Radius Rocket & Quadra 950

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

olePigeon, sorry I got confuzzled earlier in the discussion, mostly I post stuff when I'm half asleep . . .

I just posted info about Quadras and Rockets in the Radius Rocket Guide/Troubleshooting Thread.

It basically says you gotta run RocketShare for a Rocket to be compatible with a Quadra, confirming what your manual says.

When you got it running you were doing it under RocketShare, correct?

I didn't know that it shut down the main processor. Hmm. I'll throw Macmetex a message and see if he's ever seen the Saturn V software. Supposedly the Saturn V software doesn't disable the CPUs, and lets you use all your Rockets + Host machine.

That'd be RocketShare, the reason Radius developed the Rocket was for multiprocessing. They made a lot of money selling them as accelerators for turning Mac IIs into Quadras though.

 

[olePigeon]

I've figured it all out, I was unclear how the Radius Rocket worked in the first place. So it either works as the primary CPU or as a host machine. I have it working on my IIci. I also discovered that it accelerates your Radius video card regardless if you're using the Rocket itself. Not sure how or why. I tested the video before and after with my Rocket installed, and the benchmark does indicate a difference in performance (even if perceptually I can't tell the difference.)

 

[Byrd]

As the proud owner of olePigeon's Rocket 33 , what machine would it be most suitable in? I've bunged 128MB RAM in the board.

My IIfx - with paltry 8MB RAM - can I use as purely an accelerator, and access the 128MB RAM?

The venerable 950 - maxed with WGS card running System 7.1 - as a psuedo dual processing 68K powerhouse?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Wow, WHOOSH!!!!!!!!!!! ICBM! :O

Either. really, but that 8MB IIfx really needs that extra RAM and it isn't a Quadra . . . yet! [] ]'>

Fly high, 'mate!

 

[Byrd]

So, the RAM is definately seen by the IIfx? That machine is quite temperamental (power supply issue), but I'll give it a shot, cobber!

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

When you run the Rocket under RocketWare 1.5 . . . there is no spoon . . . erm . . . the IIfx ceases to exist . . .

. . . except as enslaved by the Rocket as an I/O device, with its own little 6502 I/O minions . . . the Rocket becomes the spoon . . .

< /Matrix mode >

. . . erm . . . it becomes the IIfx, but knows it's a Quadra, with all that lovely local bus RAM on board, hoarding the IIfx ROM, copied into its web of deceit and telling its bold-faced IIfx lies in the "About this Macintosh" window.

< Shakespeare in Love mode >

It's a mystery!