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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: investing in a II gs
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Date: 19 Sep 90 00:12:55 GMT
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$CSD211@LSUVM.BITNET (Mark Orr) writes:

>Rumors in the July '90 Nibble seem to indicate that the GS's graphics
>may be augmented with a 400 mode in the future. I certainly hope that
>they have the forsight to make that mode NON-INTERLACED. It would be like
>watching a train wreck in slow motion for Apple to put a useless video
>mode on the GS.

You can get an interlaced 400 mode for the GS _TODAY_. It's called the Video
Overlay Card and it has to be interlaced because TV is interlaced. The O/S
doesn't officially support it but I'm working on ways to get around that.

Interlaced modes are not useless -- you can use them with NTSC monitors and for
digitized pictures the flicker is not a real problem. (I have a demo disk for
the VOC to back this up.)

Putting in a non-interlaced 400 mode would require Apple to do something they
should have done in the first place: put a _designed_ video system in the GS
and not a _kludged_ one. I'm all for it.

But I don't think the interlaced modes should be left out. Notice how the mac
market is scrambling to make NTSC interfaces.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu