Re: Rarest Card

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 22 oct, 19:08, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Toinet wrote:
> > On 22 oct, 10:33, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>On Oct 21, 1:25 pm, Joe <j...@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >>>I'll trade you all my TurboRez materials for an airplane ride over the SF
> >>>Bay Area.
>
> >>>Joe Kohn
>
> >>We can do that :) It's a friggen blast.. there's a nice procedure we
> >>call a "Bay Tour" ..
>
> >>...you can have a sneak peak .. though it's from 2003, here's an idea.
>
> >>http://17500mph.com/photos?g2_itemId=664
>
> > Gentlemen,
>
> > Please consider sharing your knowledge/documentation/disks and tools
> > on the TurboRez which, at Brutal Deluxe, interested us a lot a
> > looooonng time ago.
>
> I sort of expected it to come out in the course of conversation,
> but now I have to ask:  What is the TurboRez?
>
> -michael
>
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Once upon a time, in a country far far away from France, there was a
company, let's call it RezTek, owned by William St Pierre, aka Bill St
Pierre, that designed a video board for the Apple IIgs (IIRC only for
the IIgs)

It was a dark age when none existed, not even the Second Sight from
Sequential Systems. The future was uncertain with a limit of
320*200*16 pixels on a IIgs monitor and then came Bill with his
TurboRez.

A fantastic weapon for games: hardware scrollings and blitters, many
video pages. A deep and colorful palette (up to 262 000 colors at a
time IIRC).

The card has been demoed in a far far far town in Kansas but a few
months after, the project has been cancelled because of the coming of
the Second Sight which offered compatibility with Apple II video
modes, an option not sustained by RezTek.