Re: Second Sight SVGA Board Info (text onl

[philip@labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Yoshi writes:

>I didn't say it COULDN'T support anything above {xxx}x200,
>Nathan. I said w/ a stock GS monitor, it could only support
>{xxx}x200 non-interlaced. This is truly lame, and will always
>be.

  Ummm, Yoshi...you _do_ understand, don't you, that this is a
limitation of the GS monitor, and not a limitation of the Second
Sight board?!

>i've *NEVER* used 640-mode in my programming, and I never WILL.
>It's just plain silly, IMHO.

  Well, each to their own preference; I happen to like 640-mode
better than 320-mode, because it doesn't look as blocky. I also
find the aspect ratio to be easy to deal with, because it is more
or less 2:1.  Plus I personally think text looks better in
640-mode.  But that's just me :-)

>Overpriced. I compare a lot of things to the PC market, be-
>cause it's "the head of the flock."

  You shouldn't, for the simple reason that the PC market is HUGE,
and the GS market is SMALL.  Hence any company producing add-on
hardware for the GS must charge more in order to make a profit.
It's simple economics.
 
>Why would I want 132x60?

  You mean to say that as a programmer you wouldn't mind having a
bigger text screen to do your editing in?  Tsk, tsk, Yoshi :-)




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