Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[radelgre@cnct.com (Rob Del Greco)]

Dominic Cioccarelli (dominic@miles.research.canon.oz.au) wrote:

: You are missing the point. What I ment was that you will need a fast GS if  
: you are going to use the card with any serious applications (like CAD,  
: DTP, etc.) and Rom 1 GS's can't be accelerated past about 8Mhz.

: It seems that I have sturred up a bit of a hornets nest here. Let me put  
: my comments in context. I have been an Apple II supporter since about  
: 1984. I currently have 3 Apple II's, (A IIe, II+ and a GS will all options  
: including 120Mb fast SCSI hard drive, 4meg simm ram, etc.). Thus, I am not  
: your average Apple II critic. I have tried in the past (when Apples had a  
: stronger following than they do now) to develop products for Apple II's  
: with limited success due to the small market. All that I was trying to do  
: is pass my experience on and make sure that you realized the commercial  
: realities. If you have worked everything out, then fine, go for it. But I  
: wont be forking out US$180 until I see some software support. Now, before  
: I get flamed, I know this is the chicken and egg problem, but I have spent  
: nearly $4000 on my GS system and the state of the Apple II market now  
: means that I can't even get 1/4 of that if I wanted to sell it. Thus, I  
: have to consider carefully before I pour more money into a black hole that  
: I know it will never reappear from.

First, if you spend your money wisely, you cxan move a lot of hardware 
from a GS to a PC. I have a SCSI hd, an external 9600 bps modem, I would 
get an SVGA monitor, external speakers, and many other things I could 
switch over if I wanted to. 

2nd, I never knew that ROM 01s couldn't go past 8 mhz. Why is this?

ROb Del Greco
radelgre@cnct.com