2 Apr
2009
2 Apr
'09
4:10 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Dersch" <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 2:59 AM
Subject: Looking for Radius Rocket software <ahem> key...
I picked up a Radius "Stage II" Rocket, which
appears to be a rather nifty
"accelerator" of sorts which is more or less a second 68040 mac on a nubus
card.
I've found the necessary software to drive it, RocketShare 1.3.1, but it
wants a serial number from me before it'll start up... I don't have the
original software disks, but I'd like to think owning the physical card
would grant me rights to it, since they were only sold together. Anyone
out there have a serial for this they can share?
(Why would software that requires possession of a $3500 card in order to
do anything require a serial number? Gah...)
Thanks,
Josh
The original Rockets were shipped with Rocketware, that software took over
the machine like a normal accelerator would. When Radius came out with the
Stage 2 Rocket they only let you use RocketShare which setup the addon as a
second computer with its own OS running on a virtual HD (you could have as
many running as you had rockets installed).
They sold Rocketshare to the people who owned the original Rockets as well.
I at one time had 2 040/25 rockets running on a IIfx for kicks (since taken
out). Basically they didn't want the old users to pirate RocketShare so they
did the serial number thing. Its all about money.