{"id":1438,"date":"2018-05-06T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:49:58","slug":"radius-thunder-iv-gx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/radius-thunder-iv-gx\/","title":{"rendered":"Radius Thunder IV GX"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\"><p>I recently acquired a <strong>Nubus Radius Thunder IV GX 1600<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s running nicely in my <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_IIfx\">Macintosh IIfx<\/a>, which I keep around for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nostalgia\">poorly defined reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The primary reason for writing this article was to state that it <em>does<\/em> work under System 6, or at least 6.0.8. Running 1600 x 1200 in 24 bit color in a operating system released at the same time as Windows 2.0 is certainly amusing. However I couldn&#8217;t get QuickDraw acceleration to work, so the desktop felt sluggish, with acres of 24bit pixels taking literal seconds to redraw. Looking at System 6 desktop at 1600 x 1200 really does remind you how much real-estate this used to be. Larger default fonts have blunted the vast feel of such resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>Under System 7.5.5 on the same box it&#8217;s a different story, QuickDraw acceleration moves things along nicely on the desktop, though the Control Panel apps are a little quirky. PhotoShop 3.0 with the PhotoEngine plugin performs well, adding some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MMX_(instruction_set)\">MMX<\/a> like zip to the standard filters.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately it&#8217;s not all roses. My KVM setup or Mac-&gt;VGA adaptor seems to add a little ghosting at 1600x1200x65hz, and there is a bit of flicker from time to time, and sync-on-green issues seem to randomly kick in. And if I&#8217;m being totally honest, a lot of vintage software starts running into issues with a desktop that large, and most games chug badly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently acquired a Nubus Radius Thunder IV GX 1600, and it&#8217;s running nicely in my Macintosh IIfx, which I keep around for poorly defined reasons. The primary reason for writing this article was to state that it does work under System 6, or at least 6.0.8. 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