_"HOLY GRAIL" OF HAVING A VGA OR SVGA ADAPTER?_
Didn't Sergey already do that with his Trident 9K 8-bit VGA card? http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/isa-supervga -Alan On 2014-07-11 22:46, Andrew Bingham wrote: > All, > > I've been brainstorming about ways to get an IBM PC-compatible display going > with readily available parts. Either to use with the SBC-188 (or a modified > version thereof), or the S-100 MS-DOS Support Board + 8088 board. > > I think I've come up with a concept that would allow the Propeller to be used > in an IBM MDA-compatible configuration. > > This is not the "holy grail" of having a VGA or SVGA adapter but I think it > would be a good starting point as far as running a subset of MS-DOS programs > that manipulate the text buffer directly. > > Anyway let me know if it looks like this has any kind of merit. > > I have some more ideas in this direction involving a real dual port RAM PLCC > chip + the Propeller that might actually make CGA all-points-accessible > graphics possible as well but I am still doing some calculations to see if > the Propeller can handle it with "all cogs firing". > > Andrew B. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "N8VEM" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem [1]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout [2]. Links: ------ [1] http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem [2] https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
