P r e f a c e
Thank you for choosing an XLR8 product. You have
purchased a product from an award-winning company.
These products are fully compatible with PowerPC 7300,
7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600, Power Computing’s
PowerTower
™
, PowerCenter
™
, and PowerWave
™,
Umax
®
S900 and J700, and the DayStar Millennium and
Genesis MP 750, 800, 900, 932, systems.
This manual is designed for several of XLR8’s products:
• Point&Scroll – The fully-programmable XLR8
Point&Scroll mouse features its “hot” red scrolling
wheel that helps turn your cursor into a pointer.
• DualPort USB – The DualPort USB breathes new life
into any PCI-based PowerMacintosh by giving it two
full-power USB ports. It also can be used on PCI-
based Power Macs with USB built in to give an
additional 12Mbit/sec USB bandwidth.
• G3 Control software – The XLR8 MACh Speed G3
Control helps all G3 equipped Macs run at their
fastest potential. By testing the backside cache, it can
automatically determine the optimal cache settings
for your Mac.
• PowerPack software– The XLR8 PowerPack contains
both PowerControl and PowerFrax. PowerControl is
a troubleshooting an informational tool, whereas
PowerFrax is a benchmarking application that
generates fractals.
• IceView Hub – For Mac USB, this 4-port hub delivers
power and commands to upstream and downstream
devices.
About PowerFrax software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing PowerFrax software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using PowerFrax software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Function of the PowerFrax tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
PowerFrax Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Multiprocessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
PowerFrax Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Mandelbrot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Julia Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
3D Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Chapter 5 - IceView Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing the IceView hub for Mac USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 6 - Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Limited warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
End-User License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Contacting XLR8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
