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Re: Why not just reproduce the second sight card?



sfahey wrote:
  To: omashiroi
  Re: Why not just reproduce the second sight card?
  By: omashiroi to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Mar 19 2009 12:37 pm

 > There always seem to be discussions about how the second sight was not
 > perfect, not a great model, etc. But really why not just reproduce it
 > as is. It displayed IIgs video on VGA successfully. That is all anyone
 > is really looking for any more and it probably works good enough.

Because availability of the Oak chipset it uses is a problem.

I was going to mention that, but I assumed he meant reimplementation
in an FPGA or some such...though that would probably be harder than
starting from scratch, given the approach the Second Sight used.

-michael

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