--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP!> > > > I think this project has lots of potential. I think it > would be interesting to use the "Hirose" or > "IDC" connector to drive signals suitable for EGA, > CGA or MDA monitors (making the digital graphics circle > complete). You could also try to drive VT100 or better > terminals using a suitable (RS-232) Signal converter, but > you would probably need interrupts for that. > > > > RS-232 (or the 5v version) would be easy to do in the > hardware. OGD1 > could do buffering, and it can also do interrupts. > Yes, but would anybody want to? On second thought, multi-port serial cards are available with a PCI interface. I don't really see how the OGD1 could help with terminal emulation. Any accelerated AAlib rendering would be limited by the data-rate. Now, implementing a light pen may be a good fit for the hardware. I think they fell out of favor because you would be limited to making dark marks on a bright image. (Touch screens don't care about the color) A light pen may not work with modern LCDs though. Regards, James Phillips > > -- > Timothy Normand Miller > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti > Open Graphics Project __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
