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  • Re: new video card - vga for apple 2 ?

    From obsbedia2@obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, October 04, 2004 05:57:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    << There has been discussion off and on about creating a vga compatible
    video card for the II line. Don't flame me for asking a dumb question, >>

    The AnyCard ][ is still in development from KFest 2003. It's now two card working together, including one which works with VGA monitors.
    JaY

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  • From spammeister12345@spammeister12345@aol.com (Spammeister) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, October 04, 2004 09:26:18
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote in message news:<20041004015704.29543.00000141@mb-m05.aol.com>...
    << There has been discussion off and on about creating a vga compatible
    video card for the II line. Don't flame me for asking a dumb question, >>

    The AnyCard ][ is still in development from KFest 2003. It's now two card working together, including one which works with VGA monitors.
    JaY

    Jay, or anyone, can you lead the rest of us poor souls who are
    unfamiliar with the specs of the AnyCard II to a site or faq or
    something about this new card? What will it do? Whom will it serve?
    What is your favorite color ... ? :)

    Charles
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  • From Martin Doherty@martin.doherty@undisclosed.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, October 04, 2004 20:19:44
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Spammeister wrote:

    obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote in message news:<20041004015704.29543.00000141@mb-m05.aol.com>...

    << There has been discussion off and on about creating a vga compatible >>video card for the II line. Don't flame me for asking a dumb question, >>

    The AnyCard ][ is still in development from KFest 2003. It's now two card >>working together, including one which works with VGA monitors.
    JaY


    Jay, or anyone, can you lead the rest of us poor souls who are
    unfamiliar with the specs of the AnyCard II to a site or faq or
    something about this new card? What will it do? Whom will it serve?
    What is your favorite color ... ? :)

    Charles

    What is the flight speed of an unladen African swallow?
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  • From a2@a2@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) to comp.sys.apple2 on Monday, October 04, 2004 18:31:59
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Hi, y'all!

    spammeister12345@aol.com (Spammeister) wrote in message news:<c84b118e.0410040826.5f083986@posting.google.com>...
    Jay, or anyone, can you lead the rest of us poor souls who are
    unfamiliar with the specs of the AnyCard II to a site or faq or
    something about this new card? What will it do? Whom will it serve?
    What is your favorite color ... ? :)

    Until a respected member of the A2 community has one in his hands
    and can report that it works, the AnyCard II should be thought of as a
    fantasy.

    Willi
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  • From Mike Spurgeon@mike@spurgeon.net to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 02:33:24
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Willi Kusche wrote:

    Until a respected member of the A2 community has one in his hands
    and can report that it works, the AnyCard II should be thought of as a fantasy.


    http://www.a2central.com/index.php?topic=Hardware&page=2
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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 03:08:00
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Mike Spurgeon wrote:

    Willi Kusche wrote:

    Until a respected member of the A2 community has one in his hands
    and can report that it works, the AnyCard II should be thought of as a
    fantasy.


    http://www.a2central.com/index.php?topic=Hardware&page=2

    The apparently intended article says:

    ===

    Jeri Ellsworth's new AnyCard (as her USB card is now known) made great strides at KFest this year, but is still not available for purchase.

    A small team of programmers has assembled to help write firmware and GS/OS drivers for the card. The AnyCard, when completed, will provide a USB port,
    VGA graphics support, an IDE bus, and a CompactFlash slot, and will work
    in any slotted Apple II. There is no release date announced at this time.

    ===

    This description certainly leaves a lot to the imagination. ;-)

    Does anyone have a list of drivers being written or considered?

    Any info on _how_ VGA will be supported for Apple II graphics?

    And the fact that "There is no release date announced at this time."
    does not provide much refutation to Willi's original post...

    -michael

    Check out parallel computing for 8-bit Apples on my
    Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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  • From Wayne Stewart@waynes@telus.dotnet to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 03:31:36
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Michael J. Mahon wrote:

    The apparently intended article says:

    ===

    Jeri Ellsworth's new AnyCard (as her USB card is now known) made great strides
    at KFest this year, but is still not available for purchase.

    A small team of programmers has assembled to help write firmware and GS/OS drivers for the card. The AnyCard, when completed, will provide a USB port, VGA graphics support, an IDE bus, and a CompactFlash slot, and will work
    in any slotted Apple II. There is no release date announced at this time.

    ===

    This description certainly leaves a lot to the imagination. ;-)

    Does anyone have a list of drivers being written or considered?

    Any info on _how_ VGA will be supported for Apple II graphics?

    And the fact that "There is no release date announced at this time."
    does not provide much refutation to Willi's original post...

    That article is over a year old and I believe not entirely relavent. My understanding from subsequent postings was that they'd decided that an
    all in one card had too many hurdles to easily overcome and had broken
    it up into two separate cards.
    Hopefully it isn't vaporware as I'd really like to have a usb card. The
    other aspects would be nice but don't really matter to me.

    Wayne
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  • From heuser.marcus@heuser.marcus@freenet.de (Marcus Heuser) to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 01:04:04
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2

    Martin Doherty <martin.doherty@undisclosed.com> wrote in message news:<hZl8d.53$wk2.89@news.oracle.com>...

    What is the flight speed of an unladen African swallow?

    I don't know that. Auuuuuuuugh!
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  • From Sean Fahey@a2fan@hotmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:47:19
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2


    "Wayne Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote in message news:sAo8d.10443$MV5.1702@clgrps13...

    That article is over a year old and I believe not entirely relavent. My understanding from subsequent postings was that they'd decided that an
    all in one card had too many hurdles to easily overcome and had broken
    it up into two separate cards.
    Hopefully it isn't vaporware as I'd really like to have a usb card. The
    other aspects would be nice but don't really matter to me.

    I was there (at KFest) and listened to Hans speak about the "Anycard"
    project. Jeri wasn't working with him on it at the time - she had a
    rush-rush project to complete for a client.

    The first card that was shown during KFest 2003 just wasn't viable, so as
    Wayne said, Hans broke the functions down across two boards. During KFest
    2004, he said he had prototypes, and that he was close to showing something.

    Thats been awhile now, and no word since... I'm with Willi K. - until
    something shows up, I'm not getting too excited.


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