RasterOps Nubus Accelerator II drivers?

#1 Tue, 8 Feb 2011 - 02:12 68kMLA

Howdy, folks.

I have a RasterOps Accelerator II - a 7" Nubus card with 4x 30-pin SIMM slots and not much else. Apparently it provides color QuickDraw acceleration for arbitrary graphics cards, sort of like the 8*24GC, and can also be configured as a RAM disk. I'm not sure mine is completely working and wondered if anybody has the driver disk(s) for this card. I hope there is some kind of diagnostic program on it, but at the very least even the tool to configure a RAM disk would be helpful.

Thanks!

#2 Tue, 8 Feb 2011 - 04:53 68kMLA

You just need an early rasterops video driver disk, it includes a driver for the accelerator card in the options.

Is this your card:

https://picasaweb.google.com/teozenios/NubusCards#5074342871496358706

#3 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 - 18:13 68kMLA

It's similar to that one, but not identical. Now that you mention it I do remember reading once upon a time that a driver was on the Rasterops display adapter disks. duh! thanks. (@;

#4 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 - 18:39 68kMLA

There are two versions of the card I think. Anyway I hope you get it working, they are great for older Rasterops Nubus cards without acceleration in 68020/68030 machines (mac II, IIci, etc).

#5 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 - 19:19 68kMLA

I've got a sealed, NIB, RasterOps PaintBoard Prism/ Prism GT User Guide & SW coming in from eBay for a future, bare card snipe, maybe that'll have the drivers you need to kick a RasterOps Video Card into DSP Overdrive on your RasterOps Accelerator II. Maybe it'll work with other non-accelerated VidCards too, but I wouldn't count on it.

I've also got a sealed package coming. hopefully for my Storm DSP Card: Picture Press by Storm - Vintage PhotoShop. This may be the case for yur DSP card too. It's a little more difficult for me to visualize how a DSP card would add ColorQuickDraw Acceleration to another card without a direct card to card connector scheme, but accelerating PhotoShop filter ops would add a lot more utility overall, than Video Acceleration back when DSPs were mainly used in DTP workstations.

#6 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 - 19:29 68kMLA

Its not a normal DSP card that Photoshop can use, the card just does video acceleration over the Nubus bus. It will work with all video cards in Nubus slots. You need an older driver disk (I have a few if you can't find one).

#7 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 - 20:06 68kMLA

Interesting! :b&w: