Lost Radius TPD and FPD SE Drivers - Found?

[jasonfortheworld]

I won't be able to test this for a few days, but I wanted to share this driver/cdev I found on a HDD in an SE. This appears to be Version 3.0 of the Radius SE Display control panel.

This HDD was in an SE that had a TPD card featuring 3.3 ROMs which means this driver may actually work with TPD and FPD cards that have older ROMs like my 3.0 card I already have. I wanted to just share a .sit file with the cdev here and test it myself before I go posting it to Macintosh Garden.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very exciting, thanks much!

 

[jasonfortheworld]

Okay! So I did some testing tonight. It looks like this driver works with a Magic Bus Two Page Display card that has v3.3 ROMs. I also tested it with another Magic Bus card with v3.0 ROMs and didn't get any output like the v3.3 card, so I'm guessing I would need an even older driver.

Also, this driver only seems to work in system 6. I tried 6.0.8 which worked fine with the v3.3 card, but any system 7 OS would lock up if the driver was installed and the card slotted in.

Here's a screenshot of the v3.3 card working on an LCD. Granted it's all in green as the output from the TPD card is a monochrome BNC connector and I had to use a VGA cable with a BNC breakout on the other end.

 

[zefrenchtoon]

First, thanks for the backup of your driver.

Then thanks for your tests and feedback.
I have a FPD with BNC connector and was wondering if it would be usable with a LCD screen ... so it should be possible.
Do you know if there is any spec I have to check on the monitor to connect to it ? (thinking about frequency, sync mode or resolution)

 

[zefrenchtoon]

After a quick check, I am wondering if I have a FPD or a TPD ...
My card's ROM are flagged "MPD 4.4" and the card itself has a silkscreen saying "Radius SE Display".
By looking at the crystal's frequency, I am thinking about a TPD because it says 99 MHz as @Arbee mentionned in your other thread.

 

[jasonfortheworld]

After a quick check, I am wondering if I have a FPD or a TPD ...
My card's ROM are flagged "MPD 4.4" and the card itself has a silkscreen saying "Radius SE Display".
By looking at the crystal's frequency, I am thinking about a TPD because it says 99 MHz as @Arbee mentionned in your other thread.

I'm not to familiar with the exact frequency these cards output, but from what I have read pretty much any similar modern LCD display should work.

As for what your card is, I honestly have no idea. Would you be able to share some photos of it? I wonder if it's just a general video card and not a two page or full page card.

 

[zefrenchtoon]

I'm not to familiar with the exact frequency these cards output, but from what I have read pretty much any similar modern LCD display should work.

As for what your card is, I honestly have no idea. Would you be able to share some photos of it? I wonder if it's just a general video card and not a two page or full page card.

Of course, here it is along with my Radius Accelerator:

 

[jasonfortheworld]

Of course, here it is along with my Radius Accelerator:

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Looks like MPD stands for Macintosh Portrait Display. This card was meant to drive the official Apple Portrait monitors and not the Radius monitors.

Retrotechnology.com lists these two models as compatible:

M0404 (Rev. A), Macintosh Portrait Display, 13W3 one coax pin - 640 X 870, horizontal: 68.850 kHz, vertical: 75 Hz

M1030 (Rev. B), Macintosh Portrait Display as above