Re: SCSI devices for a IIgs

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"Supertimer" <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Not really.  If drivers and controllers for the task existed,
> it would not be a problem for the IIGS.  Packet writing
> (as in InCD or DirectCD) would be no problem for the
> IIGS.  It does not take nearly the uninterrupted transfer
> bandwidth of a traditional CD burn.  Even with normal
> CD burning, with buffer underun technology this is
> much less a problem.

That's what I think too.  It doesn't take much memory or CPU power to
operate in packet mode.  I think a programmed microcontroller and some
buffer memory could do the job.

> For MPEG compression and decompression, there
> are external boxes even for the PC that take over the
> function freeing the PC CPU.  Of course these won't
> work on the IIGS as is but IF the IIGS development
> resources of the 80's were still present, it may be
> possible to have an equivalent.

I'm not really interested in watching DVD movies from a IIgs, but it would
be nice to be able to burn a DVD with a Mac or a PC and then read it from
the IIgs.

- Mike