In article <475499E1.9030304 at pacbell.net>,
Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> writes:
There were other graphics cards on S-100 too.
I've seen (recently) an
S-100 card that had one of the TI bitmap & sprite generator ICs on it.
Maybe it would be a fun "extend my S-100 machine" project to add a
simple graphics frame buffer? You could put a frame buffer on the
card, expose a window of the frame buffer via memory mapped I/O on teh
bus and a simple VGA output controller in an FPGA. I don't know what
you'd do with it after that, since it would be so non-standard that
there isn't any "off the shelf" software you could use with it, but it
might be a nice retro-fit!
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