Re: Apple ][gs VGA Card

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Al Bundy (shoemyst@qedbbs.com) wrote:
: Attention IIgs Users!!!

Yes! You caught my attention.

: You won't believe this, but the GS-SVGA Board "Second Sight" will be
: shipping from Sequential Systems very soon. This is no "Cheer Up" gag
: or any kind of gag. It features a 256 color pallete from a range of 16.7
: million. I am unaware of the graphics dimensions, but I'm sure there will
: be support for greater resolution than the present 320x200. My rough
: guess would be 1024x768, but I could be wrong. The Second Sight will 
: accept standard IBM-Style VGA Monitors. Stay tuned for further details.

Yes! I still cannot believe this. :) I have been waiting for TurboRez for much
too long. But Jawaid is a magician, so maybe I cannot believe this.

Any applications that support this? GNO? Switch It?

GNO + Second Sight will be a great product. If someone can at least hack
Finder to support this and give us a few finder extensions, this will be 
great.

My old IIGS monitor has lost its red beam. So now it acts like a stupid
monochrome monitor (occasionally the red beam will be bad and it looks 
perfect!). But I get so sick of a monochrome IIGS (Cannot even play those
card games because there is no difference between red and black cards) that
I am ready to get a Pentium system soon. I can't believe this, but I started
to really like OS/2!

: I hope to see one VERY SOON.

Same here. I am already excited. If this card can be out before the end of
this year and not costing more than US$200, I would definitely get it and
buy a new VGA monitor.

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