Re: new video card - vga for apple 2 ?

[Charles <spammeister12345@aol.com>]

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? :)