I have a plcc puller but these chips are not friendly.. anyone know a good puller for these Atari early plcc chips? I got mine out by buying a PLCC puller and then filing the ends down a bit to make them thin enough to get under the edges. Once you can get the fingers in underneath them they seem t...

Just to prove that I'm not totally dead

There might be a way, if I remember correctly, where the HDMI-board could sit pass-through between the motherboard and the original STE GST-MCU. Yeah, I also think it's doable. Instead of emulating the shifter it'd just read the RGB output pins, hsync, and vsync, and act as a traditional scandouble...

Great to see more developers getting interested in retro programming! I'm looking forward to seeing what you create - and which tools you decide to use.

Just ordered mine from the store... I'm looking forwarding to getting involved this time around. Better late than never!

You have good taste in music. 2 Unlimited are fantastic.

Dungeon Master - great choice!

Mono can do 640x400, but I assume would need a new shifter to cope with moving that to 4 and 16 colours. The shifter doesn't care what the resolution is, only the colour depth. It's the MMU/Glue controlling hsync, vsync, and the number of shifter LOADs per line that decides the video frame paramete...

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Mon May 27, 2019 2:11 pm

I didn't mention 800 lines, only 200 and 400...

Right, I was only mentioning it because you were talking about wanting to increase the vertical density rather than the horizontal. Since 400 lines is already possible, I assumed you meant 800 lines vertical.

You can only double the horizontal or vertical rate though - and 640x800 seems just as silly as 1280x200. Although 1280x400 in mono might be alright, it'd have the same weird aspect ratio as medium rez, only with a font that isn't designed for it. If you really wanted to get an 800-line mode, it cou...