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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:48 pm |
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I had a dead blue G3 and took out its video card, the stock 8MB Rage 128 PCI and tried it out in my 6500/250. It worked flawlessly but didn't give any extra speedup over my beautiful old 3DFX Voodoo 2 card which works with 7.
But here's the reason I tried it! I own a widescreen LCD display and I'd like to get the 6500 plugged into it... but it won't do widescreen resolutions 
This means I can't drive the screen at its native 1440x900! Augh! 9.2.2 on my G4 runs it flawlessly
I'm running 9.0.4 on the 6500 right now. This doesn't work with 8.6 either. Are there any methods/tips/hacks to make the classic OS run at seemingly "non-standard" resolutions? I'm totally not afraid to dig in with ResEdit!
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Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 6:45 pm |
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Try this:
http://download.system7today.c.....er.img.Hqx
It was a project some of us here were working on to get widescreen displays working. It seemed to work fine for me.
There's a lot of source code in there, but if I remember correctly, what you want is the file named ~Resolution Manager in your Extensions folder, and the control panel named Resolution Manager in your Control Panels folder.
Use the control panel to set your resolution and there you go.
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:12 pm |
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dpaanlka wrote:
Try this:
http://download.system7today.c.....er.img.Hqx
It was a project some of us here were working on to get widescreen displays working. It seemed to work fine for me.
There's a lot of source code in there, but if I remember correctly, what you want is the file named ~Resolution Manager in your Extensions folder, and the control panel named Resolution Manager in your Control Panels folder.
Use the control panel to set your resolution and there you go. |
That's handy. I am going to be to be doing a 6500 project soon and there will be a video card added eventually and I want to be able to retire some of my CRTs and replace them with widescreen LCD's.
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