Re: Apple II VGA Video Generator Card Project

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

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Jorge Chamorro Bieling wrote:
>
> > I was already thinking about modifying my videx to do that, and I may
> > try to do it someday...
> > ...but reading what you the people at csa2 are saying this week, I've
> > seen that having a modified videx maybe a nice thing but is not *the
> > solution*.
> >
> > So here is what I've been thinking about it this week.
> > May it be the way to go ?
> >
> > "Apple II VGA Video Generator Card Project"
> > <http://homepage.mac.com/jorgechamorro/a2things/index.html>
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
>
> Looks like a very practical approach.

One issue is that graphics routines will be pretty slow.
"Big pixels" use processor cycles and memory bandwidth.
Accelerating the processor helps that, but the peripheral
bus is still 1MB/sec max.

-michael

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