Re: B/W X/Y?

From: Ed Henciak <eddie_at_telerama.com>
Date: Thu Apr 29 1999 - 13:07:50 EDT

In a Cinematronics monitor, are the X, Y, and Timer registers on the
monitor, or are they apart of the CPU boards (along with the PROM that
holds the new values when a LLT instruction is executed). I have never
worked with Cinematronics stuff directly. Thanks!

Ed

On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Andrew Wilson wrote:

>
>
> > Okay so maybe WG's weren't original stock, but they still would
> > work wouldn't they?
>
> As I recall, the Cinematronic games send digital information to the monitor,
> while (all?) other vector games send analog signals. So Cinematronic games won't
> work with an analog vector monitor (like the WG you are looking at). I also dimly
> recall that people have tossed around the idea of making a DAC board that would take
> the Cinematronic digital input and generate W-G compatible analog output, but if
> anyone's done this I haven't heard about it...
>
> Drew
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 29 12:07:58 1999

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