[Coco] another silly video idea

[David Gacke]

Hi James,

Speaking of video, how is your VHDL implementation of the GIME going?

An FPGA version of the GIME is the "best" solution to improve and update
the CoCo's video.


Dave

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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] another silly video idea

Bob

That is not as silly as you might think. Actually to make an 8 bit ISA
bus 
interface is easy. The hardest part is to get older 8 bit video cards
and data on 
them to write drivers for them. That thought has crossed my mind.

Then you no longer are slaved to the video logic contained within the
GIME 
Chip. The one major draw back is that these video cards often have
address 
ranges in the lower part of memory that would need to be translated up. 

james 

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> Ok, this has probably been discussed in the past but I was wondering
> about a different approach to using a VGA monitor on a CoCo. What
> about interfacing to an old 8 bit ISA video card... just like Scsi and
> MFM controller cards have been used.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Bob
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