Re: TurboRez

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>I am sure that the veterans of csa2 all remember the TurboRez video
>board from William St-Pierre of RezTek.

    Certainly do. Right along with memories of other ill-fated 
hardware prototypes: Duet card, Apple Ethernet, Mark Twain, 
Avatar, VTech IIgs compatible, and many more.

>At the active time of Brutal Deluxe Software, Olivier and I were
>exchanging a lot with him, hoping to see the card go into production
>but with the release of the Second Sight, he ceased development of it.

    I was writing back and forth to Bill too back then. Actually I was one of
the first to hear he cancelled the project (in March 1995 he passed on his
press release for me to share here--you can find it in Google News). I even
still have one of his original phamplets he mailed to me, describing the
features the card was going to have. Also have the "TurboBee Demo"
on disk here. :)

>If I remember correctly, it has been shown in one KansasFest. It had
>powerful video modes with overlays and other nice graphic features for
>game development.
>
>What the card close to completion? Has anybody got any "recent"
>information on the card? I would like to hear a little bit more on it
>now.
>
>If you want to share your knowledge or if William St-Pierre would like
>to donate his work to the community, I'd be glad to know ;-)

    I know the project started in 1989 and was shelved only a year later. 
If memory serves right he resurrected it, creating a new version of the 
card from the ground up. It would have been completed (it was very 
close to it from what he told me) but the Second Sight beat it to the 
market, and forced him to shelve it once again.

Mitchell Spector