What to do with a NUBUS DSP Card? (besides Photoshop) — #38

Post #38 by Bunsen

Source Forum	What to do with a NUBUS DSP Card? (besides Photoshop) — #38
Category	Development
Post Date	Mon, 28 May 2012 - 22:06
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/what-to-do-with-a-nubus-dsp-card-besides-photoshop.25414/

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have one of the Radius cards with four DSPs

Care to name that card?

4 NuBus slots and filled every slot with a 4 DSP card (16 DSPs!) you would still be lagging slightly behind the performance you would get out of a G3 upgrade for that Mac.

G3 upgrades were however only available for PowerPC Macs, not for 68ks. But your point is taken. Compare, for example. TylerEss's rig:

I can get 24 tracks and 12+ realtime filters on an 8100/80 with a JackHammer, G3, AudioMedia II, and a 10k drive, running Deck 2.6.1 under MacOS 7.6.1.
I wrote quite a bit about this in a LEM article. It's here: http://www.lowendmac.com/sable/06/0508.html

One possible idea is an MP3 player app that offloads CPU workload so that you can play music in the background while you work at near full speed on the machine.

Now you're talking }

I wonder if Mr. MpegDEC would be interested in collaborating, or at least sharing code. A "Photoshop card plug-in" for MpegDEC would be one way to attack this problem.