Re: is any one???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: is any one???

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 galaga@zfree.co.nz wrote:
>
> > So why not connent the vector AVG board. to the pc and use it. i have a
> > starwars and a tempest which would be great to emulate my favorite games
> > eg vectrex, Atari, sega's, etc... because mame could setup the lines and
> > convert them to avg and then output them to the avg board.
>
> Ah -- a Vector monitor video controller card for PCs.
>
> Designing one has been discussed on this list many times. I don't think
> simply hooking up to a game board would be practical though. THere aren't
> generic inputs to the AVG section. The AVG is on the same board as the
CPU,
> so you would end up hacking directly into the board, picking up the data
> path. By the time you did all that, you could design a board from scratch
> with modern D/A converters probably much easier.

I'm building a card-I will post progress as it happens....
It will be VERY fast...

Aaron Howald
ahowald@w-link.net

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Received on Fri Oct 19 23:07:44 2001