Re: SecondSight & TrueColor

[neiderma@eden.rutgers.edu (Kid)]

>>  What was the "SuperSprite 16" board?

>last decade! :) A company called Synetix released this board back
>1982. It plugged into slot 7 of the Apple II,II+,IIe and worked by
>overlaying hardware sprites (each with it's own plane) onto the Hi-Res
>screen. It was a kind of graphic co-processor since it didn't require

I think I drooled over that thing every time it was advertised
in teh old ][ magazines. :)  The upper-end SuperSprite card
even had Mockingboard emulation on it (same basic sound chip)
to make the ][+/IIe the ultimate game machine.  I used to imagine
how much cooler the II would have been if Apple has bundled that
card with every machine they sold.  The C64 and Atari 8-bits of the
day would have died much sooner.