Re: A problem with Second Sight

[Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu>]

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 juntunen@hotmail.com wrote:

> I have a Second Sight card installed into my IIgs and the other day I went to
> try and use Inwords but it just locked the computer up.
> 
> The Quickie portion seems to work fine.
> 
> I did disable everything that didn't absolutely need to be their for the
> computer to boot or be there to check out the problems with quickie and
> inwords.
> 
> 
> When I try to use Inwords everything goes fine until I release the button on
> the scanner and then I get garbage on the screen.  If I push control-reset
> then I get the Inwords menu again (just like in appleworks), but of course I
> do lose any record of a scan.
> 

I've never used InWords but if it uses the double hi-res video mode
at all then this is your problem. The SecondSight's emulation of the
DHR video mode is broken. If this isn't what is going on then I can't
think of anything else that could be causing the problem.

Paul.
pschultz@med.wayne.edu
Paul Schultz