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Can the Apple 8*24GC acceleration be enabled under Mac OS 7.6 and later?

April 26, 2017acceleration Apple enabled later Mac OS

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Can the Apple 8*24GC acceleration be enabled under Mac OS 7.6 and later?

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Surprisingly enough, yes. Though Apple doesn’t support it, Leon Sargent discovered that the ATI Graphics Accelerator extension will allow the 8*24GC to work fully under Mac OS 7.6 and later if the Mac has been upgraded with a PowerPC accelerator. The ATI extension is written in PPC-native code and does nothing on pure 68K Macs.