Re: video card for IIGS

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:
> 
> Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:
> 
> >Mitchell Spector wrote:
> >> present. The card will also not work in an Apple IIe (unless there is a
> >> different firmware version I'm not aware of; anyone know?).
> >
> >They did adverse a different "version" for the IIe when it was still
> >available.
> 
>     I seem to remember that, it shipped with only 512K on-board. Did it have
> any other hardware differences, or a different firmware ROM?

Both myself and our User group bought the Second Sight card for the
IIgs. I
don't have our user groups card here but I believe it was identical to mine.
They have 1mb and rev 1.4 BEEF 24 EPROM.
 
> >However, both mine and our user groups work fine in a IIe
> >except  of course in Double-hi-res mode. I haven't had it in a IIe in a number
> >of years but I seem to recall that it wouldn't work in conjunction with the
> >TransWarp.
> 
>     Hmm, interested. I know the card is technically supposed to work in an
> Apple IIe, though I figured it was something that hadn't yet been supported,
> such as Double-Hi-Res, Fill-Mode, 3200 color mode or (my memory is a little
> fuzzy here) 24-bit color in SS-native mode. Future firmware updates were
> supposed to address these, but they never happened.

I didn't nave it it the IIe very long and that was some time ago. As I
recall 
the problem was with Double-Hi Res. Possibly there might have been other 
problems if I had used it more. It happened that I acquired an AE RGB 
Digital prism for my RamWorks at about the same time. I compared the 
two cards a bit and figured the AE RGB card was better choice in the IIe
especially since it didn't take up a slot. 

>     The manual does mention it working in a IIe, though when I tried plugging
> into an Enhanced IIe, all I could display was 40 columns text mode. I'm
> fairly sure I removed most other cards to eliminate the possibility of
> incompatibilities too.

I had a pretty loaded IIe, I believe I used the card in slot 3. The only 
hardware compatibility problem I recall is the TransWarp. I should give
it 
another try and see.

	Wayne