Re: SPARCStation VSIMM

Hi Riccardo,

On Mon 1. Nov 2021 at 23:33, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Michael wrote:
> > There are a few other options to get 24bit graphics on an ss20,
> > although they're also mostly made of unobtainium:
>
> I have also here on storage a strange card by Parallax, which is both
> 24bit (but I could get it to run only on solaris 2.5, the drivers on 2.6
> showed some artifacts, but I confirmed working) plus video acquisition.
> It is a double-board, but vertically stacked, so it uses only one sbus
> slot.I could watch TV through a tuner inside a window, IIRC, like I did
> on the Apple Quadra AV.
> It has 4 large LSI chips plus a custom hardware JPEG codec.


Completely unrelated to your question: I have this little pet project where
I collect the PROMs for the various SUN frame buffers and among other
things extract their logos.  See here if you’re interested:

https://github.com/1k5/sun-fb-logos

I don’t think I have the card you mentioned.  Would you be willing to
contribute?  The git repository contains a howto document that describes
the process - it is very simple of you have a SunOS/Solaris install or a
serial connection.

Cheers,
Malte

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