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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
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- Subject: Re: Chunky <-> Planar conversion hardware
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:26:13 GMT
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- > The best way to do it, actually, is to change the hardware that reads the da
- > memory and encodes them to be output to the monitor, so that it can operate
- > in chunky or planar mode. Easy-peasy. Of course, such a thing will have to b
- > 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 wha
- > a normal PC card uses to read data from video RAM to the chip. Size should n
- > as our video chips are relatively small.
- > See?
- > A simple, but expensive and extremely unlikely solution.
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- Didn't the AKIKO chip in the cd32 do chunky to planar conversions?
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- Lee
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