ARRGHH sorry - first thing in the morning syndrome :S
On May 19, 2004, at 02:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
840avs are wasted running UNIX as they have a lot of AV stuff that is Mac OS specific (unless someone has developed a DSP interface for it for NetBSD??) If you want a big box 68k server you are better off with a 950 or an 800. Granted the CPU is slower but I hate to see good AV features go to waste :-)
True. I doubt many people are still using the AV Quadras for AV, though the guy I got mine from was ripping his vinyl with it.
I use mine for AV because I'm poor and can't afford a FireWire video camera. It does a pretty good job and turns out stuff I can easily throw into iMovie, edit, then pack up as MPG and use for general consumption. A Spigot PAV card, ATTO Silicon Express IV and a 15GB 10,000 rpm hard disk do help it along tho :)
For me, it would probably only boot Unix when I wanted to compile something for my other machines. ;)
Wouldn't know how to do that - if I don't compile it on the target machine I'm pretty lost! Anyway that's something for another list... Are you on the NetBSD-mac68k list Tim?
(Doesn't everyone keep multiple single-purpose machines around?)
With 68ks that's pretty much all you can do. I have the 840av for, well, AV, a 7100 (not a 68k but close) for burning classic HFS CDs (easier than using Toast 5 in OS X), a Performa 600 that runs my Rocket/33, and a IIci (with a 40MHz Turbo 040) that runs my scanner and photoshop 4 via a Radius Thunder IV GX. My NetBSD box is a Modified LC475 'Siamese' LC with a full 040/25 and NIC, with 3 hard disk bays :-)
The rest of the time it would be for playing my classic Mac games, like Marathon. 8) Oh yeah...Marathon...
Specially accelerated version is available for the 660/840av I seem to remember :) When it comes to using that DSP there is more than one way to skin a cat. :-)
I decided UNIX on All-In-One Macs is a bad idea becuase you can't turn the CRT off - thus the power draw is large. I had BSD running on my Mystic CC for a while but eventually gave up on that idea as it sat un-interacted with for ages at a time and I was scared I'd burn the screen in. Remember the brightness control in the CC is software controlled, and as far as I know there is no control to either turn it down or deactivate the screen in NetBSD.
Mostly such a machine would just be my luggable "hey lookit what I did" showpiece.
I have little need for such a thing - sadly - as there is no MUG locally that I can meet up with. That said, if I find a semi-local one I can go to the meetings now I have car :-)
Right now I'm using the SE/30, but I hate unhooking my primary server in order to give a presentation.
I have a 9600/G3 for that ;-)
And color is nicer. And with a screen mod, my friends could use it to play Marathon against me.
Hehe - the days when you didn't need broadband to have a decent MP bash :(
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