NuBus Video Cards

E-Machines Futura II SX

The E-Machines Futura II SX is a 7" NuBus card compatible with 68K- and PowerPC-based Macs running up to System 8.1.

Details

The card provides standard QuickDraw acceleration and supports the following resolution/color combinations:

E-Machines Futura cards have a rotary switch for setting the resolution. The following is a list of switch settings. This setting is overridden when using a supported monitor with Apple's sense coding.

    resolution    refresh            monitors
1   832 x 624     67 Hz              T16
2   1024 x 808    71 Hz              T19/TX
3   640 x 480     60 Hz              any VGA
4   1024 x 768    60 Hz              any XVGA
5   832 x 624     75 Hz              T16a-E16
6   1024 x 768    75 Hz              E16, SuperMac 19", others
7   640 x 480     67 Hz              E16, others
8   1024 x 768    75 Hz              RasterOps 19", others
C   13"/16"       Dual Resolution    E16
D   16"/19"       Dual Resolution    T16II/E16
E   19"/21"       Dual Resolution    T19II
F   16"/21"       Dual Resolution    T16II

Notes

Other Resources

Field Reports

"I wish to tell you that the machine in which I installed this card is a Macintosh IIci with a Daystar Turbo 601 PPC upgrade card, so it can run Mac OS 8.1. It is working in a 640 x 480 resolution with millions of colors."