Re: Question....

["Tim in Town" <timf@rmi.net>]

Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote in article
<20AUG199713290215@vax2.concordia.ca>...
> In article smentzer@pacbell.net (Steve Mentzer) writes...
>
> >Or does an adapter exist that allows a IIgs to utilize a cheap
> >14" VGA monitor?
> 
>     Yep, the Second Sight card from Sequential Systems works as
> an adapter, you can easily connect up 14", 15", 17" and even 20"
> SVGA monitor displays. It shadows text and graphic modes, but
> is far from being perfect (actually it just falls short of being
> passable, to the point you would want to keep your old Apple
> RGB still connected).
> 
>     It sells for US$149.95 for the 24-bit/1 MB version. Yes, it
> is an SVGA video card for the Apple IIgs, but relatively nothing
> out there supports it (just a handful of graphic viewers). I call
> it a glorified SVGA monitor interface, and it is not really much
> more than that. It could work in an Apple IIe if the firmware was
> completed and supported all its graphic modes, but it doesn't.
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca
> 

So, I won't get the same image quality (from a JPEG, for example) on a
Second Sight enhanced GS as I would on a standard PC?  Is this right?  If
so, what's the point of having a Second Sight card?


-- 
in Town,
Tim