the service
manual) that the other 2 were luminance (Y) and
(PAL-encoded)
chrominance, or possibly composite colour video
and audio if it
feeds audio
through to the TV.
The composite video on the G7400 is Pal encoded, and I'm pretty sure
it is on the G7000. I have 2 sets of schematics. One for the
Odyssey2 (where every part number is an internal Magnavox number :-P
and the other for the G7000) - I seem to recall something about PAL
conversion on the RF modulator board. I probably just don't remember
right.
If one is not composite video, where is the sync encoded? On Y (i.e.
making it composite mono)? I suppose this could just possibly be
video
+ composite sync - just what I need.
>> >> What chips _other than the
8048_ are in this device? Is the
video side
>> >> custom or does it use one of
the many Philips video chipsets?
(Philips
>> >> Prestel terminals tend to be
stuffed with their Teletext IC's,
for
>
>> example...)
>Pretty boring, I'm afraid - 8245 and 6110 plus about 20 TTL chips.
I
What the heck are those?
8245 is a Nat Semi keyboard controller. This chip says Intel on it,
but
I was assuming, probably very rashly, that it was the same thing.
[Matt Pritchard]
We've been unable to find any info on the video chip; though it
supposed to be an Intel chip. Most of it has been reversed enginnered
though.
8 colors
4 sprites, 8 by 8 pixels, independantly positioned & colord. can be
double sized
12 characters, independantly positioned & colored, up to an 8 byte
tall strip from the character rom (512 bytes, 64 chars) can show just
part of a character.
4 quad characters. 4 characters positioned in a horizontal row with
one character spacing inbetween. independantly colored. Put two of
these together to make 8 consecutive text characters.
Background grid 10 by 8 blocks with 4 thin line segements around each
block. Complete off/on control of ever segment. Set a flag in the
video chip to fill in the large box to the right of each vertical line
segment.
The horizontal retrace is run into the 8048 so you can count scanlines
- that is how colors are changed midway down the screen.
6110 is a typo for 6810 :-), in fact Motorola MCM6810, a RAM chip.
Looking it up last night I discovered that it is in fact 128 by 8
(yes,
128 bytes!) so I cannot think what it is used for! (It is too slow to
be a video output buffer)
[Matt Pritchard]
Are you sure it's not 256 bytes?
Philip.