VGA for the IIgs - Different Approach?

[IUnknown <stevementzer@gmail.com>]

Just thinking out loud here.....

- expansion card
- shadows the IIgs memory
- some sort of glue logic / prom to package the active frame buffer
(and other state) and send it out as an ethernet broadcast @ 15fps
- software on windows/mac that listens for the broadcast and displays
on a PC

Not an easy project at all - but might be cheap enough to produce.

- logic for handling dithering, etc would be entirely client-side.
upgrading the logic/fixing bugs is not a firmware/hardware update....
but software.
- 100mbps is plenty fast enough to produce the 'video stream' @ 15hz
and would have low enough latency as well.
- no IP stack is required... simple ethernet frame broadcasts.

Overall, some combination of FPGA, ethernet chip, prom, coprocessor,
buffer memory and assorted logic would be required.....