Re: Let's pay a developer to make a VGA output card

[Mark McDougall <markm@vl.com.au>]

mdj wrote:

> I think you can, the colour burst on the Apple II is an artifact of
> the raster signal, essentially, and easily recreated.

Not sure what you mean here.

> I thought that was the plan? I agree sampling it from the composite 
> output isn't a very clever way to go, but then constructing a
> bandpass filter then sampling it with a DAC isn't really *that*
> complex, but since the solution is going to be tied to Apple II's
> anyway there little reason to make it harder than it actually is...

One could produce a perfect, crisp VGA signal then buy a really cheap 
and crappy KVM switch and pass it through that - it might look a bit 
more 'realistic'! ;)

Regards,

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