On 9/3/11 04:14, "Valter Prahlad" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il giorno 7-03-2011 22:43, pdimage ha scritto:
>
>> I'm in the UK and I can usually pick one up for around £10 - £20 on ebay
>> - which is around 15 - 30 dollars I guess - plus postage. Postage to the US
>> via airmail is around 8 dollars. Here's a very nice recent example of a 9800
>> pro on the XT board with the R360 GPU.
>
> Yeah, really nice card for a cheap price... :-)
> but it's from a PC. :-/
>
> Do you mean it's possible using such card into a Mac?
> (using the right drivers, or with a little hardware tinkering maybe?)
Yes - it's a fairly easy convert to mac for anyone into flashing bios -
no drivers required and no hardware tinkering if you use the reduced rom
though you may lose functionality if booting OS9. If you want to turn it
into a full blown mac card with the full mac bios some hardware tinkering
may or may not be necessary depending on the size of the bios chip already
soldered on the card. Plus the stock PC cards like the 9800 usually have
faster speeds than the stock mac equivalent so you can clock them up. Here's
a guide to the card which are convertible...
<http://themacelite.wikidot.com/9800-working>
Pete
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