Re: video card for IIGS

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>> present. The card will also not work in an Apple IIe (unless there is a
>> different firmware version I'm not aware of; anyone know?).
>
>They did adverse a different "version" for the IIe when it was still 
>available. 

    I seem to remember that, it shipped with only 512K on-board. Did it have
any other hardware differences, or a different firmware ROM?

>However, both mine and our user groups work fine in a IIe
>except  of course in Double-hi-res mode. I haven't had it in a IIe in a number
>of years but I seem to recall that it wouldn't work in conjunction with the 
>TransWarp. 

    Hmm, interested. I know the card is technically supposed to work in an
Apple IIe, though I figured it was something that hadn't yet been supported,
such as Double-Hi-Res, Fill-Mode, 3200 color mode or (my memory is a little
fuzzy here) 24-bit color in SS-native mode. Future firmware updates were 
supposed to address these, but they never happened.

    The manual does mention it working in a IIe, though when I tried plugging
into an Enhanced IIe, all I could display was 40 columns text mode. I'm
fairly sure I removed most other cards to eliminate the possibility of
incompatibilities too.

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca