Re: New CBM-II discoveries

From: Steve Gray <sjgray_at_rogers.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:30:40 -0400
Message-Id: <777B6D75-81CF-4FD4-A775-BA6384CF12DE@rogers.com>
The hires card uses the thomson ef series vdp chips. There are several variations which have different resolutions from 512*256, 512*512, to 1024*512. These are strictly bitmap mode chips so no need to modify the screen editor code. Output will be to a separate monitor.

Steve


> On Jun 25, 2018, at 8:38 AM, Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 4:25 AM smf <smf@null.net> wrote:
>> On 24/06/2018 02:32, Steve Gray wrote:
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>> > you probably need to repeat the same draw command with a different plane selected corresponding to the on bits of the desired colour.
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>> Using one port on the 6523 you can select which (any or all) of the 
>> drams will receive write strobes.
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>> The data in on each chip has an or gate, which is fed by another 6523 port.
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>> There is some RMW stuff going on that I don't understand.
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>> It is likely you can draw colour in one operation.
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> Will it be 160 x 100 hi-res mode? black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, yellow, and white...64 color combos.  There is I read for the 8032 color that never launched a 32K Screen Edit ROM.  Works with BASIC 4 and if this ROM exists may be convertable to be used in the CBM-II
> b 
Received on 2018-06-25 16:00:37

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