Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

[alex@frankendata.de (TheByteBooster)]

alex@frankendata.de (TheByteBooster) wrote in message news:<8d1d558c.0409150539.6be8fe2a@posting.google.com>...
> "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
> > roGdnXJhMab5v9rcRVn-jA@comcast.com">news:roGdnXJhMab5v9rcRVn-jA@comcast.com...
> > >
>  ...
> > >
> > > 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 ?!
> 

If the only purpose is to convert the IIGS output to hook up a
standard VGA device why not use: http://www.svideo.com/video2vga.html
?
it is listed at $74.95

Ale.


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