30 May
2004
30 May
'04
6 a.m.
In message <m1BUFtp-000JC1C@p850ug1>
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote:
but I remember the images had a 'gap' down the
centre, like the
ones produced by a DRAM would (that's where the address decoder, etc, are
on the chip).
That sounds about right. I'd probably rig up a cheap camera lens
to focus the
image onto one of the halves of the RAM array.
I found the "Kuckuck" archive as well - it's in German:
<http://www.kurzschluss.com/kuckuck/kuckuck.html>
<http://www.kurzschluss.com/kuckuck/kuckuck.zip>
It uses a ceramic-with-gold-top NEC 4164 DRAM. Anyone got a few spares lying
around?
Maybe back then, but I am sure these days you can get
a junked camcorder for
not too much and extract the CCD.
I've got a few JVC camcorder viewfinders that
have been reverse-engineered to
the point of being able to display PAL composite video. I might try one of
them on my COSMAC ELF later, just to see if they can sync to NTSC as well.
OT:
And now to go back to the fun job of fiddling with a pair of dead Jenoptik
cameras. I've got one working, another just needs some connectors reseating.
I would like to know what the 8-pin SOIC chip that sits between the camera
controller and the video output. Hmm. Pin8 is video out.. Pin5/Pin6 GND, pin7
NC.. Hm. Fun! :)
Later.
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