Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[ajmcd4@nella30.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr AJP Mcdonald)]

Dominic Cioccarelli (dominic@miles.research.canon.oz.au) wrote:
: I don't know why you guys are getting so excited about a VGA card
: for a GS. It _might_ have been interesting if it had been released 
: three years ago, but really folks, can you see a market for this
: card: I think not. There isn't enough GS software being developed to
: support the second hand GS market (look at what a 2nd hand GS costs these
: days <$300). How do you expect a VGA card costing >$300 with little
: software to support it to be a viable project.

: Furthermore, for it to work reasonably well, it will require an
: accelerated GS, probably >14Mhz for reasonable performance at high
: resolutions. Even if the card does do some of the graphics processing
: on board, serious applications that use serious resolution
: still need plenty of processing power. Thus, you are limiting your market  
: to Rom 3 GSs with accelerators. Even then, in that minute nice of the
: computer market, you still have no software support.

: Thus, even though I admire Jawaid for giving it a go, I have serious  
: doubts that anyone will ever see this card in production. I can't see how  
: Jawaid can cover the R&D and production costs with such a small market.

: Dom.

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