Now, now, Jan, no need to get snippy ;-) Although I'm pretty sure that the answer is as Brian posted, I did (and still do) want to do some testing on a real DVI as you asked instead of making an assumption; I thought about the same thing quite a few years ago and did some investigating, even disassembling parts of the Disk BASIC overlay, but unfortunately can't find my notes from that time.
Unfortunately I didn't realize that this was an urgent issue requiring immediate action and thought it could wait until I could find some time to dig the DVI out of storage, find a monitor, hook up an LA, etc. etc. Sorry you couldn't wait; that's the trouble with asking hobbyists to do something for you... I understand that you want a solution that connects through the system bus and emulates DVI video exactly; I just wanted to display the M100's screen across the room on a 40" TV while comfortably reposing an the couch playing games, so I chose the easy way using the serial port. I thought maybe this would be interesting while waiting for Ken's complete solution (especially since using the com port allows a wireless Bluetooth connection), but apparently not, so I was curious what you and others wanted to do that this didn't satisfy. As John pointed out it does tie up the serial port, but it seems that you might also be able to use the same connection with TS-DOS or similar. BTW, there's also an article in Portable100 about using the parallel port, but although I happen to have the exact obsolete hardware used it looked a lot more complicated and limiting. I'm not sure where you're getting '40 x 16' video as in your other post; AFAIR it's either the normal 8 x 40 or 24/25 x 80. One other thing: the DVI is text only; if you're going to the trouble (as Ken probably will) then you might want to also add graphics (even if only the PSET etc. functions) and maybe even colour, which will obviously complicate the situation somewhat. m ----- Original Message ----- From: VANDEN BOSSCHE JAN To: m...@bitchin100.com Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 8:33 AM Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves What's so interesting abou an external screen ? I can hook up a HDMI 24" screen to my modern laptop, but you don't see me hauling one around. It is just another thing that makes working on you computers a bit more comfortable when you're not on the move. You only use your Model T when you travel ? The DVI is the old-school equivalent of a docking station or a port-replicator. Why would it be useless to re-create that with modern technology, certainly now that 'its so cheap? Anyway, forget it, forget I asked. I have gotten the impression that by asking something that doesn't sound useful for the technical guys, I have irritated those people. Sorry guys, I won't do it again. Just drop it. Greetings from the TyRannoSaurus / Jan-80@work From: M100 [mailto:m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] On Behalf Of John R. Hogerhuis Sent: dinsdag 13 februari 2018 20:16 To: m...@bitchin100.com Subject: Re: [M100] List of wanna haves On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:02 AM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: I guess the thing that makes it relatively uninteresting for me is that you'll have to be tethered to a display of some kind, which negates the most attractive aspect of the ModelT, its portability; you might as well just run VT on a laptop. m Well might nice for dev on real hardware. But the only time I do that is when I’m testing serial port stuff so, yeah. Which I think is why when we’ve talked about this before the parallel port seems the better way. But then you need even more hardware. — John. VIVAQUA et HYDROBRU ont fusionné. VIVAQUA est votre société d'eau en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. VIVAQUA en HYDROBRU zijn gefusioneerd. VIVAQUA is uw waterbedrijf in het Brusselse Hoofdstedelijk Gewest. Rejoignez-nous sur Facebook - Volg ons op Facebook DISCLAIMER Pensez à l’environnement, n’imprimez cette page et ses annexes que si c’est nécessaire. Ce message électronique, y compris ses annexes, est confidentiel et réservé à l’attention de son destinataire. Si vous n’êtes pas le destinataire de ce message, merci de le détruire et d’en informer l’expéditeur. Toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation de ce mail est dans ce cas interdite. La sécurité et l’exactitude des transmissions de messages électroniques ne peuvent être garanties. Denk aan het milieu; druk deze pagina en de bijlagen alleen af als het nodig is. Dit e-mailbericht (inclusief zijn bijlagen) is vertrouwelijk en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Als dit bericht niet voor u bestemd is, wordt u verzocht het te wissen en de afzender te informeren. Het is in dat geval niet toegestaan dit bericht te verspreiden, te kopiëren of te gebruiken. We kunnen niet garanderen dat de gegevensoverdracht via het internet veilig en nauwkeurig is.
