RasterOps Colorboard 264/SE30

[Alex]

Very few monitors with anywhere near affordable pricing could do more than 640x480 at a 24bit color depth in early 1990. Panning and Zooming at those resolutions within a 640 x 480 looking glass is very cool. 

My IIx was able to do the same using an init. I can't remember the name of the init or the color depth but it was an Apple 24•GC card. Is that the name of the card, gosh this was so many years ago. What I can tell you is that scrolling the screen was absolutely liquid, no stutter at all.

 

[Themk]

The Apple 24 GC is an amazing NuBus card. Hopefully my panning will be very smooth too. Haven't been able to expirience that yet, still waiting on my SE/30 recap.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

A software solution was mentioned in one of the articles Themke found, they said it was slow, but it was likely a tad faster and a whole lot smoother on a IIfx.

About the HD-15 connectors I for the hack above: I meant Solder Cup termination would be the one to use for cable building, not the Solder Tail type used on PCBs, though those could be used in a pinch.

 

[nickpunt]

Ebay discovery of another RasterOps 264/30 with ROM:

264SE30 1.3

0002-2019

10/2/90

Looks like 1.3 is probably the last version of the ROM given Themk has the same version # but dated 09/03/91, almost a year later.

 

[Themk]

Interesting, different dates, yet same ROM version! Wondering if maybe the date has to deal with when it was manufactured? Anyway, my big thing is, let's hope that version 1.3 is MacOS 8.1 compatible! Really wanna install that (in a systempicker scenario) on my SE/30.

Really want a ROM revision changelog.

 

[Themk]

Arrgh... Well I finished my recap 1.5 weeks ago, and just yesterday finished running a patch wire, so my SE/30 is now in fully functional condition! System 7.1.1 Pro is working very well, and I really enjoy this computer. One problem though, despite having a fully supported software configuration, I can't get Pan, zoom, extended desktop features to work. I almost wonder if maybe this card is "incompatible"? If so, maybe ResEdit hacking? I read in a readme file shipped with RasterOps software 1.66 that the Colorboard 264/SE30 isn't supported for PZE features, while other sources say it is supported! Hmm, not sure!

Got any ideas?

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Which sources said what? Gotta vet that kind of info, rating it for reliability.

Check the back issues of Macworld for reviews?

I wonder what version of Acrobat I'd need to import all those issues into one GARGANTUAN, keyword searchable document? Maybe break it up by year? I checked a December/January pairing for the yearly index, but couldn't find it. That must have been one of the features that made me a MacUser diehard. Just putting a full run set of indices together in one file would be a big undertaking, but worth it.

 

[Themk]

README supplied with RasterOps software v. 1.66 says that Colorboard 264/SE30 doesn't support PZE. I'll go digging for where I thought it says PZE compatibility.

Even if it isn't "supported", ResEdit should be able to take care of that problem

Will check macworld for reviews.

I wonder what version of Acrobat I'd need to import all those issues into one GARGANTUAN, keyword searchable document? Maybe break it up by year? I checked a December/January pairing for the yearly index, but couldn't find it. That must have been one of the features that made me a MacUser diehard. Just putting a full run set of indices together in one file would be a big undertaking, but worth it.

I have Acrobat 7 Professional. It is quite feature rich, and would probably allow us to do what you mentioned. I bought it back around the time I bought CS2, Haven't given Adobe a penny since! Optical Character Recognition would be the hardest part, as I don't think Acrobat 7 Pro has OCR, and even if it does, it probably would have a terrible time at scanning the page. I think I have some other OCR software somewhere else, I'll have to take a look.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

The issues are already OCR'd. Found the 1988 index in the Feb. 88 issue. On a lark I copied all the index text into OpenOfficwWriter and it coma out to the ugliest mishmash of columnar data and text plops ever to partially fill 37 PAGES!!!

Just putting all the indices into one file would be killer. Just knowing to look in the February issue ()plus or minus a month?) for any given year's index is going to be a big help.

Found a TurboSE article on p. 262 of the Feb'89 PDF just paging through.

 

[Themk]

Since they are all *.PDF, I can simply stich all of them in chronological order in to one big fugly PDF file, using Acrobat 7 Pro.

EDIT: Just saved the entire collection to my HDD! Also, Acrobat is currently combining them into one big file! Eventually, I may add a TOC to the front, but searchable MacWorld archive isn't very far away!

Unfortunantly, Acrobat 7 Pro is 32-bit, so it ran out of memory during the operation :-/ . Good news is, I have 1984-december 1989 (the entire 80s of Macworld) in one file! I'll try to put 1990-1994 in another file. Maybe one day I will be able to stitch the two files together?

 

[CC_333]

I have access to Acrobat CS 6, so maybe I can help???

I'd need to learn how to "stitch" PDFs together first-- it couldn't be that hard?

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[Themk]

Lol it's elementary in Arcobat 7 Pro which I have

File->Create PDF->From multiple files

(That function's express purpose is to combine PDF files)

Choose all of the PDFs, make sure they are in order, and BOOM; it's done (in 5-10 minutes after it processes)

The problem with Acrobat 7 Pro, is that the 32-bit address space isn't large enough to calculate it. Acrobat CS6 in its 64-bit form probably (with sufficient RAM installed in the computer) could do this task which is otherwise 'impossible'.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Putting all the issues together is a ridiculous notion!

But finding those pesky yearly indices (apparently they're not all in the February issue  : ) and then slapping just those pages together into one searchable .PDF would be fabulous!

 

[Themk]

The idea of having them all in one PDF file means that when you search, it takes you right to where the article is. Just having a full index would be good though.

 

[CC_333]

OK. Since I have 32 GB of RAM, that shouldn't be a problem. [] ]'>

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[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Gonna be ONEBIGPDF file.  What's nice is that a lot of the ads have been OCR'd so it's easy to search terms like Radius or SuperMac for pictures and info on monitors, cards and accelerators.