Re: VGA card?

[jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax)]

Violens Schultz (hchan@neptune.uucp) wrote:
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: distinctly remember someone saying (not necessarilly on InterNet) that a
video
: card for the GS would be impossible or too much of a hardeware nightmare
: (swapping chips, or some non-sense).  There have also been statements such
as,

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A VGA card is coming out in few weeks or so.  Quality Computers is already
taking preorders for $180 (+/- a dollar).  It's called the Second Sight
and Sequential is doing it.  You know, the people who are maintaining the
RamFAST, did the MegaBuff, and a variety of other hardware goodies.

The press release for it is somewhere around.

: But the pertinent question is:  who will really manufacture such a card?
I've
: heard rumors for so long that I can't put much stock in any of them.  BUT,
in

You're probably taking about the TurboRez by RezTek.  That's still in the
air.

: the event such a card IS to be manufactured, what I posted last is something
 I
: would like to have in such a card.  But 24 bit video doesn't come cheap, and
: combined with a lack of Apple II support by so many companies. . .  I think
you
: can figure out the rest. . .

You've been a little behind on the latest developments. :)  It's isn't
exactly 24-bit VGA, but it's 1024x768x256 VGA (at it's maximum resolution)
which is better than nothing at all.

Joseph
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