Re: AST Visionplus

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

Robert Thomas wrote:

> 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

and the last acceptable. I've only used the middle one so I can't provide more

details. All of them would have been much slower than the ramfast anyways.

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

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.

> 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.

    Wayne