Re: Computer Eyes IIe

["Warren 'Llama' Ernst" <wernst@gmail.com>]

On Mar 26, 7:06 pm, capknight <cepheusfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 6:30 pm, James Littlejohn <nargut...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 26, 12:21 pm, capknight <cepheusfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello,
> > > 3. Anyone have the proper software for a external black box computer
> > > eyes?
>
> > Computer Eyes by Digital Vision? Black box with two knobs for Sync and
> > Brightness?
> > Also, cable coming out the side that hooks into the internal game I/O
> > port?
>
> > I have the Owners Manual and 2 disks, one is 40 column and the other
> > is 80 column (marked double Hi-Res). If nobody can find them online, I
> > will hook up ADT and transfer them in a couple of days.
>
> Heya!
>
> Yea that's the black box! That was one for the IIe, but for some
> reason I read
> somewhere that there was a card too.
>
> I can't find the software you have on those disks. I tried a few
> places and had
> some possible pointers, but never came across them.
>
> If no one else knows a place to just FTP them in a few days I'll drop
> you a note
> if you have some time to dump them over.
>
> Thanks!
>
> C

I played with a ComputerEyes for the //e in the late 80's. It was
indeed a black box with two knobs that plugged into the 16-pin
internal joystick port. I don't recall there being any internal card.

And it certainly didn't record video. It captured video frames from
nearly any video source *like* a video camera, but the capture took at
few seconds, and then even more second to save the image. I saved all
of mine in DHR monochrome.

It was a fun little device to play with though...

-Warr