Text on a VGA screen


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    Hello all.
    Has anyone seen or heard of anything that will allow a PIC to put some text on a VGA or similar screen? Even a composite video screen would be OK.
    I don't mean just a crawler across the bottom of the display but something like 16 or so lines of 40 characters?
    Peter Moritz.
    Up the bush, Western Plains,
    New South Wales,
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    Don't think a PIC is fast enough to produce VGA. You may want to look at the Parallax Propeller. It has VGA and Composite video built into it.

    Dave

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    Hi,

    See this link:
    http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/index.php

    Best regards,

    Luciano

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    Hi,

    This was the best I have found. Here is the post;

    http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ighlight=video

    Works very well.

    Regards,
    Bob

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    Take a look here

    http://www.dontronics-shop.com/micro-vga.html

    Also have LCD displays as well
    Keith

    www.diyha.co.uk
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    I did use one ezVga board, the board use 5 Volts PS and use serial commands. I write on vga screen in color both text and graphic. The only negative, you cannot save screen.

    http://www.multilabs.net/ezVGA_SM.html

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    Hello,

    Look at the BoB3 and BoB4 boards offered by www.decadenet.com. It looks like they will do what you want to do.

    BobK

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