Re: Neat way to generate video (sort of Apple related)

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article 
<e0d6208a-98ae-40b7-8883-0a05c570eff3@k8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
 mh4@deichjugend.de wrote:

> On Dec 1, 12:08�am, mojoehand <jg...@zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> > While this isn't directly Apple related, the genius of the method
> > reminded me of how Woz did the video for the Apple, using a few common
> > parts and lots of software. This is the modern version :-) Creating
> > video with a single PIC is just too incredibly cool!
> 
> Check out:
> http://www.ladyada.net/make/fuzebox/
> 
> * Full 256 simultaneous output colors, 240x224 pixel resolution
> * Tile & sprite support
> * Two player ports, either with Super Nintendo or classic Nintendo
> controllers
> * NTSC RCA composite and S-video out (PAL not supported at this time)
> * 4 channel output mono audio for music and effects
> * SD/MMC card support for future expansion
> * Built on an Atmel AVR core, 64KB flash and 4KB of RAM
> * Main microcontroller chip is preprogrammed with an STK500-compatible
> (sometimes referred to as Arduino-compatible) bootloader
> * Write game code in C, using fully open source tools on any platform
> 
> Increasingly OT, though ;-)

Well, the adafruit promise is refreshing as well as seasonal:

<http://www.adafruit.com/promise.html>

Cf: Lady Ada Lovelace:

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