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From: rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: What I would like to see
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Date: 17 Jan 90 18:39:15 GMT
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In article <13273@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
>
>Here's some stuff I would like to see from Apple, some reasonable, some not so
>reasonable. Most of all I'd like to see Apple actively defending its home and
>educational market share instead of stalling until the Low Cost Color Mac is
>_finally_ ready. I bet they could get a redesigned low cost gs out the door
>within the year if they only had the go-ahead from upstairs.
>
>3. Better, a programmable video board along the lines of the VOC that can drive
>	almost any monitor (NTSC to Mac II) and would support MORE COLORS!
>	GenLock with a frame grabber would also be nice. (I know, third party.)
The VOC already has GenLock - but the frame grabber would be much apreciated.

>	f. Stereo decoder built in. Use CA3 from the DOC. Give the DOC more
>		ram, or at least make refilling the sound buffers trivial
>		(DMA?) for long sound files (i.e. not instruments).
The Ensoniq DOC can access 2 banks of 64K - unfortunately, it doesn't
seem to be able to allow a sample to cross bank boundries - it's very
difficult to test: the GS's DOC only has 64K; the Ensonic Mirage is
difficult to work with without an in-circuit-emulator for the 6809 CPU;
therefore, I'm not sure whether my experiments are properly designed.

>
>Todd Whitesel
>toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu

- Ron Wilson
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