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- From: JACS!Dr._Jolts@mast.citadel.moundst.mn.org
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
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- Message-ID: <2214206@mast.citadel>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 21:26:00 GMT
- Organization: Jersey Atari Computer Society - USA
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- I have two projects that I can not complete due to lack of information. One
- is what I would think would be of interest to any 8-bit user that is into
- graphics, including APAC and Colrview.
- I have come up with a way to capture images (full color RGB) in 1/60th
- second. Actually, it would be 1 or 3 7680 byte images. The process would be
- to hook up a composite video source to the video digitizer (similar to
- Computer Eyes), strip off the h-sync and v-sync signals for timing, send the
- raw video signal through a Chroma demodulator to a 4 bit flash ADC. The pixel
- data would be stored in a high speed 32k x 8bit SRAM on-board the digitizer.
- The timing, communication and control stuff could be controlled by a 65xxx
- CPU running at >=4MHz. The control program/OS for it could be written in
- MAC/65 and stored on EEPROM or similar device. Communications would be in
- parallel via the 2 joystick ports using pins 1-4 on both for data, pins 5&6
- on both for control handshaking and signaling. Finally, the data would be
- clocked into the computer RAM for storage on disc, printing and/or
- manipulation via a user interface program written in say BASIC XL or maybe
- TBXL or some such.
- The second project is regarding the conversion of a BBS program from Turbo C
- on the IBM platform to MAC/65 or Action! on the 8-bit. The program is
- Citadel:K2NE and I have all the necessary source code, docs and other info
- for it. The conversion could be made to work on upgraded XL/XE computers of
- >128k ram if need be. I've been considering the Newell 4Mb ram upgrade
- anyway. On the other hand, it could be written in modules that swap in and
- out as needed and be compatible with normal 103XE computers.
- Any takers?
-
- =>Dr. Jolts<=---------*
-
- You've had the power all along!
- Atari Computers-Real Business!
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