Re: C65 on Ebay

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 20:23:17 +0100
Message-Id: <E6537ECD-9C20-4E13-BCDB-4FD98A407EFA@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2017-11-05, at 19:02, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
> 
>> AFAIK that is how you have to genlock. Synchronising the system clock
>> just gives you the correct pixel clock, you also have to send hsync
>> and vsync reset pulses into the amiga so that it knows when the frame
>> and lines start. I assume the copper list gets restarted as soon
>> vsync is reset & that it detects which interlace field to display
>> because of the relationship of vsync/hsync.
> 
> Well, you can use a PLL for the system clock oscillator and control the
> PLL so sync *outputs* from the Amiga is in phase with sync from the
> signal you genlock onto.

Theoretically looks like you could probably do this (and then constantly monitor for drifting and react), but the questions are:

1) why make it more difficult and expensive while at the same time potentially less reliable and slower to lock?

2) what for - if there is nobody willing to listen to those sync pulses anyway?

>> I don't know if you can use it to generate custom video modes larger
>> than the standard modes, but ECS came along and allowed you to
>> generate whatever mode you wanted anyway.
> 
> Maybe sometime in a distant future I might try that :)

Let us know when you get some interesting results! :-)

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