Adalbert Goertz (be404@yfn.ysu.edu) wrote:
: Apple Video Overlay Card $89
: >>> What is it supposed to do?
I've got one.
It is effectively a gen-lock board for *any* Apple ][. It has on-board a
duplicate of the ][gs video circuitry, with composite video inputs and
outputs, and analog (][gs-compatible) RGB outputs. This thing allows you
to synchronize the Apple video display to an external video input, blend
the two via either keying or mixing or a combination of both, and send the
result out the composite and RGB outputs.
Which leads me to another question...
Those PhotoCD players: Just how much control over the image does one get
with those things via serial control? It seems to me that one could use
the VOC, HyperCard IIGS or HyperStudio, and a PhotoCD player to do
multimedia presentations with far better image quality than those
so-called multimedia computers can, simply because such a setup would
allow for TRUE multimedia.
It's a neat board. Apple should have introduced it when the ][gs was
first released...it could have kept the Amiga from taking over in the
cheap video market.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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