Hi,

there is one thing to consider: the visual effects are intended to be 
started in more or less timeframes. Every unix will not give an 
application full control of the hardware. For your needs you will be 
looking for a real time OS. That is the reason why today sound 
studios still use Ataris and such. 

NetBSD can do the job, but you should be aware, that if for some 
reasons during a show eg. a filsystemcheck starts or some 
programm uses all the CPU time, the visual effects could get out of 
sync.

HTH

mike

On 17 Aug 2001, at 8:16, delien@delien.com wrote:

> I am in an electronic band that does a lot of shows.
> 
> We currently use an Apple ][c with a HUGE BASIC program for visuals
> during the show connected to a Video projector.
> 
> Our choice of the Apple was this:
> 
> 1- They were free and I have 4 ][e's 1 ][gs and 1 ][c
> 2- If someone steals it, I have more
> 3- If one breaks I can easily replace it
> 
> I recently got my hands on a 486sx laptop
> 
> I would like to load NetBSD on it and use it for future visuals
> 
> Is there any good low resolution graphic scripting or programming
> languages that I can use with the VGA port that can handle the low
> power?
> 
> 
>