Re: Apple //e hardware question

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, 23 May 2013 13:23:48 UTC+10, Charlie  wrote:
 
> By "multi-head" do you mean two video outputs?  If so, I have two video 
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> outputs on the Carte Blanche (the original and my 12-bit color mod.) but 
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> only the 12-bit is very useful with SHR. Hmm, I suppose I could squeeze 
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> another 12-bit output in there.

I mean you have two independent video outputs and framebuffers, meaning you could in theory have a 'desktop' spanning multiple displays, or use one of them for text output whilst debugging. I used to use a videoterm card to do this when developing on my IIe, though these days I just use an SSC plugged into my laptop (one less CRT cluttering up my workspace)

> > It would be straightforward to make your video card VOC compatible if you're doing it on a Carte Blanche.
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> Yes, but I think I'll stick with just the IIgs features.
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> Right now I'm wondering if it's worth it to implement scan-line 
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> interrupts.

It would be cool to be able to display 3200 colour images I suppose, but there'd be very few CPU cycles left over to do anything useful on a 1Mhz 6502 ...

Matt