Re: Second Sight news??

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

On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Krishna Sadasivam wrote:

> 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...)

Michael Hackett has been working on his video driver subsystem for the
SS for a while now. He recently moved, got a new job, ...so development
has slowed for a while. But, he it is still a work in progress!

Since you read the ss-devel mailing list you probably know the following
but for the benefit of others....

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 :-) )  He 
has his API and Driver docs on his web site (don't have the URL handy)
and I reccommend that any and all programmers take a look and see
what you think.