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Re: Worth more dead then alive

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"Bill Kendrick" <bill@newbreedsoftware.com> wrote in message 
news:4fa0c10a$0$16199$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
> Rick <ricortes at yahoo dot com> wrote:
>> "Trevor" <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> wrote in message
>> news:jnpf9r$opc$3@dont-email.me...
>> > Have you seen the Raspberry Pi?
>> > http://www.raspberrypi.org/
>
>> Sheesh! There goes another $35 of my hard earned money in the near future
>> and a journey back into Linux.
>
> LOL! :)
>
>
> <snip>
>> Right now it looks like some flavor of Android and ARM processor are 
>> going
>> to win. Of course 30 years ago Digital Research, Atari, and Word Perfect
>> looked unstoppable.
>
> Yeah.  I'm making no bets on anything these days. :)
>
> RIM was big.  Now they're a joke.  Launching fake protests
> (paid protestors) outside Apple stores in Australia.  Seriously?
> Grasping for relevancy, I guess.  (And all my cynicism comes as just
> a bystander. :) )
>
> -- 
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer

There's just so  many ways to separate me from my money!<grin>
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/545516201/Worldwide_smallest_smart_android_tv_box.html

The specs on that one match my desktop except for hard drive. My laptop has 
it beat.

It's a confusing time and I am easily confused. I've heard VGA is at the end 
of its product life. I've heard real modems are selling for ~$300 because 
they are still used by POS for credit cards and electric transfers: No one 
trusts the internet or wireless.

I don't think you can buy anything but a SATA hard drive and IDE controllers 
are going the way of the dodo.  Remember when there was something called a 
Sound Blaster?

This type of info used to be good news for someone like me, living off the 
sharp edge of technology, but now people are so hard up they are stealing 
stuff just for recycling. I may pick up a few more LCD VGA monitors just for 
fool'in.

I've been really dissatisfied with stock Atari video for a while. I've had 
an insight that may be cheap and work. There's a couple of techniques people 
have used for bank switching carts and some devices like the Covox. One is 
to latch the address lines and the other is to set up a single latch like a 
74LS374 in the memory map. There's shift registers like the 74LS165 that 
were used in early video for things like the Timex Sinclair and even Bob 
Woolley's 80 column mod. What I was thinking was the same signals that latch 
cart banking could be used to latch data into a 74LS165 except instead of 
doing it under processor control or via a separate video chip like a 6845 I 
should be able to get the signals from ANTIC. Done this way everything will 
be sync'd with the existing display and overlap w/o flicker. Antic will just 
go through its reading 40 bytes per scan line which will load the shift 
register with it's own RAM, Simple form would just be a the shift register 
and an 8k RAM with enough glue logic to make it work. Shouldn't cost more 
the $5 in parts.

Of course you could do something fancy, like use a 16 bit wide RAM and two 8 
bit shift registers with a fast dot clock to get 640x200 but that would add 
so much complexity I doubt if 1 in 1000 people could build it. Heck, I 
couldn't build it. I was happy with the ST 320X200 in 16 colors for games. I 
think I could be happy with and 8bit that throws 16k<8k system + 8k RAM> of 
display up.

Rick 

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Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-04-29 09:55 -0700
  Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-05-01 13:57 -0600
    Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-01 17:00 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive bill@newbreedsoftware.com (Bill Kendrick) - 2012-05-02 05:07 +0000
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-02 08:33 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-04 15:58 -0600
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-04 16:23 -0700
          Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-05 08:39 -0600
            Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-05 14:47 -0700
              Re: Worth more dead then alive Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2012-07-07 01:15 +0400
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-06 17:09 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-08 14:47 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-09 10:12 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-10 21:43 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 13:43 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-12 19:16 -0700

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