DSEAH@WPI.BITNET (03/14/88)
Since everybody else is doing it... I'd like to see a 6 to 8 MHz 65816 running under the hood of my GS. I'd like to have cleaner sound output (presently there seems to be a lot of weird noises, pops and whines coming from somewhere). I'd like to see at least 32 colors on screen in 320x200 mode. Interlacing would be nice. I think the flicker can be reduced if there are similar colors on adjacent scan lines, so black and white text screens would look much nicer...I would like to see relocatable graphic memory OR a blitter. As for difficulty in implementing new GS graphics modes, everything is already so jumbled up that sneaking a few more modes into the machine would probably not be too big a pain for the programmer. One mode I would like to see is a plain monochrome mode, for example 640x200 black and white in 16K. I wish they would move the display memory out of slow RAM. Another interesting feature might be linearized double hires or "classic" hires buffers. I might as well say "I wish the Apple was more like the Amiga", but it's that question of "loyalty" again. Not to mention bucks. Dave Seah - Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Bitnet: DSeah@WPI.Bitnet | Apples Rock! // | Internet: DSeah%WPI.Bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU | // AppleBB WPI
laba-4an@web8b.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (03/21/88)
Everybody keeps judging the //gs by the Amiga. Look at it this way:
Take a generic, enhanced //e ($$)
Add a sound board (Mockingboard)
a 65816
an accelerator board
256K RAM
an RGB card
a mouse
a Super Serial Card
an 80-column card
a clock card
a keyboard buffer
a card that performs interrupts
all of the built-in //gs toolkit software (incl RAM disk)
What would you pay for all of this?
There are those who say that the //e should have had these all along.
Now it does.
I use the //gs-specific stuff about 1% of the time; usually I use AppleWorks,
ProTERM, or Merlin (ProDOS 8). Why not accept the //gs as a very
enhanced //e? If you really want an Apple Amiga, screw old Apple // program
support and make an Apple Amiga.
If course, if Apple WAS able to create a //gs with super speed, incredible
graphics, AND be able to run AppleVision, things would be much different...
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