Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[ajmcd4@nella30.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr AJP Mcdonald)]

Lim Thye Chean (ltchean@iss.nus.sg) wrote:
: Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@netcom.com) wrote:
: : daver@drift.winternet.com (Dave Roberts) writes:

: : >	An 8MHz 65816 would be ok tho =) Besides, from what I understand,
: : >SecondSight has some leet on-board blitter type stuff, so you could
: : >offload a buncha picture data and move it around on-board. I won't say
: : >too much tho, that's for Jawaid =)

: :   This is correct. The Second Sight has a 20 MHz processor that can
: : blit data around at 5MB/sec.

: That will be cool! Now I am considering writing a game.

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I gotta question.... can the on-board blitter move data from main memory
to on-board memory, or can it only move around internal (on-board)
memory??

Hang on... i got another question... if it can move around main memory,
could you write programs that use it to move sound data into DOC Ram?  I
know it sounds dodge... but it would be pretty cool... huhh huhu

donz!