Re: Second Sight just arrived

[mcafee@umich.edu (Sean McAfee)]

In article <3vgp9a$gu7@news-2.csn.net>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com> wrote:
>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.

Bummer.  Well, then, how about a new font, unique to the Second Sight?

>: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.

How does the SS determine what border color to use?  When I use GNO, the
border color is white (like the text), but when I run Proterm, the border is
black (as per the Control Panel, I believe).  Those are really the only two
programs I've been running lately, so I don't have enough examples to spot a
pattern.

>: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. 

I don't have a RamFAST.

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