25 Aug
2015
25 Aug
'15
9:59 a.m.
I just noticed the September 2015 issue of Nuts & Volts has, right on
its cover, a project to outfit a Commodore PET with color (digital
RGBI) output. It requires a PET with the Universal Dynamic PET
motherboard, the one that could be switched between 40 and 80 columns
via jumpers; the actual output is only in 40 because of memory
limitations. The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
foreground and 16 background colors per pixel, but it says the author
has also made it output 8-bit analog RGB foregrounds with one fixed
background color.
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Eric Christopherson
25 Aug
25 Aug
10:45 a.m.
Nuts and Volts is a neat little magazine ... I had a subscription for a
while back when I was in high school ... I ought to re-up one of these days.
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Eric Christopherson <
echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
I just noticed the September 2015 issue of Nuts &
Volts has, right on
its cover, a project to outfit a Commodore PET with color (digital
RGBI) output. It requires a PET with the Universal Dynamic PET
motherboard, the one that could be switched between 40 and 80 columns
via jumpers; the actual output is only in 40 because of memory
limitations. The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
foreground and 16 background colors per pixel, but it says the author
has also made it output 8-bit analog RGB foregrounds with one fixed
background color.
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Eric Christopherson
2:55 p.m.
New subject: Nuts and Volts and other magazines (Re: ColourPET)
On 8/25/2015 12:45 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Nuts and Volts is a neat little magazine ... I had a
subscription for a
while back when I was in high school ... I ought to re-up one of these days.
Best,
Sean
It is worth subscribing for a full year -- you get access to back
issues. Absolutely worth it.
I used to subscribe to Everyday Practical Electronics as well, but when
they stopped making issues available as PDF's they lost me as a
customer. I gotta believe that this attempt to avoid pirating has cost
them an awful lot in opportunity cost - sales/customers lost.
JRJ
11:42 a.m.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Eric Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
The specific project in the magazine allows four 16
foreground and 16 background colors per pixel,
Sorry -- of course I meant "allows for 16 foreground and 16 background
colors per character". The display is still only text.
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Eric Christopherson
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