Lee, I agree that this Serial-VGA device from the UK is intriguing. Is the code for the Mikro Kolor device code available?
Bob From: M100 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Kelley Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 7:00 PM To: Model 100 Discussion Subject: Re: [M100] Serial to VGA module I wonder if the code for the Mikro Kolor device would be helpful at all. On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:36 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Joe Grubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I saw this posted on a Facebook group and it got me thinking. I wonder if > this could be repurposed (with some ancillary hardware and ROM tweaks) to > give the Model 100/200/102 an external VGA display for very little money: > > http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/serial-vga > > It accepts serial data and drives a text based VGA display at 800x600 > resolution. Additionally, it understands escape sequences to manage simple > text windows, etc. It's pretty cool, and it got my wheels turning. > Says the source code is available so you could modify it to handle the full character set and raw escapes. -- John. -- "I will never in my lifetime make a film that cannot be seen by the whole family" Arther P. Jacobs
