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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pirating Hardware
Message-ID: <15071@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Feb 91 20:42:56 GMT
References: <447@generic.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <447@generic.UUCP> ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy) writes:
>If you want to do something useful, how about a 640x480 resolution video card?
>Include patches for Quickdraw to use it and insure compatibility modes. Try
>being creative. Make something new and useful.

That's a constructive suggestion, but I would modify it to:  How about either
a "frame grabber" to work in conjunction with Apple's VOC (which is already a
640x480 video card), or a "frame buffer" that supports 640x480x8 (the 8-bit
deep pixel is the key point), again set up to work in conjunction with the
VOC (perhaps also without it).  The system software mods to support the VOC
in 640x480 mode would be wonderful, too.

Apple's VOC (Video Overlay Card) is a really nice piece of hardware, although
it's sort of a pity that there wasn't any way to add its capabilities into
a IIGS without duplicating essentially all the IIGS video circuitry on the
VOC card.  (Obviously that was necessary for use in a //e.)  I hope that as
information about the VOC spreads, there will be more software support for it.