Re: SecondSight & TrueColor

[tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz)]

Jawaid Bazyar (bazyar@netcom.com) wrote:

>   What was the "SuperSprite 16" board?

A big blue board that resembles the original TurboRez on terms of size vs.
space inside the case. I don't remember the specs right off, but it added 
improved resolution, 16 colors and animation capability without have to use
CPU time.

I don't remember if the SuperSprite is the one that also had the something
by 400 verticle resolution capability. Using that and a Monitor /// with a 
patched AppleWriter you could display almost a full page of text on the 
screen. Allthough a good set of glasses may have been required for some :)

I have another board here from a company called Third Millenium. It's got
some 3D'sh graphic ability. Not too many of them were made. 

I have the manuals for these cards someplace, along with the accompaning
disks. I just don't know where right off.... The prices on them was around
$395 for the SuperSprite and $449 for the Third Millenium card. 

There was also another company that practicaly cloned the SuperSprite card. 
They suffered the same fate. 

Amdek/Video 7 made a touch screen card. I have a few of them here as well.
but I don't have the monitor that works with it. The instore-dealer 
'information station' on the early '80s was a Laserdisc player hooked to a
//e, Amdek Color II w/touch screen and a stereo amp. You just touched 
whatever topic you wanted info about. I have all the laserdiscs from the 
setup, a few of the floppys for the discs and the monitor card. It written
in Apple Pascal 1.3 and uses a Pioneer 7820 (huge, old, heavy, toploading) 
player. I've got everything else needed to make it run again, one of these
days that would be fun to get it to run. .. but I need the monitor :)

It had info on the Apple //e, ///, Lisa, and Mac 128. Shows alot of clips
on Apple /// hardware that never really made it. Like the FileWare drive and
AppleMouse ///, (ever notice the //e mouse card has that large land area
towards the front of the computer? It fits perfectly in an Apple ///. Snaps
into the slot and sits in the holding 'groove' perfectly. ) I would think
having just that driver would make it work for the /// as well. 

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