Re: Video and IIgs?

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

In article gt5460c@acmez.gatech.edu (Martin Tuck) writes...

>Anonymous (nobody@REPLAY.COM) wrote:
>
>>With the Visionary GS or AST Vision Enhanced card, 30 frames per second
>>at 16 colors out of 4096 or 16 shades of gray.  Both modes give a screen
>>resolution of 320x200.

    The thing you forgot to mention, there was never any software written
to allow you to capture live video (not just still images) and save it in
a movie format, similar to AVI or QuickTime. Work was started on programs
such as Mini-Movie and DreamVision, but they were never completed. If you
want to create a moving video image, you have to capture frame by frame
(that means advance the tape one frame and capture, another frame and
capture and so on. Ick!).

>       Are these still available (Visionary or AST) somewhere?  Alltech
>doesn't list them.
>
>       Alltech has the Vision Plus for sale.  Anybody know anything about
>that?

    They are all the same card, more or less. It began life (albeit
a short one) as the AST Vision Plus, then was resurrected a few years
later as the Visionary GS (from a company called Virtual Realities).
In this new form, V.R. managed to clear up several bugs in hardware
and software, making the card more stable and usable. Finally it was
bought by Alltech, who then sold and manufactured it under the name
Vision Plus Enhanced (and I assume continues to do to this day).

    I've no idea what changes, if any, took place when Alltech took
over manufacturing of the card.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca