The inventer had joined this list at one point, IIRC his name is Paul Andreasen.
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015, Bob Pigford <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
