pay_c Posted September 4, 2003 Report Share Posted September 4, 2003 300 ??!!?? *giggling mode on*yeahyeahyeah !!! cooooolHaving displayed the 64 pots on one row! *giggling mode off*coooool... its getting better and better (and more bad for my purse) ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 displaying all pot values - a nice example, yes :)I just have evaluated what I said - good results - here two quick hacks:40x2556x25In reality it looks better, the resolution of my digicam reduces the quality, and it's especially a rectangle frame on my TV and not a trapezoid ;-)56x25 characters are the absolute maximum (concerning speed, memory, realtime behaviour)Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Man I have WAY too many questions here hehehehehWhat's the story with ROM fonts? How are they used? I'd love to do menus using the character set, like in those old DOS apps... But I would rather lots of blocks and lines and special characters, than both uppercase and lowercase alphanumeric characters... Having the whole alphabet there twice seems such a waste, those characters could be musical notes, or bar graphs or menu icons etc... Can the character sets be changed? (R.O.M. implies 'no', I guess) Could say two (or 3 or four etc) MBHPTV modules be used on one tv screen by somehow offsetting the sizes and positions of the images and mixing them? This could be seriously cool, and a (kinda clunky) way to increase resolution... Say you could have 4 cores, each displaying on one corner of the screen...Too many ideas! Too many questions!! I'm gonna explode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilo Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 for ROM font, I think we can change them? they are include in the asm file, and the "video" memory is fill with the ascII code of the character : 56*25 = 1400 byte of memory.for the multiple core way.... mmm I think it may be hard to synchronized... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Exactly! :)Every character set which consists of 256 characters allocates 2k, so you could store 8 different sets in flash and assign it to different scanline sections.A synchronization between multiple cores isn't realistic for this application. Main reason: the "goto" instruction which is required to poll a flag or a signal takes two cycles. This results to a 1-cycle error which will be visible on screen (jittering scanlines).It was a challenge to solve the jitter problem in the existing code - fortunately I found a solution which compensates the error (-> H_SYNC macro)For external, asynchronous signals a deterministic compensation isn't possible.Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven_C Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 actually, I'm not sure if the daft punk album is really called discovery... I don't know what gave me that impression, I just looked, and it just says "daft punk" on the cover, and it is silver and multicoloured, and not silver and brown, like the old one. BTW it is on Virgin records, and I got the Vinyl LP edition ;D ! Sorry to get so off topic!! bye ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ordneren Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 This is sweet... I imagine a 5" monitor in my midibox instead of the lcd, those could be had quite cheap i figure 8)With... uhm, say a charactherset for animated knobs, for displaying the position of the encoders.I could do such a set i figure, i used to do a lot of pixel graphics on my trusty old amiga and in DPIIe on pc ;DWhat's the format? Where are the tools? :)- thorsten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillesdeshays Posted September 29, 2003 Report Share Posted September 29, 2003 On an electroni french magazine, there is a schematic for :Speaking PIC !!!!you load some ".wav" (without header) into a 24c256.....and the PIC (with a simple resistor network DAC) outs your audio file !!!!so nice !I imagine a speaking "On TV" mega Mios BOX !!!!!!!!I can scan the whole schematics ...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilo Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 yeah!!!!!! I can write tool for the wave stuff if you want :) and I want that in my future midibox C4 clone! which magazine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillesdeshays Posted September 30, 2003 Report Share Posted September 30, 2003 hey Pilo don't spend money .......i'll put it online this nite ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pay_c Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Just crazy people around here ;D ;) ;D ;D :o :P 8) ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillesdeshays Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 i think it just begin to be interresting ........... ??? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted October 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 dito.... ;-)ordneren: just wait for the next release (after my holidays), it will make clear how to create customized/animated fonts. In the meantime you could already play with the script in the utils directory, but it requires a paint program which supports the .xpm format (support for the windows-specific .bmp format is planned for the future)Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillesdeshays Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 so fun to play :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: )))))))))))))))))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pay_c Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 bmp ? Just dont believe it...OK, lets get all this together:We do have:A TV connected, with whatever animated fonts on it, playing some .wav file ("MBHP ruuuuuuulz"), some flashing LEDs, some moving Motorfaders, flickering LCDs (naturally dozens of those), a few SIDs in that box ............ a yeah, and we control the whole studio over MIDI.... ... ... 8) gonna be a looooong soldering session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillesdeshays Posted October 3, 2003 Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 with all this stuff .....we will play to pacman with midiboxes !!... and if your girl friend is coming .... :" No .. i'm not playing ....... look ! i make music !" ...... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted October 3, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2003 Don't understand me wrong: I'm not interested in programming a .wav player, it's too boring and the result wouldn't be very useful for making music. But feel welcome to program this by yourself ;-)Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analouge Posted March 16, 2004 Report Share Posted March 16, 2004 It's maybe a very stupid question, coz everyone seems to know the answer, so I'd rather ask and seem stupid than never get the answer... ???OK - I'm fresh in this forum, and haven't yet built anything of the stuff in here. I stumbled across this page searching for SID stuff. I had heard that enthusiasts still made use of the chip, so I wondered how, and I got my answers in here, so I decided to build my own SID synth + + - all depends on the thickness of my wallet - heh wich seems to be rather slim at the moment, so I'll just settle for planning the projects for now. ;DWell - the question. What is the TV thing used for? Is it an alternative to the LCD's? :-[thanks for sending me the forum account info Thorsten! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pay_c Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 Yeah, it was intended to be sometime.The current state is that it just prints some "MIOS" message on the screen.As the resolution won´t be to high and it definitely will stay black/white it´s just something like a bigger LCD. TK is stuffed up with work at the moment (MBSeq / AOUT and other things) so this is some "some other time" candidate at the moment I guess.Greetz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheOnlyOne Posted March 31, 2004 Report Share Posted March 31, 2004 Yo TK man is is possible to use a bank stick as a ram stick sort of thing?RegardsSteven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted April 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2004 in this application: noBest Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest djrazz Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 On an electroni french magazine, there is a schematic for :Speaking PIC !!!!you load some ".wav" (without header) into a 24c256.....and the PIC (with a simple resistor network DAC) outs your audio file !!!!/quote]what if this was used to implement a sampler type module i see alot of mixers drum machines with dedicated sounds on a pad seems like an easy clone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timofonic Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 TK: Any news about this? What about hires using bigger pic? What about colour? What about VGA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted July 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 In the meantime I had some fun with VGA on my Spartan III board... no need for PIC hacking anymore ;-)Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timofonic Posted July 22, 2005 Report Share Posted July 22, 2005 What do you mean? Then are true the rumours out there that midibox will use FPGA technology in the future? That could be too interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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