Re: Thoughts about Second Sight

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3q9pfq$136@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
Alexander Siegfried <ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>> You're judging the card before anyone has even had the
>> chance to program for it.
>Isn't anybody else judging the card's performance before
>actually seeing it?

   Assuming you meant to say 'everybody' not 'anybody,' we're juding
it off its hard and cold facts: [S]VGA modes, 512K - 1MB Vram, Z180
processor, etc. Those facts seem to be indisputable; if the SS does
not live up to these stats, we'll deservedly attack them for that.

> Who is talking about a possible Doom or
>whatsoever with SS? I feel people should be a bit more down to
>earth concerning SS...

   I believe it's Phillip Stevens or another one of those guys
from down under. It's mostly the programmers who want to do fun
stuff like that. I'm personally not holding my breath at all
for any one piece of software for the SS.


>> Agreed, the 65816 isn't up to the task of doing Doom full
>> screen at 12 fps. But then why expect the impossible?

>Because many (too many) GS users tend to think with SS their GS
>would finally become something like a 486 PC! As we both know,
>this is WRONG!

   Something like the exact video quality _possibilities_ of a 486 (or
386 or 286 or Pentium) with a SVGA card. If you think that the SS will
not live up to its published specs, when it has a SVGA chipset already
onboard, then say so. If you think that all GS types think that their
GS will perform like a 486, I'm not sure where you got that idea at
all.

Nathan Mates
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