Re: Another reason to build an X/Y monitor(s)

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 22:00:29 -0700, "Aaron Howald" <ahowald@w-link.net> wrote:

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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neil Bradley" <nb@synthcom.com>
>To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
>Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:51 PM
>Subject: Re: VECTOR: Another reason to build an X/Y monitor
>
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>> > > For slightly more information go to: www.zektor.com and click on the ZVG link.
>> > Spiffy! Any ideas of cost? I assume any windows program can send data to the paralell port
>> > to run it?
>>
>> Not designed for Windows - DOS drivers will be provided. Besides, who
>> needs Windows to run a vector monitor? ;-)
>
>Actually, the board itself does not; but the program I am using to drive it does!
>Any program can drive it that can put pixels on the screen....and has to support 24/32 bit mode
>for tech reasons (DOS may work in 256 mode)...oh, and you also can only use ONE type of video card
>for some reason?!
>
>What baud rate is the paralell port set to?

There's no baud associated with parallel ports, but I plan on using the ECP
mode, which can DMA data at 2.67 MBytes per second (8mhz I/O bus, no wait
states). Though I really doubt the CPU on the Vector Generator could keep up
with that, or need to.

-Zonn
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Received on Tue Jul 2 23:26:40 2002