I'm new to this world, so please bear with me. A few weeks back I came
into posession of a Mac SE/30 courtesy of eBay and I love it to pieces.
There was nothing on the hard disk, so I installed System 6.0.8 on it.
Then I had quite a shock - turned out the previous owner had upgraded
the RAM to 20MB and there was a RasterOps Colorboard 264/SE30 in the back!
A nice catch. Have you tried the RasterOps board with a generic, multi DIP switch Mac to PC video adapter? Many Mac video boards of this era were designed for use with fixed frequency analogue displays; the big ones were often based on the Sony GDM family. The good aspect of this is that the video board will often work happily with modern multisync displays. I recently found that the Radius Pivot A4 card in my spare SE/30 works perfectly with a relatively modern TFT display although there is only enough VRAM to support 640 * 480 in 256 colours. Generic adapters are cheap (less than �10 second hand) and they're useful to have in your Mac toolkit.
Another upgrade to consider is the installation of the IIsi ROM SIMM (fairly rare, I'm afraid) that eliminates the need for Mode32. Note that you need to perform a fresh system installation "for any Macintosh" after installing the SIMM. More information can be found on Gamba's pages.
Phil --- http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/
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