Accelerated LC PDS video card.
Does such a card exist. I've looked on Lowendmac and it seems all the ones they show are unaccelerated ones.
They didn't have that one listed. A good amount of resolutions avaliable to it too. Can't really find much info on it aside from that, though.
The Weitek "Power 9000" video chip visible in the photos was a fairly popular "Windows Accelerator" chip for VESA VL local bus VGA cards. (Late 486 era.) This is actually a fairly interesting use for it since when used for PCs it was always pared with a simple VGA chip (since it lacked any VGA register compatibility). This lacks the VGA chip and just has a "generic" TI RAMDAC and... I'm guessing that big fat XILINX chip on the back does most of the work adapting it to the Mac's PDS slot.
Clever, anyway.
--Peace
Yes, the XILINX chip does all of the translation between the video and the PDS slot.
I also own one of the better QuickDraw accelerated LC PDS graphics cards, a MicroConversions 1724PD, which has some neat features such as hardware panning and zoom, a virtual desktop feature, and resolution switching on-the-fly.
it only works with a LC III PDS slot though, unfortunately.
I got a Micron Xceed Color Fusion and its quickdraw accelerated.