"you know what I'd do if I designed my own video card? two CGA cards at the same time."
the composite waveforms are close but not an exact match.
but how can I tell if the colors are right? like exactly right?
with this cute little vector scope! it measures the phase of the color signal relative to the color burst.
people are asking how, since normally these cards occupy the same IO address and RAM address. well, the Gremlin is custom programmed to use the addresses normally used by MDA, since those cards can coexist!
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i've been thinking about digital counters for state machines lately. probably because of the interesting counter design that i found in the IBM CGA card (schematic below). 🧵
but back to a basic digital counter. it's simple, right? you just count up in binary. 000->001->010->011->etc. but there are some disadvantages of doing it this way.
in digital logic, be it in an FPGA or discrete TTL chips, the basic idea of a design using synchronous logic is that you have flip flops that store your "current state" and then combinational logic that take the current state and generate the "next state".
did you know that just 5 miles from the shining skyscrapers, the overpriced single family homes, and the congested freeways of Silicon Valley is a real, bona-fide 19th century ghost town? 🧵
it's called Drawbridge, California, and it was built around a railroad drawbridge located in wetlands out in the middle of the San Francisco bay.
it all started when the original drawbridge was built in the 1880s. in the days before remote control, a tender had to live onsite and operate the bridge, opening it for ships and closing it for trains.