Re: Does second sight card require slot 3?

[jkeim@unlinfo.unl.edu (James D. Keim)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: mlpearce@!SPAMFREE@cris.com wrote:

: >Can the second sight card be placed in any slot other than 3? Has anyone
: >used this card in a GS that has a VOC (yes, I realize I can't pipe the
: >VOC's output through the second sight card).

: Not if you have a ROM 3 (it runs in slots 1-6 on a ROM 3).  Sequential
: says there IS a way to use the Second Sight with the VOC.  You have
: to get a VGA -> NTSC (PAL for non-N.A.) converter box to translate
: the Second Sight's output to the VOC's input...

I have both a VOC and the Second Sight.  The only way you can use the 
Second Sight with the VOC is having the SS shadow the standard GS 
output--not very useful.  The problem is that no Second Sight "aware" 
software that I've seen will recognize the SS if there is a VOC in the
system.  It just says it can't find the SS in any of the slots.  This 
is using a ROM 3 and putting the SS in both higher and lower slots 
than the VOC.

So, Sequential might say it will work but it won't with any current 
Second Sight software.  Now, maybe there is a better way to determine 
there is a SS in the system or maybe the program should ask (much like
some of the DOS 3.3 and ProDOS software) which slot the SS is in.  
Then, _maybe_ it would work.

--James K.