Re: Second Sight

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 23:26:01 +0000, vector wrote:

> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
> 20030601040604.06721.00000330@mb-m11.aol.com">news:20030601040604.06721.00000330@mb-m11.aol.com...
>>
>> Consider owning a beloved Model T that you enjoy putting
>> around in on weekends.  Now consider installing a 900 HP
>> turbine engine.  Now how do you like "whooshing" around
>> at 300 mph in your neighborhood?  Charming?  ;-)
> 
> At 50 MHz (or better!), a IIgs
> might be able to do raytracing in a reasonable amount of time.  It could
> open up the ability to play MP3 files.  Why stop with Wolf 3D, when the
> source for DOOM is out there too?  Wouldn't you like to be able to watch
> Quicktime files on your IIgs?

One problem with all this is that these really are things
that a IIgs can't do. With the hypothetical card, it would
be the card doing these things. In fact, it would seem kind
of silly to write 65816 code to do this stuff when it's just
being emulated (although quickly). Seems like it would be
better to just let the Xscale handle this stuff natively.

I do think the project would be interesting, but I have to
agree with Michael's observation that the Apple II is more of
a peripherhal for the card than the other way around.

-Sheldon