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From: rjv21207@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Build in the VOC
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Date: 24 Sep 90 14:36:00 GMT
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shrinkit@pro-novapple.cts.com writes...
>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.

Cost...always the bottom line. It IS a pretty interesting idea though.  If the
ewnough people use a GS for mutli-media then I could see it going over very
well. It's not that people don't use them for that purpose, but it seems to
me that most people out there use an Amiga for that sort of thing.  I know a 
few people who work with a local cable group (they do local sports, etc.) and 
they wanted to do subtitles and credits on their work, so they wen tout and
LOOKED at Apple equipment, but ultimately bought an Amiga set-up because of
the programs it had already geared for video editing. (Personally, I'd have
loved to see Baudville develop Take-1 GS... Take-1 for the //e is an 
absolutely awesome program...anyone remember that?


>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.

I'm with the rest of the group... the GS IS a good machine... it's potential
just hasn't been tapped by the masses yet.

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

Now there's something I would buy despite cost!

>andy

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