Re: Commodore 8296GD

From: Michał Pleban <*lists_at_michau.name*> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:02:17 +0200 Message-ID: <506753C9.7080109@michau.name> · lists_at_michau.name

Hello!

Rhialto wrote:

> Well, as the board seems simpler than the HSG board... (somebody wrote
> that the chip on that was rather complicated to emulate)
> if you find out enough details about this, I'd be happy to write an
> emulation for it to include in VICE.

Sure, I'll try to figure it out. As I can see, it just uses the original
CRTC chip by "faking" the character set somehow as hires graphics. The
bitmap to display most probably comes from the extra RAM. So far I was
able to write a simple bitmap displayer in BASIC ;-)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/222187_10151041489882026_2036796824_n.jpg

Regards,
Michau.

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