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Re: Apple //e hardware question



On 5/22/2013 10:40 PM, mdj wrote:
On Thursday, 23 May 2013 12:24:49 UTC+10, Charlie  wrote:

I mostly use the IIgs but noticed that Super HiRes would fit easily on a

my //e (using the Carte Blanche card).  I wonder if Apple was thinking

of putting SHR on a //e at one time.

Only by selling VOCs I'd imagine :-)

Yeah, I guess you're right.


Another cool feature the VOC had was you could select the $E0 bank (or the main memory if it was in a IIe) instead.

I've been looking at that technote and saw that feature. That would have been nice on a IIgs and would be very easy to do on the Carte Blanche.

This way you could have a "multi-head" IIgs, though I don't know that anyone ever tried to modify the toolbox routines to make this possible.

By "multi-head" do you mean two video outputs? If so, I have two video outputs on the Carte Blanche (the original and my 12-bit color mod.) but only the 12-bit is very useful with SHR. Hmm, I suppose I could squeeze another 12-bit output in there.

It would be straightforward to make your video card VOC compatible if you're doing it on a Carte Blanche.

Yes, but I think I'll stick with just the IIgs features.
Right now I'm wondering if it's worth it to implement scan-line interrupts.

Charlie