Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

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"Jason Whorton" <jason at microxl.com> wrote:

>Hi.  An Apple IIgs can read some CD-ROM discs, but it cannot read DVD's
>or make any type of CD or DVD.  It takes a fair amount of computing
>power to create a CD or DVD, and unfortunately, our beloved Apple II
>line was stopped way before it ever had that much power.

Not really.  If drivers and controllers for the task existed,
it would not be a problem for the IIGS.  Packet writing
(as in InCD or DirectCD) would be no problem for the
IIGS.  It does not take nearly the uninterrupted transfer
bandwidth of a traditional CD burn.  Even with normal
CD burning, with buffer underun technology this is
much less a problem.

For MPEG compression and decompression, there
are external boxes even for the PC that take over the
function freeing the PC CPU.  Of course these won't
work on the IIGS as is but IF the IIGS development
resources of the 80's were still present, it may be
possible to have an equivalent.

This things are not possible not because of technical
limitations but because of lack of developers due to
lack of a market.