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From: shrinkit@pro-novapple.cts.com (Andy Nicholas)
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Subject: Build in the VOC
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Date: 24 Sep 90 06:09:33 GMT
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I'm going to take a small poll here -- one of the things that I think would be
cool to see in a new IIGS (this is very presumptuous, to be sure) would be a
built-in Video Overlay Card.  Think about it -- something like that would give
the IIGS a multimedia lead over almost every other platform out there.  Plus,
existing owners wouldn't get stuck with something obsolete because they could
just run out and buy a VOC if they didn't want to get a whole new CPU.  Long
ago when the VOC came out, I vaguely recall someone telling me that a lot of
the video circuitry on the VOC was duplicated on the GS motherboard... if this
is true, then it really might not be an enormous expense to include it.

At the very least, you could have the kid who buys a new box watch TV while
playing rastan -- at the very best, you could whip something up for
HyperStudio or any of the other Hyper-Multimedia-stuff.

Anyone love this idea?  Anyone hate it?  Anyone think I'm loony?

Part of the rationale behind this is that if apple can't give us the 100 Mhz
GS the next time around, maybe they could make up for parts of its
shortcomings by building in the VOC.

Hmmm... gee, then you really -could- go a Dragon's Lair/GS or other Laserdisk
type game.

andy


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