Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Haynes wrote:
>
> >I recommend continuing with the graphics card.  There are lots of people
who
> >would line up to get either VGA output or clear 80 column text on a
regular
> >NTSC display using an RCA cable.
>
> A video card that precisely echoed Apple II video modes on a VGA
> monitor would apparently have a lot of people's interest.

Well, it would sure have mine anyway!

> Sharp 80-column text on an NTSC color monitor is not possible,
> because of the design of the monitor video circuits.  The only
> "exception" is the AppleColor Composite display, which has
> unique circuitry for switching out the chroma filters when it
> detects the absence of a color burst.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." ...
    Lord Kelvin - British mathematician, physicist, and president of the
British Royal Society, c. 1895.

Hee hee... :-)

Tim