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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
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Subject: Video Card (Wait a minute!)
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Date: 27 Jun 91 22:19:15 GMT
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asong@pro-nbs.cts.com (Andi Song) writes:

>In-Reply-To: message from jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu


>        Are you serious!!??! Get real! :) So technically the IIgs IS
>upgradeable in video resolution like the IBM? 

   Now, the hardware is the easy part.  Getting the new hardware to 
work with QuickDraw and old applications is not so easy.

>        So we could buy this "card" and BAM!, 640x400 (or better)? I
>suppose we would have to buy a new monitor. Where would we get that? Would
>a Macintosh monitor work or what?

   You could, but you'd have to write custom programs that only worked 
with the board until Apple supported it.  And that's not likely to happen.

--
Jawaid Bazyar               |  "Twenty seven faces- with their eyes turned to
Graduated!/Comp Engineering |    the sky. I have got a camera, and an airtight
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          |     alibi.."
   Apple II Forever!        |  I need a job... Be privileged to pay me! :-)