Re: Accelerator / VGA Graphics card

[Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:10:23 -0400, Bill Garber wrote:

> How about incorporating a Disk II image emulation mode,
> whereby all necessary disks are loaded onto 800k or ramdisk
> and then no slow-down is necessary. Would require a Smart
> port device driver of some type.

I doubt it's truly necessary, although it certainly would
speed up programs that do a lot of Disk II access. No Smartport
driver would be necessary because the emulator could trap the
disk I/O and return cached data.

One problem is that getting this right for copy protected disks
would be "challenging".

Personally I wouldn't consider this as a feature for the
original production of the card, but since the card firmware
pretty much has to be user-upgradable anyway, it could always
be added later.

-Sheldon