Re: Second Sight Card

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <I2jH.85$tr1.206901@ptah.visi.com>,
Charles A. Plater <ab3189@wayne.edu> wrote:
>I'm looking into getting a Second Sight card for my GS, so that I can
>(hopefully) use the Apple MultiScan 15 monitor that I have at home.   I have
>a few questions:
>1) Will the card work with the Apple Multiscan 15?

   The card puts out standard IBM SVGA. You might need to purchase one
of the small hardware dongles to get the signals rearranged to fit
what the Multiscan wants, if that monitor's too old to accept SVGA
directly.

>2) How do the finder and other non-secondSight aware applications look when
>displayed via the Second Sight?  Are things stretched out so that they don't
>look right?

   I think the aspect ration remains the same, but unsure on that.

>3) I remember hearing that the text displayed the the SecondSight card (ie.
>when in P8) is not the same as the regular Apple // text? Is this true?  What
>kind of font is used?

   It's a standard (but slow) VGA chipset, so the font is the same as
you'd see on a PC in text mode. Bolder than the default Apple II font,
which makes it more readable to some. 

Nathan Mates

--
<*> Nathan Mates http://www.visi.com/~nathan/      <*>
# What are the facts? Again and again and again-- what are the _facts_?
# Shun wishful thinking, avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors
# think-- what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? -R.A. Heinlein