Re: A83: Color


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Re: A83: Color




Try changeing the op-amp power control registers of the lcd driver chip, If
I dont remember wrong, this is what makes the lcd go crazy..
try also to enter test mode.. 
this is done by writeing this to the lcd control port:

test mode: a value between $18 and $1F (doesnt matter which)
op-amp 1: a value between $10 and $13 (different levels I assume..)
op-amp 2: a value between $08 and $0C (            - " -          )

Thats about what you can do with the lcd controller exept the usual stuff
and hardware Y-scroll..
try it..  I'm sorry I can't.. (no 83 anylonger you know..)
A warning though..  I don't know how good it is for your LCD to fiddle with
this..  don't sue me if your lcd breaks..

//Olle



At 00:35 1998-12-29 EST, you wrote:
>Ha, I originally asked the color question, I'm glad that I at least have some
>support now :)   So anyway, in talking about those crashes, my calculator
>recently crashed where I had a solid, undoubtedly blue line about 3/4 of the
>way down the screen.  The only thing that worked on the calculator was
turning
>it on and off.  When you turned it on, the blue line would immediately
>apperar.  When you turned it off,  it would slowly fade away over about 2
>seconds.  The weird part is that it disappeared from the center out.  It
would
>disappear to something that looked like the outlines of the pixels, so the
>horizontal line turned into a bunch of unfilled, outlined, blue squares.  I
>didn't think the screen is capable of doing anything less than a pixel.  But
>anyway, I impressed a bunch of people at school with this.  So obviously the
>color isn't a miracle because of all the occurrences with crashes.  It seems
>like there'd surely be some way to control this.
>-Jared
>http://members.aol.com/jared173/calc/tivault.htm
>
>Oh yeah, and don't yell at me if the outlines of the pixels are completely
>impossible, I had a lot of people verify it, though.
>
>
>
>
><< >
> >At 22:15 1998-12-28 -0500, you wrote:
> >>                                     I was amazed. The End. (Oh and  then
> I
> >>was pissed cause my program crashed...)     Anyways you get the idea, some
> >>type of  color is possible, but I dunno how...     -Dan
> >
> >What you did, was that you accidently changed some control values in the
> >lcd controller..  I have seen this for myself..
> >there is unfortunatly no way to control this though.. or to make anything
> >but horisontal lines.. so it is unfortunatly not very useful..  if you
> >looked closely on that line, you would probably se that it was solid to..
> >not divided into pixels.. (if I don't remember wrong..  I don't own an 83
> >anylonger.. in fact.. I never did :) I just borrowed it)
> >
> >//Olle
>  >>
>
>


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