From: magicpenguin_at_torpedobird.com
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 18:32:42 PST
I forget off hand, but does the PCMCIA card (forget the name of that
too!) do colour? I was pretty sure it was just greyscale, but if not,
that would make putting a colour screen together much easier.
Porting the API would be cool too, although it would lose some of the
newton "charm"...
-- [benjamin.wojtyna | bwojtyna.at.torpedobird.com] [ torpedobird.designs | http://torpedobird.com ] [ aim: thinkpenguin | ebay: torpedobird ] On Mar 2, 2004, at 9:25 PM, Jeff Sheldon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:59:57PM -0600, Spacelord Carpman wrote: >> The graphics hardware on the newton itself is incapable of generating >> the signals a color LCD wants to see. It's not a question of software. > > Right. This would require additional hardware and some software > inclusions for even basic support. Getting the video to display on > something other than the LCD (where the data can be managed) has > already > been done (composite video via PCMCIA), but adding in hardware-level > support for a color LCD and a software "color toolbox" would be an > enormous undertaking. The time would be better spent porting the > NewtonOS > APIs to other hardware. Don't let this stop anyone though. ;) > > > -Jeff > -- -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
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