Allison 2.0 preannouncement

[seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah)]

Last Friday, Scott Gentry revealed that he was close to signing a contract
to begin work on Allison 2.0, the digitizer software for the Enhanced AST
Vision Plus now offered by Alltech.  It used to be called the Visionary
board, nee AST Vision Plus.

There's a new firmware release that enables "Allison Movies" in the upcoming
software.  You'll be able to capture in grayscale, 80x50 frames from video
at 30 frames per second.  Frame editing and splicing, as well as transitions,
are among the planned features in Allison 2.0.  A 16-palette color mode was
also mentioned at the AGS conference.

Upgrades will be handled by Alltech Electronics.  The projected price of the
new digitizer/Allison combo is around $200.  Look for it sometime in the
Spring or Summer 1993.

-- 
Dave Seah (seah@ee.rochester.edu, AFCDaveS@aol.com)