my vision for 68k/ early ppc macs — #84

Post #84 by ChristTrekker

Source Forum	my vision for 68k/ early ppc macs — #84
Category	68k
Post Date	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 - 23:31
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/my-vision-for-68k-early-ppc-macs.9406/

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if people here know details about QuickDraw accelerating NuBus video cards, then X under NetBSD can be accelerated using whatever hardware acceleration is available. It's been added for all sorts of other obscure hardware including video cards for VAXen, so why not NuBus video cards?

Just need to get the "real" X server working on mac68k, instead of the old 1-bit or OSFA color ones we have now. IIRC, there was a spurt of work last(?) year with the mac68k framebuffer that looked promising. Dunno what happened with that.

I currently don't have any 68k NB boxes (with the AV SCSI issues, I retired my Q840), but as soon as I get my CC operational again, that's what I'll be running on it.