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From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II Video Overlay Card
Keywords: Piracy
Message-ID: <1989Nov19.061014.10847@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 89 06:10:14 GMT
References: <879@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <9075@microsoft.UUCP> <36617@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network, Norman, OK
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In article <36617@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>Matt Deatherage writes:
>Yes.  The card, as you guess, does have its own VGC chip and can deliver
>Super Hi-Res graphics to a IIe.  I've seen it done.  It can also deliver
>640 X 400 graphics on a IIgs (using bank $E0 as well as $E1, kind of like
>double hi-res).  However, since the $E0 memory has the main handle table
>in the middle of it (which can't move), this is not too useful at present.
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  Could you go into more detail about the 640 X 400 capabilities of the VOC?
  That is very interesting.

       Collin Douglas

       cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu