Power Macintosh 7200/90 L2 Cache

[Becks79]

Ha that's right! Hope the Adjustable Keyboard and the HPV card is still working - I hadn't recapped it iirc I saw a PCI firewire card btw which should work? seemed reasonable - https://www.finn.no/recommerce/forsale/item/454291512

The box says OS X, but it might still work? I dunno.
But if the Yamaha card works, it will give me good stereo playback and recording, which will be enough for this system. I'll just send mix-out to a stereo pair on my audio interface and send that to the Mac, and Bob's your uncle.

 

[Becks79]

I've ended up working on a music project today, so haven't really looked into retro computer stuff today ^^

 

[Becks79]

Hmmm...
I have an Nvidia Quadro4 100NVS PCI... I wonder if I could flash that with the GeForce 4 MX bios and use it in my 7200.
Anyone have any experience with that?

 

[Phipli]

Hmmm...
I have an Nvidia Quadro4 100NVS PCI... I wonder if I could flash that with the GeForce 4 MX bios and use it in my 7200.
Anyone have any experience with that?

The CPU will be too much of a bottleneck for anything that could take advantage of that card even if you got it working.

The onboard video is pretty good for 2D and if you want some 3D, pick up a Mac Rage 128 - there are quite a few about. Even that would be overkill for a 7200/90.

 

[Becks79]

The CPU will be too much of a bottleneck for anything that could take advantage of that card even if you got it working.

The onboard video is pretty good for 2D and if you want some 3D, pick up a Mac Rage 128 - there are quite a few about. Even that would be overkill for a 7200/90.

I've been looking at Rage 128 on eBay (there are none available "locally" that I've seen), and they are not that cheap at the moment, at least not when factoring in shipping + import tax. I already have the Quadro, so I was just curious if it would work. I do not expect to be able to run anything with proper 3D on the 7200, but it would allow for higher resolution and colour depths, without having to spend money on VRAM dimms. Mine only has the 1MB onboard, which isn't really good for very much.