Re: Amiga Scan Doubler + IIGS?

[Blake Patterson <bwpatter@bellatlantic.net>]

In article <adfs7f$322$1@news3.dti.ne.jp>,
 "Jim Maricondo" <jimm@NOSPAM.uranus.dti.ne.jp> wrote:

> Recently I've been itching to get my IIGS to work with a VGA monitor.  I've
> been doing a lot of searching for different options and stumbled upon a
> number of posts on this subject already in Google's archive of Usenet,
> mainly about trying to get an Amiga Scan Doubler to work with a IIGS.  It
> seems like a number of people have said "It is theoretically possible," but
> nobody has actually successfully done it.  How surprising!
> 
> It's actually kind of surprising (well it was at least to me) that the Amiga
> community is way ahead of the IIGS community in this field!
> 

Why?  There are Amigas running 68060's @ 75MHz -- as fast as Pentium 
133's or so.  I have a IIgs as well, but these Amigas are far more 
functional as far as modern-style apps than the IIgs.  Seems to stand to 
reason that they would be "ahead" of the 2MHz GS...


bp

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