2 Jul
2004
2 Jul
'04
7:04 a.m.
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:56, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
Yep. I wondered about a 5x5 matrix, but the numbers don't add up to make
it viable when you look at Econet speeds and the expected data size.
cheers,
Jules
At 17:13 01/07/2004, you wrote:
Well no worries if they are no good
waiting to hear back at the mo re. keyboards / displays...
(someone else mentioned software is needed??
They need a boot image on the server. For my NCD 88k one this is about
1.5MB from memory (I have a copy somewhere!) and is transferred using
TFTP to the Xterm on startup. All the NCD boot files were readily
available a few years ago for sure, although I've no idea about Xterms
from other vendors.
I've never played with an x-term, so was just
something else ot
put in the pile of "cool things I should play with someday when I have
infinate time" !
Ha ha! They are pretty cool to play around with - as mentioned it was
really the sound situation which stopped me seriously using mine in the
last few years (that and only 8 bit colour)
lol. :-) I didn't know, honest! Where is this
list, might be of interest
to me. Although this one is about the only mailing list I actually read
daily, out of the several I am subscribed to.
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it's low traffic, but there's some really clued-up people on there when
it comes to BBC stuff (and a lot of the other Acorn 8 bit machines)
[ Cub screen wall ]
Sounds good :-) Why not do some simple games too? Something as basic as
'pong' should be easy?
hmm, now that's an interesting idea. Wonder how well it'd work in
practice - there'd probably be about 1.5" of dead space between each
screen, so I'm not sure if that'd make it feel odd or not. Worth a try,
though :)
or ... I've got a touch-screen for a cub...
find
15 more and you can do a "hit the pop-up beastie" game :-)
Ha ha! Those might be a bit harder to track down...
Running numbers
through my head, it seems to be a viable project anyway.
Just a case of finding the time to actually implement it! (It started
out as a simple scrolling message system, but then it had occurred to me
just how stackable Cubs are too! :-)
16 monitors makes a nice 4x4 matrix - probably what made us both think of it.