Will and Intel Mac running Windows work like a PC with Scope

cybermook · Post by **cybermook** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:35 am

This occured to me as I consider options. Right now I've got a PC slaved to my Mac mainly to house three Scope Cards and directly run the mixer. I'm running low on C: drive space, and I'm wondering if I were to buy an Intel Mac and move the Scope cards over to that and run Windows, whether the Scopes would work properly or not. It would be just fabulous if it did work. Does anyone have an idea?

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:41 am

No - new Macs are PCI-Express only.

cybermook · Post by **cybermook** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:26 pm

Oh wow, so that would be a factor in new PCs too.

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:01 pm

If you got one of those Magma PCI-E-to-PCI boxes (very expensive) and ran Windows, then it'd probably work. Then you could pretend that you're running Scope on a Mac, even though it's an Apple Wintel computer.

Shayne

Post by **hubird** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:01 pm

What I did is I got me a 2ndh. G4 MDD dual 1250 MHz and added good Corsair RAM.
It's the last mac that can Boot with OS9(.2.2).
Try to find one that got the Apple Fan updat set, which dealt with the infamous fan noise level.
or try this, it's said to be extremely good:
http://www.pcsilent.de/en_pdet_veraxm10m12.asp

There's a lot of information on this OS and slots issue, often related to the Magma box solution, try a search here

cheerzzz

seconds Shayne, seconds

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Post by **garyb** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:41 am

there are still motherboards with isa slots made.