Re: Second Sight news??

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Paul Schultz <pschultz@med.wayne.edu> writes...

>What Michael is working on is a video system which 'wedges' itself
>between the program and the video hardware. It provides a common method
>for programming video irregardless of the video display. Of course, it
>requires a driver for the specific video card (SecondSight -- I don't
>expect any other Apple II video card to burst on the scene :-) )  > 

    The Apple Video Overlay Card is a kind of "video card" (in a loose
sense), afterall it does require the MB0 pin signal from a slot and 
has the GS's VGC chipset on-board to provide graphics and text. It
might be interesting to write a VOC driver that supports 640x400 in
interlaced. :) (Or come up with a driver or software that takes
advantage of SHR when used on an Apple IIe, although consider how
rare they are, it'd be for a small number of people).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca