Waaaaaaaaaaaay out there, but an idea nonetheless...

[xlar54]

Im curious about the PC's USB port... or any other port capable of reading the signals generated by the C128's RGBI port.  Consider..

If you could build an interface to connect the RGBI port to a PC via USB or some other available port on the PC, serial, parallel, whatever... then write a driver to reads the input and decode via software to display the C128's 80 col screen in a window on the PC?  If it could be done, then you no longer have to deal with hardware devices to make this work.

I dunno what the voltages are on the RGBI port, but its digital data... something that ought to be readable.

Ideas?

[xlar54]

Ah what the heck... I might as well get one...

http://home.comcast.net/~kkrausnick/c128-vga/c128-vga.html

[Blacklord]

Ah what the heck... I might as well get one...

http://home.comcast.net/~kkrausnick/c128-vga/c128-vga.html

The output looks nice & clean. Did you get one of these ?

As an aside, I wish someone was making new ram expansion units.

Lance

[Andrew Wiskow]

As an aside, I wish someone was making new ram expansion units.

Could this be Mangelore's next project?  

-Andrew

[xlar54]

Mangalore is one sharp fellow.  Id like to see a device that uses the serial bus, but can read/write to SD cards as if they were 1541/1571/1581 drives.  THAT would rock.

[Andrew Wiskow]

Mangalore is one sharp fellow.  Id like to see a device that uses the serial bus, but can read/write to SD cards as if they were 1541/1571/1581 drives.  THAT would rock.

I think Mangelore has mentioned that he's in the planning stages of something along those lines...  

-Andrew

[Mangelore]

Mangalore is one sharp fellow.  Id like to see a device that uses the serial bus, but can read/write to SD cards as if they were 1541/1571/1581 drives.  THAT would rock.

Isn't that what the 1541-III does?

http://www.hobby.nl/~commodore-gg/innovatie_1541III_eng.htm