Re: Help! Need older version of Allison (Vision Plus card)

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

Steven Lichter <DieSpammer@Ikillspammers.com> wrote:

>Mitchell Spector wrote:
>>     My Visionary GS card (nee AST Vision Plus) finally arrived today!
>> However, after I installed it and running Allison 1.0.5, a message pops 
>> up on screen: "Enhanced Vision Plus digitizer not found." I then tried 
>> the old VisionEffects software (circa 1986) for original AST board and 
>> saw a similar message--no detection of the card.
>> 
>>     To make a long story short, I pulled every card from my IIgs and
>> tried every possible configuration to no avail. Doing a little digging
>> I found  a  _demo_ pre-release version of Allison 1.00 which does
>> in fact work. Unfortunately, as a demo, I cannot save images and
>> it has lots of glitches. It's only somewhat useful as a diagnostic tool.
>> 
>>     My conclusion is I need an older version of the Allison software
>> (v1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03 or 1.04). Or failing that, someone with an
>> EPROM burner to copy me the firmware Alltech shipped with the 
>> card. Functionally I think the Visionary GS and Enhanced Vision
>> Plus are the same, apart from firmware.
>> 
>> ...So I'm rather stuck. Can anyone out there help?
>> 
>> Mitchell Spector
>
>Did you try and contact Tony and see if they have any Roms around?

    I sent Tony an e-mail couple of days ago with a general question or
two about the card, no response so far. If anyone at KFest is reading
this, maybe they can let him know I'm in need of his wisdom. :)

    The About menu in the version I'm experimenting with now says 
"Allison Demonstration Version 1.0 - Copyright 1990". It only seems
to let me preview incoming video, though if I click the 'Process' button
a captured image appears with evenly spaced vertical bars running 
through it. I hope that's a limitation of the demo and not something
wrong with my card. On the other hand, I can freeze-frame a full
screen preview image and it appears fine so that's hopeful.

Mitchell Spector