Re: Why no Mosaic for Apple IIgs?

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt) writes:

>Because by any modern standard (such as that on machines running Mosaic),
>the GS graphics are just this side of pathetic.  The GS does 640x200x16
>dithered colors in the mode you'd want to use for Mosaic, whereas on my PC
>at work I run 1280x1024x256 pure colors at a high refresh rate.  If you want
>res and colors like that on a GS, you'll want to wait for the Second Sight
>or TurboRez, although the GS's outdated 1 mhz I/O architecture will seriously
>cramp the style of speedy screen updating.

  From Mr. Apple II to Mr. Anti-Apple II in a very short time frame.

  Ah well. In any event, Ian's comments about the 1MHz architecture
of the Apple II do not apply to Second Sight's on-board 20MHz
processor - the graphics routines for something like Mosaic would
all run _on the card's_ processor anyway, fonts would be loaded into
the Second Sight's voluminous video memory, and transfered to 
display memory at very high speed indeed.

  Mosaic is a pretty complex application, to be sure, but with Second
Sight and a QuickDraw patch it's certainly doable, and doable well.
Let's see what the future holds in store!

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