Re: Accelerator / VGA Graphics card

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message
news:X6wyb.220574$jy.209932@clgrps13...
:
: Lockar wrote:
: >    It does sound like you are building a new computer here.
Why not
: > just do a PCI card that could work in a PC or Mac. Perhaps
work in
: > both.  Like the file://e card for the mac.  Now I know the
ROMS might be
: > problam, but most people that would be interested in buying
such a card
: > would actually have a couple of file://gs's around.  So just
pull the ROMs
: > off them.  Although I do see the problem of would the card
use ROM 01
: > or ROM 03 or both.
: >
: >     Now, I konw this stuff is way over my head, but that's
what I am
: > thinking after I read all these messages about a card for the
Apple II.
:
: Not much point in building a PCI card when you can likely run
an
: emulator even faster. Now if you had a PCI card that let you
use
: Apple II floppy drives with an emulator then that might have
merit.

Wayne, I've been reading about parallel ports and
how they operate, and it appears that interfacing
an Apple II disk drive may be a possibility. I'll
let you know if I come up with a plan for that.
Others will need to incorporate it into their EMs,
but I feel I can more than likely do the hardware
end.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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