Re: Second Sight Features

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <bazyarD8Gx3n.5q9@netcom.com>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@netcom.com> wrote:
>>Is there a way to operate the Apple VOC with Second Sight?

>Yes. You could feed the video output of Second Sight into a VOC,
>for TrueColor overlays and that sort of thing.

   We discussed this on IRC last night, this isn't quite true. Jawaid
thought that the VOC got its input from the GS's RGB out port, and
thus you could connect a SS's RGB out port to the VOC. Not true; the
VOC grabs its video off the GS bus, and then pipes everything out.

   With a bit of extra hardware this might be possible: connect the
SS to one of those VGA -> TV converters, and then send the TV signal
from that into the VOC as your background input. You'd lose a chunk
of the signal by going to RF (NTSC is pretty cruddy when it comes to
accurate color rendition), but that could work.

Nathan Mates
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