Interware device software
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If you need a sit.hqx here is one created with dropstuff 5.5 on system 7.5
View attachment GrandVimage_v1.3.1b_fixed.sit.hqx
View attachment GrandVimage_v1.3.1b_fixed.sit.hqx
@alex- I also have an Interware 68030 50Mhz booster. While it seems to work ok without a driver, I looks like there is a driver for it in the .zip file. I saw a few files with promising drivers, inluding a file named Boosterv1.2.3, last for numbers of the folder are 4155.
I clicked on the Discord link, unfortunately it told me that I had an invalid invite. Maybe because i waited to long to click on the link! Although in my defense, I had a hard time trying to get onto the board over the past few days- was it down for maintenance?
I clicked on the Discord link, unfortunately it told me that I had an invalid invite. Maybe because i waited to long to click on the link! Although in my defense, I had a hard time trying to get onto the board over the past few days- was it down for maintenance?
I am delighted to learn that your Mac has a new found capability. It's still an amazing thing to see such an old Mac run a second display, what a marvel.
Yes the default expiry for those links is one day.
Try these
https://discord.gg/ycgEzq7 (Mac Garden)
https://discord.gg/pGvmBx8 (Mac Yak)
Stay safe!
—Alex
Yes the default expiry for those links is one day.
Try these
https://discord.gg/ycgEzq7 (Mac Garden)
https://discord.gg/pGvmBx8 (Mac Yak)
Stay safe!
—Alex
Hello JT737
If the file is corrupt I am afraid I won't be able to fix it. The files I offered came from a scrape of the waybackmachine so everything that could have ever been captured by the Internet Archive via the waybackmachine came down by my script but this doesn't mean that someone else might not have it or that the file or even more files were captured by the waybackmachine via a different site that they could have captured. I wouldn't know which site in the past might have carried this file. So if interfere was ever purchased by another company and they hosted the software you seek under a different domain name (another site) it might be there to capture via the said script. I documented the script on nichrome.us if you are interested.
So it may still be out there, uncorrupted via the following possibilities.
-Someone has the software but has not imaged it and put it on the internet for wide consumption
-A different site such as iijnet.or.jp might have had it (but I provided a zip of this site for you in google drive) or even some other site beyond
Do you have any information that can lead me into potentially check another site on the waybackmachine?
Try this link http://mirror.macintosharchive.org/max1zzz.co.uk/+Mac OS Classic/Drivers/Peripheral Support Drivers/BOOSTERv1.2.2.bin
—Alex
If the file is corrupt I am afraid I won't be able to fix it. The files I offered came from a scrape of the waybackmachine so everything that could have ever been captured by the Internet Archive via the waybackmachine came down by my script but this doesn't mean that someone else might not have it or that the file or even more files were captured by the waybackmachine via a different site that they could have captured. I wouldn't know which site in the past might have carried this file. So if interfere was ever purchased by another company and they hosted the software you seek under a different domain name (another site) it might be there to capture via the said script. I documented the script on nichrome.us if you are interested.
So it may still be out there, uncorrupted via the following possibilities.
-Someone has the software but has not imaged it and put it on the internet for wide consumption
-A different site such as iijnet.or.jp might have had it (but I provided a zip of this site for you in google drive) or even some other site beyond
Do you have any information that can lead me into potentially check another site on the waybackmachine?
Try this link http://mirror.macintosharchive.org/max1zzz.co.uk/+Mac OS Classic/Drivers/Peripheral Support Drivers/BOOSTERv1.2.2.bin
—Alex
Hi Alex,
That one works! Although it is for a G3 booster and not the 68030 50Mhz Interware booster that I have. So, I guess it is true that my accelerator card doesn't really need a driver, and possibly never had one, but I don't know. Judging by the results I got testing it with speedometer 3.23 and going on the fact that it doesn't have any cache memory, I think that it is performing as fast and as well as it can, especially when compared to a card like the Diimo 030 50Mhz.
Thanks for all of your help! The big one for me was the Grand Vimage driver for my 24-16 card. In the next day or so I plan on uploading it to the Macintosh Repository, as I am sure that I am not the only person that was/is looking for a copy of it!
-Jeff
That one works! Although it is for a G3 booster and not the 68030 50Mhz Interware booster that I have. So, I guess it is true that my accelerator card doesn't really need a driver, and possibly never had one, but I don't know. Judging by the results I got testing it with speedometer 3.23 and going on the fact that it doesn't have any cache memory, I think that it is performing as fast and as well as it can, especially when compared to a card like the Diimo 030 50Mhz.
Thanks for all of your help! The big one for me was the Grand Vimage driver for my 24-16 card. In the next day or so I plan on uploading it to the Macintosh Repository, as I am sure that I am not the only person that was/is looking for a copy of it!
-Jeff
That card probably does not need a control panel. It isn't accelerated, looks like a close relative of the SE/30 VDR-2 card.
By the frequencies of those crystals it supports VGA, Mac 13", SVGA, and a mystery 21mhz resolution (512x384?). Resolution switching could be accomplished by the Options dialog in Monitors control panel (system 7 and up). If not there, it might be looking at the sense lines. You may be able to entice it to switch resolutions by playing with DIP switches on an adapter.
I have what I believe is the same setup:
SE/30, System 7.5.3. Interware Vimage SE/30 24bit Video Card. I have found the Control Panel and installed, but no extension (INIT) or Slot Manager. Control Panel shows no Slots. Any ideas?
Forgot to mention I have a Daystar Turbo 040 installed and working great!
@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 for it (at least not one that I've found yet). I had to do some searching for the control panel for my GrandVimage, and I have uploaded the files for it on the Macintosh Repository:
I currently have a Daystar powercache 68030 50mhz accelerator in mine, someday I need to try to get one of my 68040 accelerators to work with it.
As for the VDR-2A, I don't think that they ever had a control panel for it (at least not one that I've found yet). I had to do some searching for the control panel for my GrandVimage, and I have uploaded the files for it on the Macintosh Repository:
Interware GrandVimage 24-16s v1.3.1 Video Driver - Macintosh Repository
This driver will work with the Interware GrandVimage 24-16 video card for the SE/30, and should (possibly!) work with other GrandVimage video cards...
www.macintoshrepository.org
I currently have a Daystar powercache 68030 50mhz accelerator in mine, someday I need to try to get one of my 68040 accelerators to work with it.
Thank you. I have the new control panel installed with no luck. It may be an issue with the Daystar Turbo 040 or its ROM version and the GrandVimage 24-16. Though, TattleTech can see the card in slot 9. Here are some screenshots in case anyone can help/verify. Thanks!
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OK, I think I got duped into the wrong card, Vimage SE/30 24bit vs. GrandVimage 24-16s. I may be stuck at 640x480 with no acceleration. If anyone knows how I can get my hands on the GrandVimage 24-16s I would GREATLY appreciate it. Thanks!
Depending on which rom you have on your card, you might be able to do 1024*768@256. I believe mine does.
The GrandVimage for SE/30 is a rare thing, your best bet would be to find one on Yahoo Japan, although I haven't seen one for sale for years (and I've been keeping an eye out for one as well).
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 years....I guess we that have them should consider ourselves very lucky.
@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 have one you can try, that is)?
Also, I'm using a slightly older version of the control panel, v.1.3.1....but that probably has nothing to do with it.
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 have one you can try, that is)?
Also, I'm using a slightly older version of the control panel, v.1.3.1....but that probably has nothing to do with it.
