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- From: Christos Dimitrakakis <mbge4cd1@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Chunky <-> Planar conversion hardware
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 11:58:28 GMT
- Organization: Manchester Computing
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- The best way to do it, actually, is to change the hardware that reads the data from
- memory and encodes them to be output to the monitor, so that it can operate either
- in chunky or planar mode. Easy-peasy. Of course, such a thing will have to be developed
- as a full-custom chip, but it is relatively easy:
- you just put some tri-states at the input and output of the chip and add whatever hardware
- a normal PC card uses to read data from video RAM to the chip. Size should not be a problem,
- as our video chips are relatively small.
- See?
- A simple, but expensive and extremely unlikely solution.
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