Re: AST Visionplus

["Robert Thomas" <RThomas@WWLNK.net>]

Do I need any extra software to use the Visionplus? If so, will someone
point me in the right direction? (downloads, tech docs, manuals, etc.)

"Wayne Stewart" <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> Robert Thomas wrote:
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> > I recently bought a ROM-03 IIgs with two cards included. One was a CMS
SCSI
> > card which i've heard is inferior to the RamFAST. The other was an AST
> > Visionplus card. It looks like a composite video card, but I don't have
> > GS/OS to test it out. Mainly because I don't have a HDD.
>
> I'm told there were 3 different CMS cards, the first was junk, the second
poor
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> and the last acceptable. I've only used the middle one so I can't provide
more
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> details. All of them would have been much slower than the ramfast anyways.
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> The AST Visionplus was a fram grabber. Worked with about any NCST source
> though it works best with a strong signal and a short cable. Will do
colour or
>
> B&W but B&W looks a lot better. Had a lot of fun with the card. You need
GS/OS
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> to use it but you don't actually need a hard drive. If you have one 3.5"
> drives and
> 1mb or RAM you can run it. Two drives would be better though.
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> > I would be very apreciative of any info regarding these cards including
> > their stron & weak points.
> >
> > Also, I need to know where I can find the latest/best revision of the
> > RamFAST. My searches have been fruitless.
>
> A ramfasts are hard to find. The last one was the Rev D with the 3.01-F
> EPROM. The only difference between the 3.01-E and the 3.01-F is a
> bug fix for tape drives.
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>     Wayne
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