Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

And on that note...I'd like to see some sort of convertor that would allow 
the use of a pc keyboard on an ADB.  That way, with the VGA card that Alex 
will bring us, I can put my GS on my KVM!!!!


"Charles" <spammeister12345@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <chptsk$9r3$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>,
> timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca says...
>>
>> "Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com> wrote in message
>> news:FYZ%c.205854$pTn.98645@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> > > The thing is I have made that graphic card around the HD63484 ACRT
>> > > controller. At theat tome (1994) quite a nice graphic processort.
>> > > Unfortunatly it is no longer available. S
>> >
>> > http://www.innovasic.com/pdfs/IA63484prelim.pdf
>> >
>> >
>> > Glenn
>> >
>>
>> Good find there, Glenn!
>>
>> Alex, I can't encourage you enough to finish your project from 1994.  The
>> one huge gaping hole in the Apple II enthusiast/expanion/hobbyist world 
>> is a
>> decent (hopefully affordable) video card that can open us up to VGA 
>> output
>> (Michael: thanks for the details about the rasterization limits.  I would
>> happily accept them myself, and have seen what it looks like on the NEC
>> Multisync that can hook up to a stock IIgs).
>>
>> Just think of the service you would be doing to the Apple II world!  Free 
>> us
>> from the shackles of the (dwindling supply of) Apple RGB Monitors.  Give 
>> us
>> access to VGA LCD displays, VGA projectors, 9" full colour monitors, VGA
>> HUDs, etc....
>>
>> Your name would go down in Apple II history as the man who really made
>> "Apple ][ Forever!" a real possibility.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
> I second the impassioned plea from Tim.  I hope one day to sit side by
> side with Tim looking into my own Apple II displaying on a vga monitor
> and screaming at the top of my lungs:
>
>
>
> FREE AT LAST!! FREE AT LAST!! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY (AND ALEX!), WE'RE FREE
> AT LAST!!!!
>
> Go Alex!