Mac Rasterops Drivers

[Jeff Walther]

>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:12:10 -0400
>From: Robert Borsuk <rborsuk at colourfull.com>

>On Apr 20, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Teo Zenios wrote:
>
>>  I hope you did not throw away anything too rare (if you have more
>>  to junk
>>  let me know). The cards I listed were just the DSP cards I have,
>>  probably
>>  have 50+ Nubus cards by now.
>>
>>  The 8*24GC is a nice card for an 030 (I don't have one yet). Has 2
>>  slots for
>>  Gworld RAM (it uses IIfx RAM, wish I could find GWORLD for my
>>  Thunder/24
>>  cards). I hear the AMD GPU on the GC gets toasty.
>>
>>  TZ
>Teo,
>	A bunch of storm cards, Xceed video cards,  etc.  I think I might
>have kept one or two of each.  I would have to see.
>Are you in the states?  I have a box on documentation that I've been
>looking for a home.
>I wanted someone who might have an interest in Nubus cards, like
>yourself.  If you are, send me your address off list.
>
>Rob

Rob,

Amongst the SE/30 collection crowd there is near fanatical interest 
in the old Xceed Color 30, Color 30HR, and MacroColor 30 -- the cards 
which install in an SE/30 and are compatible with the Grayscale board.

I've been slowly working my way around to designing a new card to do 
the same function.   FPGAs are fast and affordable and SRAM or fast 
SDRAM is also affordable in the quantities needed.

If any of your documentation is related to hardware design as opposed 
to user guides and user manuals I would be very grateful if I could 
get a look at it.

One specific thing I've been wondering about is how one implements 
quickdraw acceleration.   Was there an Apple guide to doing this in 
some of the developer materials, or was it something which each 
company worked  out on their own -- deciding which Quickdraw calls to 
trap and send to the video card?

Jeff Walther