sfahey wrote:
To: omashiroi Re: Why not just reproduce the second sight card? By: omashiroi to comp.sys.apple2 on Thu Mar 19 2009 12:37 pm > There always seem to be discussions about how the second sight was not > perfect, not a great model, etc. But really why not just reproduce it > as is. It displayed IIgs video on VGA successfully. That is all anyone > is really looking for any more and it probably works good enough. Because availability of the Oak chipset it uses is a problem.
I was going to mention that, but I assumed he meant reimplementation in an FPGA or some such...though that would probably be harder than starting from scratch, given the approach the Second Sight used. -michael ******** Note new website URL ******** NadaNet and AppleCrate II for Apple II parallel computing! Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."