Re: VGA for Carte Blanche operational

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Alex Freed wrote:
> Well, as I mentioned before I was working on an LCD friendly 
> implementation of a VGA video adapter for the CB. What I had before was 
> a piece cut out of a full FPGApple that didn't look all that great on 
> anything but an analog VGA display.
> Now what I consider to be a main default application for the CB is done. 
> It works well enough so I don't need to keep an extra composite monitor 
> on the table any more! Look at the pictures:
>
> http://alexfreed.com/FPGApple/CarteBlancheVGA.html
>
> I optimized it for the text and I dare say the text is done right. I 
> made another mode for 80 col text using 640x480 and 8x8 fonts but never 
> used it as the more genuine looking Apple's own font is readable enough.

Very nice, Alex!

The principle improvement in the text over most monitors attached to
Apple video is that the effective bandwidth is so high that the single
(Apple) pixel verticals are exactly the same brightness as the multi-
pixel horizontals.  The font looks exactly as it was supposed to!

-michael

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