Apple II Lisa video card
All — Today I watched a video interview by the CHM of Bill Atkinson where he talks about how he prototyped the various Lisa screen elements before moving them to the Lisa dev setup. It seems he used an Apple II with a special video card to create these. I’ve done a bit of googling on this but I can’t come up with any good search results. Does anyone know what was involved in that? What was the card like? Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
Thanks Wil. I visited that page, and I also checked the book I have (Revolution in the Valley by Andy Hertzfeld) that the site is based on, but it really seems that the site icontent isn’t much different than the book. What I never recall having seen anywhere was a picture of the video board or hardware Bill used in developing those GUI elements. Most of it was written in Pascal with the lower-level stuff in assembly. Rich -- Rich Cini http://cini.classiccmp.org On 1/31/25, 12:43 AM, "Wil Birkmaier" <wil@birkmaier.org> wrote: Is this what you are looking for? https://folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html On Jan 30, 2025 22:02, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: All — Today I watched a video interview by the CHM of Bill Atkinson where he talks about how he prototyped the various Lisa screen elements before moving them to the Lisa dev setup. It seems he used an Apple II with a special video card to create these. I’ve done a bit of googling on this but I can’t come up with any good search results. Does anyone know what was involved in that? What was the card like? Rich http://cini.classiccmp.org/ Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
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