Re: TurboRez

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

limtc wrote:
> How do they do a portable GS without Apple blessing? They don't even
> have the source code (if this can be done with ease, why nobody else
> did it as hobbyist project)?

I presume they just cloned the hardware (a difficult enough task)
so that GSOS and other apps would just run...

The only tricky part (aside from hardware patents) is the ROM,
but relatively little code is actually required to be in ROM--
GSOS will load most of it to RAM as needed.

> On 5锟斤拷29锟斤拷, 锟斤拷锟斤拷1时48锟斤拷, "sfahey" <sfa...@a2central.com.remove-8rf-this>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>V-Tech produced a prototype portable GS and never released it. I think they
>>were finally afraid Apple would sue them successfully ... And they realized
>>the Apple II market was shrinking at an accelerated rate by then.

-michael

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