board and the SCSI board...

I'm in Portland, OR in the US. I don't mind paying for the effort, the EEPROM, and the postage.

Found it, thank you for the hint. Now I just need to print it out and throw it at the card on my desk. :)

Howdy, I'm going to be moving my Thunder/24 + DSP to my Power Macintosh 8100/100. I'm trying to create a vintage top-tier Nubus media workstation, so I'm putting the SuperMac Thunder/24 + DSP card, a Radius VideoVision card, and a Digidesign Audiomedia II card in there. The latter two cards...