Re: MacGS?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>Well performance is more than clock speed. I remember the talk saying that
:>there would be a funky scrolling screen setup. Recall that even a Classic
:>has higher vertical resolution than a IIgs. That alone would make the card
:>undesirable to my thinking.

: That's not what I read at all.  I read that the card has its own video which
: uses the AppleColor RGB monitor in 640x400 interlaced mode.  The
: IIGS video connects to the Duet card via a cable.  The video cable from
: the Duet would connect to the AppleColor RGB monitor.

: This gave you greater horizontal resolution than the Classic (as the IIGS
: always had) but the interlaced display also allowed the card to display
: the full vertical resolution of the Classic.

: This is similar to how the PCT combines video, except the PCT card is
: just a switcher for two video sources while the Duet actually mixes them.

:>When this was in the Apple II press, the price estimates I saw were around
:>$1400. You could get a Classic for $900 at that time. And what I read said
:>you could expect Classic style performance from the card. Hence there would
:>be little to no market for such a thing.

: The ones I saw said it would sell for $300 to $500 dollars.  Circtech
: canned the project because Apple didn't support the IIGS.  Didn't
: advertise it aggressively, etc.

That's the problem with vapor I guess. Everything I read said that the
cost would be more than that of a new Classic and that the video would
be a scrolling setup to fit on the screen. It could have changed from
beginning to end of the story. It definitely would not have sold having
the price and performance I read about, once it became apparent that
Apple would finally make Macs which mere mortals could afford.
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