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The Radius Thunder IV GX series of cards are 7' NuBus cardscompatible with 680x0- and PowerPC-based Macs running up to Mac OS 9.1. Thecard is known to be compatible with Sonnet and Newer Tech G3upgrades.
We have had reports of incompatibility with Virtual Memory in Mac OS8.1 through 9.0.4. They may be compatible with higher versions of theMac OS.
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This baby is flying even in this IIcx. Same benching platform as the others; IIcxwith 32 MB RAM, System 7.1, and Speedometer 4.02.
This card is killer for 16-bit acceleration. It feels faster thanany of the SuperMac cards I've tested, and the Speedo numbers bear thisout.
With acceleration off, this card is pretty pedestrian:
Now to find a NuBus-based Power Mac to see if Radius's claim of 'upto 20x the speed of the 8100's built-in video' is true :)
Acceleration/Resolution/Color Support
The cards have four onboard AT&T 3210 DSPs (digital signalprocessors) running at 66 MHz for Photoshop acceleration and providestandard QuickDraw acceleration as well. All Thunder IV cards supportthe following resolution/color combinations, except as noted:
- 640 x 480 up to 24-bit
- 832 x 624 up to 24-bit
- 1024 x 768 (at 75Hz) up to 24-bit
- 1152 x 870 up to 24-bit
- 1152 x 882 up to 24-bit
- 1280 x 1024 up to 24-bit (1360 only)
- 1360x1024 up to 8-bit (1152 only)
- 1360x1024 up to 24-bit (1360, 1600)
- 1600x1200 up to 8-bit (1152, 1360)
- 1600x1200 up to 24-bit (1600 only)
The 1360 and 1600 support 1360x1024 in 24-bit color, while the 1152supports this resolution in 8-bit color only. The 1600 also supports1600x1200 in 24-bit color, while the 1360 and 1152 support thisresolution in 8-bit color only.
Software
- Links to Radius and SuperMac software on Gamba'ssite.
- QuickColor 3.3 (part of RadiusWare 3.3) works fine under any Mac OSup to and including Mac OS 9.1.
- Dynamic Desktop crashes the Mac OS at startup when installed on MacOS 8.6 or higher. SwitchRes (shareware) works to change resolutionsinstead.
Notes
- DSPs (digital signal processors) are incompatible with Mac OSversions over 7.5.5 according to Radius. QuickDraw acceleration remainscompatible.
- The Thunder IV GX 1600 is compatible with Mac OS versions up to8.5.
- The Thunder IV GX 1360 is compatible with Mac OS versions up to8.6.
- These cards are compatible with G3/G4 upgrades.
- The Thunder IV GX 1600 is compatible with Apple or Daystar PowerPCaccelerator cards, but the PhotoEngine software is not. PhotoEnginesoftware will be disabled and should be removed.
- While these cards regularly appear on eBay, they are very highly sought after and, as such, command apremium price. Don't expect to get any of these for much less thanUS$100 - and expect to pay near $200 for the Thunder IV GX 1600.
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Introduction
Back in early November of 2003, I introduced my Mac OS X 10.3 Panther review with some concerns about Apple's OS release cycle.
It's strange to have gone from years of uncertainty and vaporware to a steady annual supply of major new operating system releases from Apple. But do I really want to pay US$129 every year for the next version of Mac OS X? Worse, do I really want to deal with the inevitable upgrade hassles and 10.x.0 release bugs every single year? Is it worth it, or is a major OS upgrade every year simply too much, too often?
In the end, I concluded that I was okay with yearly releases, but that some sort of adjustment for 'normal' customers would be nice.
If there's going to be any consumer backlash, it's not going to start with me. I think Panther is worth the cost, but I consider its price to be an investment in the future of Mac OS X—something I obviously have strong opinions about. I'm probably not a typical user, however. If Apple wants to help ease the burden of the larger Mac community, decent upgrade pricing would be a good start. With a yearly release schedule, that is nearly the same thing as a simple price reduction, but if so, so be it.
So convinced was I of the inevitability of the Mac OS X yearly release juggernaut that I never even considered the possibility that relief from the $129-per-year Mac OS X tax might come in the form of an extra six-month wait for version 10.4. 'Let's do this again next year' were my exact words at the end of the Panther review.
Well, here we are 18 months and 6 days later, finally getting a look at Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Windows users patiently waiting for Longhorn may not be sympathetic, but the longer wait for Tiger is something new to Mac OS X users.
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Tiger's longer gestation doesn't mean that the rate of change has slowed, however. Tiger includes updates that are at least twice as significant as any single past update. Mac OS X is now getting to the point where significant improvements require a larger time investment. As far as the core OS is concerned, most of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested. Now it's time for Apple to get down to the real work of improving Mac OS X.
Tiger also represents a milestone in Mac OS X's development process. Apple has promised developers that there will be 'no API disruption for the foreseeable future.' Starting with Tiger, Apple will add new APIs to Mac OS X, but will not change any existing APIs in an incompatible way. This has not been the case during the first four years of Mac OS X's development, and Mac developers have often had to scramble to keep their applications running after each new major release.
Despite its NeXTSTEP roots, Mac OS X is still a very young operating system. Most of the technologies that make it interesting and unique are actually brand new: Quartz, Core Audio, IOKit, Core Foundation. The hold-overs from NeXT and classic Mac OS have also evolved substantially: QuickTime, Carbon, Cocoa.
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It's tempting to say that Tiger marks childhood's end for Mac OS X, but I think that goes too far. A more accurate analogy is that Mac OS X versions 10.0 through 10.3 represent 'the fourth trimester' for Apple's new baby—a phrase used to describe the first three months of human life, during which the baby becomes accustomed to life outside the womb. As any new parent knows (yes, I am one of them), this is not an easy time of life, for the baby or for the parents.
It's been a rough journey, but we've made it through intact: Apple, Mac OS X, and Mac users everywhere. Tiger has arrived. Let's see what this baby can do.
