Re: Second Sight just arrived

[bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

Sean McAfee (mcafee@umich.edu) wrote:

: In the short time I've been using the card (about twenty minutes), I have only
: one complaint.  I really, really don't care for the IBM-style character set.
: Is there any possibility of a ROM upgrade with the traditional Apple-style
: characters?  

  The problem with that is that the character cells in "traditional"
Apple II video are 7 dots across; whereas they're _9_ dots across
on the Second Sight.  So, the font must be different; there's really
no choice.

: I could learn to live with it, I suppose, but it's kind of like
: having your sweetie get a facelift and looking like that homely girl you dated
: for a while and then dumped.  Same person underneath, but...Ugh.

  Um, interesting analogy. :)

: One other thing I just noticed:  Changes to the display's Border Color have no
: effect on the screen's border, which remains black.  What's up with that?

  We cannot track the border color register because it's shared with 
the battery RAM access register; when we track it, the battery ram
becomes corrupted.

: One final note:  The first time I booted the computer after installing the
: card, I heard a beep when the "boot-up thermometer" was about a quarter of the
: way across.  The thermometer continued to fill, but nothing further happened
: when it reached the right edge.  Everything happened as normal when I
: rebooted.  

  Sounds like your RamFAST was confused. 

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