Re: new video card - vga for apple 2 ?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Charles wrote:

>In article <5ad50d67.0409211906.3f04314a@posting.google.com>, 
>aiiadict@gmail.com says...
>> spammeister12345@aol.com (Spammeister) wrote in message
>news:<c84b118e.0409210922.1b6a076b@posting.google.com>...
>> > There has been discussion off and on about creating a vga compatible
>> > video card for the II line. 
>> 
>> Even if you have VGA for the Apple II, I can't see it as being
>> any use.  Do you want to view video on a VGA screen,
>> or have higher resolution?  
>> 
>> How about clipping all the video circuits out of an Apple II
>> and building a card to display video to a vga?  I don't know
>> what exactly you would have to clip, but you shoud be able
>> to turn a IIe motherboard into a 6502/data/address bus without
>> all the II specific hardware features.
>> 
>> Or make a card with NES (nintendo 8 bit) graphics chips.  The
>> resolution is OK and the graphics are faster and look nicer (color!)
>> on a NES.
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
>
>Are you sure you're not related to Michael Mahon? :)

No, he isn't.  ;-)

But I'm not sure I get the joke...

-michael

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