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The Radius PrecisionColor 24XP card is a 12' NuBus card compatiblewith 680x0- and PowerPC-based Macs running up to Mac OS 8.5.1. It may becompatible with higher versions of the Mac OS, but no information forMac OS 8.6 is available at this time, and it's doubtful that the cardis compatible with Mac OS 9.
Current Version: 1.0 (October 28, 2003) / 1.1.3 (November 14, 2006) / 2.1.6 (May 12, 2009) X11 for Mac OS X - from Apple itself - offers a complete X Window System implementation for running X11-based applications on Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (users of prior versions of Mac OS X should use XFree86, and Tiger users have the latest version on their. The introduction of Mac OS X on March 24th, 2001 was the fulfillment of a promise made over a decade earlier—a promise to Mac users that they would get a brand new operating system,.
Hands On: Chris Lawson
PrecisionColor 24XP tested in a MacIIcx running System 7.1.0 and the QuickColor control panel fromRadiusWare 3.3 installed.
The following video benchmarks were obtained at 640 x 480 resolutionusing Speedometer 4.02:
The 'Toby' card is Apple's unaccelerated Macintosh II Video Card; it wasn't tested in 4-bitmode. The PrecisionColor 24XP was tested with acceleration off and on.Performance was significantly improved with acceleration enabled: 3.5%faster at 1-bit, 16% faster at 4-bit, 40% faster at 8-bit, and a veryimpressive 90% faster at 16-bit.
The Apple 8•24GC acceleratedvideo card is shown for comparison. I wasn't tested on the 4-bitsetting, doesn't support 16-bit video, and won't work in 24-bit mode onthe IIcx. On the tests we did run, it easily outperforms thePrecisionColor 24XP.
Worth noting: It might just be my card (ROM version 2.0), but thiscard does not do millions of colors at 640 x 480 in the IIcx -it has a bunch of horizontal lines and wrong colors on the screen andis nearly illegible. It works fine at thousands and below except for2-bit, which is not an option. The card really shines at thousands ofcolors but is still only good for running a second monitor in a Quadra,since the onboard video in Quadras is pretty fast on its own.
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One of the nicest features of this card is the Radius PowerSavercontrol panel - it works fine with my Apple High-Resolution RGBmonitor, turning it off after the specified period of time. I don'tknow if it actually cuts power consumption - I don't have a way to testit - but it apparently turns the CRT off.
Details
The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration. The RadiusPrecisionColor 24XP supports the following resolutions in 24-bitcolor:
- 512 x 384
- 640 x 480
- 832 x 624
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Software
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- Links to Radius and SuperMac software on Gamba'ssite.
- QuickColor 3.3 (part of RadiusWare 3.3) works fine under any Mac OSup to and including Mac OS 9.1.
- Dynamic Desktop crashes the Mac OS at startup when installed on MacOS 8.6 or higher. SwitchRes (shareware) works to change resolutionsinstead.