Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

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

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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 ?!
> >
>
> 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.

Michael will give you a technical answer, but I will give you a simple one:
the display sucks.  You typically cannot read 80 column text, and get all
kinds of jittering in different display modes.

Cheers
Tim