Re: DoodlesKids - a painting program for young kids

[Toinet <antoine.vignau@laposte.net>]

On 26 mai, 20:04, Michael Kent <mich...@syndicomm.remove.this.com>
wrote:
> limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's the problem. You need a video mode that is not just for video
> > (and not interlaced), but something you can program on. I actually
> > thought SecondSight can be this card, but I never quite sure the
> > status of the project/product. But if some one can produce such a
> > miracle card, I am on for it.
>
> The Second Sight card was released and put into production.  I'm not sure
> how many were produced, but it was at least a few hundred.  They show up
> on eBay from time to time.
>
> There are a couple of programs that support it, a jpeg viewer called
> Third View and a game called Cogito II* were the most popular.

I know the guy who has written them quite well (sic):
- ThirdView is a 100% program which supported the same graphic file
formats as Convert 3200 but in no way it was capable of displaying
JPEG pictures.
- I once have rewritten JVPreRelease, a Japanese software, and reached
a 30% increase in unpacking. One version had the ability to display
JPEG pictures in colors but I have lost that version the same day as
my complete GS/OS 6.0.1 disassembly :-(
- The Return of Cogito was quite easy to write as the game logic
remained the same. Only the graphic routines had been rewritten with
an off-screen buffer and a table which contains flags for each line
needed to be drawn on the VGA memory of the Second Sight.

Both are still downloadable from http://www.brutal-deluxe.net/

>
> * Not to be confused with regular Cogito for IIgs's without Second Sight
> cards.

...which displays only greyscale pictures ;-)

>
> > And is Apple still selling such things?
>
> Ahh, no.
>
> Mike