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Re: TurboRez

"magnusfalkirk" <dean.phares@gmail.com> wrote in message 00478933-2023-4dab-b4e0-20e84942d897@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com">news:00478933-2023-4dab-b4e0-20e84942d897@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
On May 26, 4:04 pm, Toinet <antoine.vig...@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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 ;-)
>
> Antoine Vignau
> Brutal Deluxe Software

< According to a short piece I found here:
<
< http://www.apple2.nu/docs/GenieLamp/1995/Oct.txt
<
< Joe Kohn had four prototype boards back in 95,
< but there wasn't much of anything on hem.
<
< Dean

Hmmm, according to what I just read there, he had 2 boards, not 4,
and they were bare, not a thing on them. He said he was keeping one
for nostalgic reasons, and wasn't sure what he was going to do with
the other one.

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com