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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: 3200 pics
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Date: 13 Aug 90 20:53:59 GMT
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hzink@alchemy.UUCP (Harry K. Zink) writes:

>I do agree that the 3200 color display and manipulation technology is an 
>exciting thing for the ailing GS.  It is just unfortunate that people liek 
>Jason Harper, judging from an interchange of information I had with him while 
>working on the Visionary project by the ill fated Virtual Realities, find this 
>technology to be useless and not working.

Jason Harper doesn't deserve to program the GS. This guy gives up too easily:

1. He says the VOC can't be sync'd to. Bull. You call poll VBL from it, among
	other things.

2. His 3D rotation program INSISTS on using the 'official' apple math software
	IN REALTIME !! Hasn't this guy ever heard about precomputed tables?

3. His GIF decoder (SHRConvert 2.1) won't allow any image larger than 64K and
	it is S-L-O-W... I have a BASIC/ML hack that is three times faster.

I think you get the idea.

BTW, what's happened to the Visionary as a product? I never did get a chance
to order one (college bills and all) or to tell you how to make a better
genlock card than Apple's.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu