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Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #16

why not just use an sram chip with another avr microcontroller to copy video memory into and just have the ATmega 328 read the sram for video data? Click to expand... I guess y…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 21:35

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #14

Can the expansion cards access all of the normal system memory? If so, you could certainly access the video ram directly. Otherwise, why not just use an sram chip with another avr …
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 20:09

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #13

if you want to spider-web your apple with 30 gauge jumpers maybe you could only do low rez then yes, but your still sampling the video data and then post processing it to output, s…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:52

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #12

Making an add-in card to replace the onboard video out and having it read the video portion of the ram makes more sense than trying to capture the output frame by frame. Perhaps it…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Thu, 29 Apr 2010 - 04:03

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #9

oh I have been thinking about it sorta half hart, I am using a tv card in my computer, and it makes 80 col text impossible to read, growing up with the apple monitor II green scree…
68kMLA Hardware by Osgeld Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 21:19

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #8

Is it possible to easily modify or add circuitry to make some kind of digital sync signal for the monitor? Any chance an IC analog to digital (ADC) converter might suffice?
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 20:26

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #7

There are a couple of things that can make a TV mess up on an Apple II or II Plus. First, composite NTSC video is 525i, 30 frames of 525 lines each second interlaced in 2 fields of…
68kMLA Hardware by H3NRY Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 05:54

The original CRT iMac's popularity today — #17

I would argue that the G3 iMac will eventually become a valuable item because of the following: It was iconic, yet has now become a complete white elephant. they are readily avai…
68kMLA PowerPC by johnsonfromwisconsin Wed, 28 Apr 2010 - 00:06

Introdution — #5

You can find my story here: http://68kmla.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13353 Regards, Emiel
68kMLA 68k by Emiel Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 21:42

Introdution — #4

Nice Mac history. I look forward to your IIfx story in Mac II, Quadra & Centris later. Glad to meet you.
68kMLA 68k by IIciguy Tue, 27 Apr 2010 - 15:29

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #6

Number 018 http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apple2/faq/part16/ From: Michael Pender and Rubywand 018- What is the usual way to connect an Apple II to a display? For a IIgs, you con…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 21:29

WGS 9150, are they rare? — #16

TRAQ: How are the conditions in your attic? Humidity and heat/cool cycles are hell on plastics. Click to expand... Not great. It rarely gets below 40F around here, but in the …
68kMLA Hardware by trag Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 17:22

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #5

I remember someone told me that modern comb filters on the last generation or two of tube TV's was to blame for the useless image that is generated by older computer systems that o…
68kMLA Hardware by Paralel Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 01:52

New Retro Computing Magazine!! — #9

I can say with some degree of certainty that we won't be doing paper reprints – it's just too labour intensive to print off one or two copies at a time. Number 2 is coming along n…
68kMLA Software by luddite Mon, 26 Apr 2010 - 01:16

Latest acquisition: //c plus THREE IIgs and more! — #4

Nice score, I got a ][gs back in june but haven't been able to use it (TVs make terrible composite monitors). The one time I did use it, the power supply was making noises. Clic…
68kMLA Hardware by Nathan Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 22:18

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #19

I was trying to place my mind into a glorious time "2 years" past too. I currently live in a town which may have four Macs in it, two of which belong to one person and none of whi…
68kMLA OS 9 by II2II Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 21:37

New Retro Computing Magazine!! — #8

Sounds good to me, couldn't get the first due to being too busy to notice it had gone out of print. Might miss the second due to monetary shortage by way of outlay to buy an Apple …
68kMLA Software by Nathan Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 21:05

New Retro Computing Magazine!! — #7

PDF for the back issues would be cool. Of course I would love a paper version of issue 2 so when it's ready I will cue up for a copy.
68kMLA Software by Temetka Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 20:45

MacOS 9.1 vs Ubuntu 9.10 — #18

Good point. I've trimmed down all my of computers and now have: My sawtooth My BeigeG3 MT My 5300cs My 8600 soon to be parted out However if this was 2 years ago and I still …
68kMLA OS 9 by Temetka Sun, 25 Apr 2010 - 20:44
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