Re: Mega II Chip on Mac?

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

    Okay...Do you think that Video Overlay Card on the Apple //e's DHGR 
pixels are identical to Apple IIgs?

Bryan Parkoff

"mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mar 27, 4:28 pm, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
>
>> If I remember my Apple II history correctly, the Mega II was actually
>> developed some time before the IIgs (circa 1985 or early 1986), as part
>> of a project to further integrate the hardware in the IIe and IIc. It
>> wasn't used for its original purpose, then was acquired by the IIgs
>> development team.
>
> There was clearly an alternative vision for the II product line that
> failed to be realised. It's easy to see how the product line could
> have been rationalised down to the IIgs and IIc+ by 1988.
>
> I've always enjoyed playing with the idea of how things would have
> been different had the IIe been discontinued with the IIgs's
> introduction.
>
> Of course in this alternate reality, the IIc+ is a IIgs sans slots,
> which is what it should have been rather than a simple response to the
> Laser 128 EX, IMHO
>
> Matt
>