Rebuttal (was Re: Second Sight again...)

[bazyar@hypermall.com (Jawaid Bazyar)]

I was originally not going to respond to this post, but...

Alexander Siegfried (ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:
: Excerpts from the review of the Second Sight card in
: GS+:
: "...the text looks exactly like the standard set of
: characters that you see on an IBM PC!"
: (No comment.)
: "...the old Double Hi-Res video mode just doesn't work
: with the Second Sight card."
: (No comment.)
: "Another missing video mode (...) is Fill-Mode."
: (No comment.)
: "After (...) a while I began to notice that graphics
: seemed to draw a little slower."
: (No comment.)
: "If you have fast animation (...) you'll notice that the
: animation looks jerky..."
: (No comment.)
: "The Second Sight card is an AMAZING product."
: (Huh?)
: Clue / Ninjaforce

  Mr. "Siegfried" (if that is his real name), notes all the negative
points of the article without mentioning a single positive point 
(of which there are _many_) in the article.  Thus, he makes it appear 
that Steve Disbrow (reviewer) is off his rocker.  This is a childish
attack of Steve's integrity, which I have always found to be
of sterling character - Steve tells it like it is, in all the
reviews he does. I have never seen him pull punches for _any_
reason.

  If Ninjaforce isn't interested in Second Sight, well, that's their
loss.  A number of important Apple II programmers and companies
have pledged their support of Second Sight, and the success of
the product will be determined by these companies, not a bunch
of sour grapes that would probably be better off writing PC
software for an uncaring market.

  For those of you without GS+ subscriptions, and Steve Disbrow
willing, I'll collect all kudos _and_ gripes in the Second Sight
review.

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