Re: Mac monitor on a IIgs?-- Second Sight board saga

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>Jeff Blakeney writes ...
>> 
>>Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>> >     According to posts here, the Second Sight board can not display
standard
>> >hires or double-hires; so, SS + a VGA monitor does not seem to be a
>> >particularly good replacement for a regular IIgs monitor.
>> 
>> As far as I know, the only Apple II display mode that the SecondSight
>> doesn't support is the double-hires mode.
>
>     That may be; perhaps, double lores, too. Part of the mystery comes from
the
>rather vague specifications supplied on Sequential's site. Evidently, the
board
>can do _a_ double-hires mode; but, it does not support standard Apple II
>double-hires (as would be necessary for using DHR utilities and to play games
>like King's Quest, Might & Magic II, Arrow Heart, etc.).
>
>     Perhaps an SS board owner will clarify what the board can and can not do.

Double-hires is the only mode that the SS card can't do using the older
ROM revision.  Jawaid Bayzar said that the newest ROMs CAN do
double-hires, but it seems Sequential does not have a good track record
of returning cards sent in for upgrade or repair.  Thus, I've not risked
losing my card by sending it in.

I wish Sequential would just release the ROM code so that users could
re-program the EPROM themselves!