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I've been following this thread with interest for a while. I have a
small collection of old Apple2 boards, but they're all ][+ so I'm not
building a "crate" any time soon. :-(
Anyway ... I had a thought regarding the "monitor" display. It should
be pretty easy to take the video output from the Apple// and transmit it
on the Internet as "streaming video". It might require the use of a
non-Apple][ system, but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. On
my local network which (unlike the Internet) has predictable latency I
see frame rates of 20fps on a 200K bps connection.
I've taken Apple][ video and fed it into Video-In on a PC video adapter
and it shows up O.K. (especially 40 col text) in a window on the PC so
I'm pretty sure that the resolution would be O.K. over the Internet.
You could probably embed the video stream in a browser page if you
wanted to have an integrated "look and feel".
You'd probably want to have the "Video server" on a Linux box of some
sort so you wouldn't have to deal with Windows security/performance and
to keep the software/hardware costs low.
Interesting project idea -- back to your regularly scheduled thread ... :-)
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be seeing you ... Don