Re: Second Sight news??

[guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin)]

vax2.concordia.ca (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
: In article Krishna Sadasivam <kms@microsys6.engr.utk.edu> writes...

: >Is any software development being done that will take advantage of the
: >Second Sight card? It's been about two years since they came out, and 
: >I haven't heard any news on the card. (And I'm on the mailing list -- 
: >which is way too quiet...)

:     The only Second Sight software development I'm aware of, currently, 
: is Mike Hackett's QuickDraw II patch. 

:     As for my opinion of the Second Sight, I'm sorry to be blunt and
: negative, but I feel the card has been a major flop and is now facing
: the same fate as the (circa 1982) SuperSprite graphic board. There is
: virtually no software for it, other than a handful of graphic viewers,
: and the card itself is plagued by several hardware limitations and 
: firmware bugs (not that the firmware was ever completed in the first
: place, it's still rather alpha-ish). Sequential Systems seems to have
: no interesting in doing anything more with it, and Jawaid Bazyar (the
: card's co-designer and main programmer) is no longer associated with
: them. I also find it disappointing that despite all this, the price
: for the Second Sight still remains ridiciliously high. 

It's a kind of vicious circle. Users wait for more second-sight
specific software to appear before they buy this card. Developers
wait for more cards to be sold before they would write programs
for them.

The sales of Convert3200 have been boosted because Joe sells it
now in a bundle with LemminGS. (Correct me, Joe, if I say something
wrong). People want to have some fun :) I think one or two great
SecondSight games would boost the sales of this card, too.

Perhaps a VGA version of a roleplaying game would be a good idea?
I suggest that Dave Roberts stops playing hide and seek with Dr. Tom
and continues the development of DungeonQuest for the SecondSight
card.

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