[Coco] Re: S-video Prospects...

Torsten Dittel Torsten at Dittel.info
Sat Dec 17 14:57:51 EST 2005


> Also, according to the manual, the GIME chip in the NTSC & PAL CoCo3s are
> the exact same chip; so saying that chroma & luma are generated totally
> internally on the NTSC CoCo3, whilst true, seems to be also true of the PAL
> CoCo3 as well...

AFAIR the corresponding pin of the GIME isn't connected on the PAL
board.
 
> If all of the 3 chips are commercially available, other than
> the actual building of the board, one _might_ be able to come up with a
> source of PAL boards without having to destroy PAL CoCo3's in the
> process... ;-)

Thanks God! :-)))
 
> How much trouble would a person be in if he or she were able to...
> "replicate" the PAL board? [[ Admittedly, it's not like said person would
> be costing Tandy any lost profits... ]]

Why not create a daughterboard with Roy's VGA design?

Regards,
Torsten




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