Re: CMD products for GS (NTSC->RGB?, Scan Doublers, 20MHz)

[ddmw@hunterlink.net.au (Marc Walters)]

Awww. After all the years of Apple users taunting us poor, witless
Commodore 64 users, you finally come crawling...   :)

CMD may be your best (last?) hope. If you can come up with enough
numbers (market size, users, rate of upgrades, etc) to show CMD
that they might make some maney out of the GS userbase, and pester
them enough to realise that you've turned out to be good guys after
all, then maybe, just maybe, they might do something.

Better chance still if they don't have to spend on R&D- if there are
already existing plans for the requested hardware CMD could just
build the stuff in their workshop in the role as a 'job shop' (or
whatever the American term is).

I find it pretty shocking to see that there is next to no commercial
support in the upgrade/hardware area? Whatever happened to the likes
of Warp Tech, and their competitors?

Oh, slightly off topic here, whatever happened to the rights to
Apple2 GEOS? Did anyone manage to get hold of Geoworks regarding
the release of it as Freeware or whatever? (re: a thread about
12 months ago)

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
[snip]
: The Commodore 64 and Amiga folks are still very active and diehard users.
: I wonder if they could be persuaded to build a product line for the GS?
: Think about it, there can be a market here.
: 
: A 20MHz 65C816 based accelerator for the GS with 16MB of SIMM slots.
: 
: A scan doubler card for connection of GS video to SVGA monitors without
: Second Sight problems and at lower costs.
: 
: An NTSC/RGB/S-video three way converter for the GS.
: 
: A source of 20MHz 65C816 chips for current Zip/Transwarp cards.
: 
: So, CMD, here we are.  Please build for us!

Marc "the lurking C64'er" Walters
mwalters@attila.apana.org.au