Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[jlodoen@shell.portal.com (Jeff M Lodoen)]

Dave Roberts (daver@drift.winternet.com) wrote:
: Nathan Mates (nathan@cco.caltech.edu) wrote:
: :    Ummm. From what I've heard, it's an 80186 on board. Plus, don't
: : existing PCT users have to jump through hoops and drive cables all
: : over just to get the video to work. I think that the PCT board handles
: : all of the EGA graphics onboard, and it's be more of a hack than I'd
: : like to consider (I don't have one btw, and am NOT offering to learn
: : 80186 asm and try and support such a beast)...

: 	Yep. I have one, and there are at least 5 or 6 cables running around
: to support it, along with an extra card to handle switching between video
: modes. BTW, the processor is actually a Z80 (?), and the graphics are CGA,
: not EGA, though they could have easily done EGA on the GS monitor.

Not a Z80 (that's for CP/M).. I believe it used an NEC clone of Intel's
processor. V-something.

: 	Sorry that you won't be on IRC anymore, Nate. But it does tend
: to suck your free time, if you're not careful.

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