Subject: Re: Quadra 630
To: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/01/2007 14:44:09
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Hello,

On Sep 1, 2007, at 13:45, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 13:27 Uhr -0400 1.9.2007, Michael Lorenz wrote:
>> I had one - a Miro Rainbow GX ( which Miro denies any knowledge of ) -
>
> Yes, but it's in the Microsoft Knowledge base, so it must exist:
> <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/459054/fr>  ;)

Heh, for ages I've been digging around for specs, drivers etc. for this 
card - found absolutely nothing and Miro never answered my mails. 
Apparently the card's firmware does install some acceleration, at least 
when running MacOS. In A/UX it was still pretty quick but not as fast 
as in MacOS.

>> had plenty of memory, in 24bit it was faster than the Q700's onboard
>> video in 8bit, definitely had some sort of blitter and also a DSP ( 
>> for
>> photoshop I guess ).
>
> Sounds like the thing to have. I'll add it to my ?bay search list.

These things seem to be exceedingly rare ( and were probably horribly 
expensive ). And beware - the Miro Rainbow ( without GX ) is a dumb 
NuBus framebuffer, completely unrelated to this card.

have fun
Michael
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