Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

dominic@miles.research.canon.oz.au (Dominic Cioccarelli) writes:

>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.

  1) It's not me doing this
  2) You have your facts all wrong. All of them. 
  3) read the Second Sight info file before you get bent out of shape
  4) If I can't make a serious go of it, that's my problem, isn't it?

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