Re: Second Sight again...

[iigs@wam.umd.edu (Geoff Weiss)]

Alexander Siegfried <ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>Excerpts from the review of the Second Sight card in
>GS+:
>
>"...the text looks exactly like the standard set of
>characters that you see on an IBM PC!"

Characters are two pixels wide instead of one pixel wide.  I think
it is much easier on the eyes.
>
>"...the old Double Hi-Res video mode just doesn't work
>with the Second Sight card."

A free upgrade from Sequential will fix this when it is ready.  I thought
this was a problem with the Apple RGB monitor, not with SVGA monitors.

>"Another missing video mode (...) is Fill-Mode."

Besides Animasia and some demos, what products use this mode?

>"After (...) a while I began to notice that graphics
>seemed to draw a little slower."

This is just an illusion.

>"If you have fast animation (...) you'll notice that the
>animation looks jerky..."

Tetris is jerky, but Task Force looks almost perfect.

>"The Second Sight card is an AMAZING product."

It is amazing since it is the first (and probably only) product which
gives the GS a better resolution and more colors.
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