Re: TI-H: gb?


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Re: TI-H: gb?




Yes.  Easily.  All we need to know is the buss timing...  Then we could
have TV tunners for calcs, and this would probably pass if it wasn't to
big...

Grant


>Can it directly draw to the LCD tho?
>
>At 10:40 PM 12/6/98 -0900, you wrote:
>>
>>There is no way the PIC or AVR could handle NTSC.  They could do it at a
>>very very low resolution (blurly text) but thats it...
>>
>>In fact I've done it before, and you get big blocks of white areas.
>>Printing to monitors is alot easier than reading...
>>
>>What we need is the Scenix or PPC.  They can handle the entire feed and can
>>shorten the res down to the calc's size...
>>
>>Grant
>>
>>
>>>Well the code shouldn't be too dificult, or long. We could get away with a
>>>PIC or AVR, it doesn't matter. Assuming it is a greyscale camara (B/W),
>>>then it should be even easier. The only other problem is that if we wanted
>>>to have greyscale, then we'd have to draw direct to the LCD. I think this
>>>is possible via asm, is it? I thought the guy who wrote the ZShell asm
>>>guide was going to write a section on this... I'm not sure... ?
>>>
>>>>>I think it sounds like a cool idea, and see no reason to make suggestions
>>>>like
>>>>>go buy a camera. It was merely a thought, and IMO a rather good one. Just
>>>my
>>>>>$.02
>>>>
>>>>Either a quick cam and AVR/PIC/HC11/Z80/6800/6802/8008/4000 or what ever
>>>>you want to use.  Or we could just use a scenix or PPC embedded processor
>>>>to decode a live NTSC feed.
>>>>
>>>>Grant
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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