[Coco] CoCo monstrosity |was: [OT] Atari 8-bit video card

[T. Franklin]

Yee have little faith, Nick! :o)



-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Marentes [mailto:nickma at optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 05:25 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: [Coco] CoCo monstrosity |was: [OT] Atari 8-bit video card

I would imagine that the extra video RAM will be included with the new video hardware, making it seperate to the CoCo's RAM.This would mean that access to it will be slower going through a "port" address.Also, if you're talking VGA higher res and maybe more colors, then that means a larger than 64K video ram to update. I think this will make it no good for games but great for show images.I'm wondering if a scanline doubler for the existing GIME output is all that's needed for LCD monitor display... of which Roy has already done this.Nick--Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttp://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco