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From: francis@magrathea.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apple IIe card?
Message-ID: <1990Oct29.002435.6503@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 00:24:35 GMT
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In article <1990Oct20.160702.11341@athena.mit.edu> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
>It will not.  On a aide note, I heard that when the IIe card is being
>used, the 030 on the LC is running code to translate the video signal
>onto the onboard video circuitry (since Apple II video is so different
>from Mac video).  Thus it will never be possible to run Apple II stuff
>under MultiFinder in a window (*that* would've been cool).  Can anyone

Anybody know of anyone considering an emulator? It'd be mighty tricky,
'cause there's so much Apple II software that uses direct memory writes,
but it might be possible.  With an 030 it might actually run at a good
speed! (Doesn't have to be a thunderbolt to match the actual machine! :-)
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