On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Gregg Eshelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The next big foulup on the Mac TV was limiting it to 8bit video when being > used as a computer. Then there's the TV part being limited to 16 bit color > 16 bit color? thats not really an issue with NTSC as its only capable of about half (32 thousand colors) I'd like to see someone take a Mac TV, gut it and put a Mac Mini inside with > a USB ATSC TV tuner. Either keep the original CRT or replace it with the > innards from a same size SVGA CRT monitor. Bonus points if you can keep the > original Mac TV remote working with it. if the original Mac TV remote is infrared, its very easily possible. on Windows and Linux exists a program called LIRC that will decode the infrared signals from most any remote control, using one of a few different simple homebrew receiver circuits, and translate the button commands into keyboard button presses or special keycodes like Windows multimedia keyboard buttons, F-keys, volume up/down, etc. this program might also have been ported to the Mac OS too but i don't know. would be a very cool project for someone to do and if anyone does, please put it up somewhere in detail so i can read all about it :) -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
