Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-11-13, 22:09:Were you ever able to get this card working in a PC? (...)
Long time since I've played with the card, but sadly no dice with it on PC. If you ever get it to work, please let me know.
quicknick wrote on 2025-11-13, 23:38:Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-11-13, 22:09:Were you ever able to get this card working in a PC? (...)
Long time since I've played with the card, but sadly no dice with it on PC. If you ever get it to work, please let me know.
Thanks following up. I will definitely post here if I ever find anything.
I did just stumble on an interest post from 25 years ago though...
https://slashdot.org/story/00/09/22/2047242/n … upport-for-macs
Number Nine Revolution IV Support for Macs? Posted by Cliff on Friday September 22, 2000 @06:30PM from the falling-off-of-cloud […]
Number Nine Revolution IV Support for Macs?
Posted by Cliff on Friday September 22, 2000 @06:30PM from the falling-off-of-cloud-#-nine dept.
daniell asks:
"Does anyone have a number9 revolutionIV working correctly in a MacPPC under either MacOS, Linux or NetBSD? I know that a Voodoo3 PCI card for a PC can be flashed to have its BIOS (x86) replaced with OpenFirmware/OpenBoot (Forth), then you use the drivers and it works on a Mac, under Linux PPC, or MacOS. I figured you'd just have to download the latest Mac firmware for the revolution IV (mine was packaged for a PC, but the card has a sticker on it that says MAC) and flash it in place. This is pretty seemless...the card is detected and updated; going back to PC BIOS works fine too. However, the Mac drivers for the revolution IV claim they can't detect a revIV card, even though the firmware upgrader did. If anyone has a working Mac revIV card, which drivers and or firmware are you using for it and what needs to be done to get it working? Has anyone found a description of what the one jumper on the card does?"
I know this is talking about the Revolution IV, but I guess it's possible that some cards labeled as having a Mac BIOS may actually have a PC BIOS? I'm not sure if these would be Formac cards or if they'd be something else.
Still, something to keep an eye out for. 😀
If anyone has an Imagine 128 II laying around that looks like it has a Mac BIOS, it might still be worth dumping it and uploading here just in case.
