Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[dominic@miles.research.canon.oz.au (Dominic Cioccarelli)]

I don't know why you guys are getting so excited about a VGA card
for a GS. It _might_ have been interesting if it had been released 
three years ago, but really folks, can you see a market for this
card: I think not. There isn't enough GS software being developed to
support the second hand GS market (look at what a 2nd hand GS costs these
days <$300). How do you expect a VGA card costing >$300 with little
software to support it to be a viable project.

Furthermore, for it to work reasonably well, it will require an
accelerated GS, probably >14Mhz for reasonable performance at high
resolutions. Even if the card does do some of the graphics processing
on board, serious applications that use serious resolution
still need plenty of processing power. Thus, you are limiting your market  
to Rom 3 GSs with accelerators. Even then, in that minute nice of the
computer market, you still have no software support.

Thus, even though I admire Jawaid for giving it a go, I have serious  
doubts that anyone will ever see this card in production. I can't see how  
Jawaid can cover the R&D and production costs with such a small market.

Dom.

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