Re: Second Sight Card

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article mattack@area.com (Matt Ackeret) writes...

>In article <19980304064101.BAA26744@ladder03.news.aol.com>,
>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>>So much for the bad side of the Second Sight, let's talk about some
>>of the great features.  If you are a heavy user of AppleWorks Classic
>>or ProTerm, you will absolutely love this card.  It replaces the thin
> 
>Unfortunately there's no way ProTERM will support higher text resolutions.

    Yep, the only improvement you'll get is the text font will be the
same one you'd see in ProComm Plus (bigger, boldered, clearer). Hmmm,
and somehow I doubt ANSI and VT-100 emulation (blinking, bold, colored
or underlined text) will magically be supported.

>*This* would be enough of a reason for me to get the card (and pay for
>an upgrade to ProTERM to support higher resolutions)..  So I could still
>have the greatness of ProTERM, with more than 24 characters vertically.
> 
>(and I know to get more than 24 I'd need a new monitor too, but monitors that
>would fit are now "junk" to most people.)
> 
>It would apparently require a big rewrite of ProTERM as ProTERM uses
>lines above 24 to mean special things (like status line and such)..
>If anyone else'd pay for an upgrade for this purpose though, tell the Intrec
>guys.

    When the Second Sight board was a few months away from introduction,
I wrote to the programmers at InTrec about an upgrade (back in late 94).
Besides wanting more technical information on the card, they mentioned
how an update would not be as trivial as I thought, but they would look 
into the issue at a later time (during that time they were too busy with 
non-Apple II related projects). 

    Somehow, 3-4 years later--with the Apple II market virtually non
existent and the relatively few number of people out there who own
Second Sight boards--I doubt an update will happen. Already it's 
been 5 years since there was a new release of ProTERM in general.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca