Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

[alex@frankendata.de (TheByteBooster)]

"Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message news:<ci7e0s$299$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>...
> "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>  ...
> >
> > I think what people want mostly is a card to take the
> > Apple II modes and display them on a VGA monitor. Yes,
> > a full-featured VGA card would be nice, but what say we
> > get a converter card just to display the Apple screens
> > onto the VGA monitor for now. Add a connector so you
> > can create a daughtercard later and install the VGA modes
> > to it at a later time.  :o)
> 
> I agree.  I think most people would want a SecondSight kind of a card.
> Except with DHR support and not being such a power hog.
> 

Well this is a completly different beast. Such a converter would have
no "inteligence" and be rather "simple" to implement. Such a thing in
fact would have not much in common what I think of a graphic card but
rather be an interface/converter at best.

Actually I think the SecondSight is all any Apple II users would
need... Is it no longer manufactured ?!

http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Feb/A2.NET.GOODIES.2.99/SecondSight.A2.card.jpg
> 
> http://apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Sep/A2.Best.of.Usenet/Second.Sight.Info.txt
> Cheers
> Tim