Friday, October 6, 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 screen redraw after coming out of standby

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One of the things that is really annoying me is that the Ubuntu screen doesn't redraw itself properly when coming out of screen saver or...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

TMS9918A added graphics mode 2 with 50 transistors

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It's interesting to read up on the history of the TMS9918 and how they added the "super pattern graphics mode" aka Graphics Mo...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Writing to both the Third Millenium Arcade Board and the Super Sprite.

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I wanted to write to the Third Millenium Arcade Board and the Super Sprite, but there's just one problem: The Super Sprite has its addr...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Copy the Apple ii text screen to the Third Millenium Arcade Board

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So I thought I'd see if I could copy the apple ii's text screen to the tms9918. Once I've loaded the font into the tms9918 mem...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

Fun with TMS9918 fonts on the Third Millenium Arcade Board

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So you have to upload fonts to the TMS9918 to get it to display anything textwise. I came across this great thread about ti fonts by s...
Friday, September 15, 2017

Disassembling the VDPTEST program for the Third Millenium Enginnering Arcade Board

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So I thought I'd have a look at what the VDPTEST program actually does. Doing a PR#1 and LOAD VDPTEST and LIST gets me: ]LOAD VDPT...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Samsung 171v and gddccontrol

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There's no monitor file for the Samsung 171v (SAM0063.xml)l in ddccontrol-db, but there is a listing for the Samsung 173s in the (SAM00A...