Re: SS/TR sofware support (was Doom Conversion)

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Mitchell Spector (spector@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

: 	Personally, the first programs I'd like to see support the
: Second Sight are:

: Platinum Paint  (16.7m color palette wheel, 256 standard palette, higher
:                  resolution support, additional tools and functions found
:                  in most Macintosh software. Not looking for Photoshop in
:                  the next PP revision, but slowing adding advanced features
:                  is acceptable).

This might not be possible... wait, Quality is behind this, so maybe it can
be done. Personally I think there might be some cool programmers out there
willing to write those freeware/shareware painting programs like those we
have.

: AppleWorks GS   (word-processor module with true WYSIWYG and page-preview.
:                  WestCode's Pointless should be updated to work with it).

Highly doubt so. Thought that nobody can figure out the source code.
BUT! Updating AppleWorks 5.0 will be another story, it will attracts those
dieheart //e users (whose majority are using AppleWorks) to buy SecondSight!

: ProTERM (8-bit) (Very simply, a modular driver to use IBM text modes for
:                  color ANSI and VT-100. Perhaps even add an option to use
:                  standard Apple II mousetext or IBM 80x25 ANSI text. InTrec
:                  should be able to address this quickly, nothing very complex
:                  about this really).

YES! This is another one that will attract both //e and IIGS users. ProTerm,
if updated, will be hard to beat. ANSITerm will face a great competition in
this field.

I do know Jawaid plans to support SS in his coming TelCom II comm software,
however, maybe that would threaten Spectrum as the #1 desktop comm software!

: The Finder      (This would require QuickDraw II to be patched, but perhaps
:                  a temporary patch to only the Finder could be done? Or at
:                  least a keep the same 640x200 resolution but with 256 color
:                  support. Of course I'd like to see 640x480x256 :)

A patch, cool. How about some finder extensions? Like a new FinderView?
A text viewer? (A text editor might required the update of TextEdit)

: GNO/ME          (A quick patch to use 80x25, etc text modes, then of course
:                  support for graphics).

80x25 OR More. But 80x25 has to be supported since not all SS users have VGA
monitor.

: This is what I'd want to see within the few months after it's release. Just
: something to get started with. Of course if someone wants to write some
: games, by all means do so! :-) A re-release of Brutal Deluxe's "Cogito"
: could be done almost immediately I'm sure. I'd also be interested in seeing
: BurgerBill having a go at the card!

Yes, get BurgerBill to program Doom. Let us all buy Wolf3d and prove that there
is still a game market for GS. 

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          Lim Thye Chean: Lim is my surname. My name is Thye Chean.
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Institute of Systems Science                    Apple IIGS and OS/2 Warp user
   Software Engineer, Author of Galaxia Authoring Environment (OSF/Motif)