Looking for information on the Rasterops Prism GT graphics card for old
Nubus based Macs. Have been all over Google and have been unable to
find anything but the 3.3 drivers from the Mac Driver museum.
Basically, I picked up one of these cards for my old Quantum 700. It
gives me the option of now selecting thousands of colors in my Monitors
control panel, gives me some higher resolutions at 24-bit (millions of
colors) depth, allegedly gives me Quickdraw acceleration, and a few
other arcane features that I really have no use for. ie. 2, 4, and 8
times zoom. Yawn!
What I want to know, is what applications will actually benefit from the
acceleration offered by this card. Nothing appears to be really be any
faster than the stock Quadra video hardware. I suppose millions of
colors at higher resolution is better than a kick in the nuts, but I'm
really wanting to see some acceleration. Do applications have to be
specifically written to take advantage of the acceleration offered by
this card? And, if so, which applications will take advantage of it?
Specifics:
Quadra 700 /w 20 MB RAM, System 7.5.5, Quicktime 2.5, Version 3.3 of the
Rasterops drivers.
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