Re: Compact Flash card project for Apple II / IIGS

[Charles <spammeister12345@aol.com>]

In article <chptsk$9r3$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>, 
timhaynes@no.spam.please.alumni.uwaterloo.ca says...
> 
> "Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:FYZ%c.205854$pTn.98645@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...
> > > The thing is I have made that graphic card around the HD63484 ACRT
> > > controller. At theat tome (1994) quite a nice graphic processort.
> > > Unfortunatly it is no longer available. S
> >
> > http://www.innovasic.com/pdfs/IA63484prelim.pdf
> >
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> 
> Good find there, Glenn!
> 
> Alex, I can't encourage you enough to finish your project from 1994.  The
> one huge gaping hole in the Apple II enthusiast/expanion/hobbyist world is a
> decent (hopefully affordable) video card that can open us up to VGA output
> (Michael: thanks for the details about the rasterization limits.  I would
> happily accept them myself, and have seen what it looks like on the NEC
> Multisync that can hook up to a stock IIgs).
> 
> Just think of the service you would be doing to the Apple II world!  Free us
> from the shackles of the (dwindling supply of) Apple RGB Monitors.  Give us
> access to VGA LCD displays, VGA projectors, 9" full colour monitors, VGA
> HUDs, etc....
> 
> Your name would go down in Apple II history as the man who really made
> "Apple ][ Forever!" a real possibility.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> 
I second the impassioned plea from Tim.  I hope one day to sit side by 
side with Tim looking into my own Apple II displaying on a vga monitor 
and screaming at the top of my lungs:



FREE AT LAST!! FREE AT LAST!! THANK GOD ALMIGHTY (AND ALEX!), WE'RE FREE 
AT LAST!!!!

Go Alex!