Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca>]

"TheByteBooster" <alex@frankendata.de> 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.

You are probably right.  If it is simple for you to implement, well, I'm the
first in line to buy one when you are done!  Maybe it would be a good
'starter' project for you.  Master converting A2 graphics, and then do a
more advanced card like the one you were initially thinking of?  You could
make a ByteBlaster card, and later do a ByteBlaster Pro or something.  :-)

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

No, it's not.  And they got for over $300US on eBay when they do (very
rarely) show up.

Cheers
Tim