Re: recent thread: VGA/Ethernet

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 13:29:42 +0200, Robert Flossmann <rfka01@gmx.de>
wrote:

>I've been following the current thread on providing accelerator/main 
>memory/ethernet/VGA graphics at reasonable hobbyist prices for the IIGS 
>and remembered something I had found when searching for Atari stuff:
>
>http://home.arcor.de/thomas.redelberger/prj/atari/etherne/index.htm
>
>Is anything like this possible/feasible on the IIGS to allow the use of 
>a 8 bit ISA VGA card resp. Ethernet card?

It is possible.  I heard that Derek Taubert, who was writing GS/TCP
for GNO/ME on the IIgs, built himself an adapter to hook up an ISA
ethernet card but neither of these projects were ever released.

Even if an adapter were created, there would be a lot of programming
that would need to be done to get whatever was plugged into the ISA
slot working with the Apple IIs.

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