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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //gs screen resolutions...
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Date: 21 Feb 90 07:56:26 GMT
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rlw@ttardis.UUCP (Ron Wilson) writes:

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>Given my experience, I would think that Apple's V.O.C. should cost no more
>than $300.

That's what I thought... until I got a look at the the thing.

There's a Mega // and an VGC on it.

You're paying for the whole //gs video system when you buy the VOC.

That's how they put super hires on a //e.

(Oh yeah.. the 400 line interlaced graphics are done by a cheap hack too.
The super hires buffer in banks $E1 and $E0 -- really shadowed copies on
the VOC -- are displayed alternately with even and odd frames of the video.)

I wish they would nuke the //gs chip set and start from scratch.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu