Re: ZVG firmware / the future of ZVG

Having done extensive arduino development in the past, I've kind of moved
beyond it. The arduino does use similar Atmel chips to what the zvg uses,
however. I just thing that it's better suited as a learning tool and less
as a final professional product platform. Once you know how to program the
microcontroller using C, you don't really need the arduino anymore, as it
just provides the simplified coding environment. Since the analog
components needed to actually run the monitor are complicated, I'd want to
design a dedicated board instead of a giant shield that sits on top of an
arduino. Also, I'm not sure if the bandwidth is there to run the games at
30+fps.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:41 PM, bruce.gettel <bruce.gettel@myactv.net>wrote:

> All,
>
> I am going out on a limb by mentioning this, as every single one of you
> has more tech expertise and knowledge in your little finger than I have in
> my entire body. But I thought I might ask if this could be done or
> developed using the Arduino open development platform.
>
> I read sites like www.hackaday.com all the time, and some folks are
> getting some pretty cool things done with that platform and its various
> shields/add-ons.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --- js@cimmeri.com wrote:
>
> From: "js@cimmeri.com" <js@cimmeri.com>
>
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: ZVG firmware / the future of ZVG
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:51:46 -0500
>
>
>
> Would it be possible to send the SOUND out over USB as well, and have a
> line level speaker jack on the new ZVG card?
>
> - JS
>
> Jamesjonhagen wrote:
>
> Apologies for jumping too far ahead. Just looking at the difficulty
> dealing with the overall DOS setup with newer motherboards that are missing
> the parallel port. i.e. if you can get USB going, how will everything
> else fall into place on a newer mother board within DOS? As already
> mentioned, I've had little luck getting DOS sound going in anything later
> than a P4.
>
> Has windows ZVG gotten anywhere? If it has, the idea of USB would be
> great. If it hasn't then getting USB running on newer MBs within DOS might
> not work out as the other issues (sound) would likely be a problem.
>
> James H
>
>

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Received on Tue Apr 17 13:49:58 2012